Resources: urban

Lessons, challenges and opportunities from piloting CLTS in a small town of Lekpongunor in the Dangme West District of Ghana. A paper by Nii Lantei Wellington, Eugene Larbi and Joyce Appiah, presented at the 22nd Mole Conference under the theme: Towards Decentralised WASH Services Delivery: Challenges and Lessons. (August 2011)

Community Cleaning Services have a new Facebook page where you can follow their work and catch up with the latest news

Article in AllAfrica.com that raises the question of how CLTS can go to scale in Nigeria and argues that it will need to be extended to the urban context in order to address the increasing urban migration and growing urban population. In the urban context, CLTS needs to link with town planning and requires a lot of different stakeholders to work together.

Empowering self-help sanitation of rural and peri-urban communities and schools in Africa
Programme partners: Plan Nederland + Plan WARO and RESA, IRC, IDS

Programme period: July 2009 – June 2014 (5 years)

Total budget: € 8,452,000 (including € 2,852,000 as investments by the target group)

Programme country background and overview of progress: (these will be continually updated)

West Africa:

• Ghana

Interesting short documentary about informal sanitation entrepreneurs in Nairobi’s slums which describes a similar situation to that found in Mathare 10, Nairobi, where Plan is doing an urban CLTS pilot

Amnesty International has just published a report on women’s experiences in the slums of Nairobi which shows that women living in informal settlements are particularly affected by the lack of adequate access to sanitation facilities. In addition to difficulties relating to lack of privacy, they face threats to their safety. Lack of toilet facilities in or near the home means that women are vulnerable to rape and other gender-based violence when they go for open defecation or visit public facilities during the night.
(July 2010)

PLEASE NOTE: Further blogs on Mathare will now appear on the main blog

Below you will find an ongoing blog about CLTS in the urban setting of Mathare 10, Nairobi, Kenya in which Sammy Musyoki of Plan Kenya documents and reflects on progress as the pilot unfolds.

The UCLTS team in Mathare is also on Facebook Check out their group!

And you can now watch Story Yetu, a film about urban sanitation and waste management, Community Cleaning services work, youth engagement and entrepreneurship in Mathare 10 online.

Kalyani is a planned town near Kolkata with a population of 82,000. It is seen as a city ‘made for middle class people’. However, the 52 slums around the city house almost 50% of the city’s population. Many of the slums’ inhabitants are migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh etc. Whilst some of the slums are more recent, some are as old as 50 or 60 years, and the majority have no toilet facilities.

In the past, health and development programmes always counted the number of toilets and households, and it was the role of the councillors to decide who would get a toilet.

Using CLTS type methodologies, Plan Egypt mobilized the population of Cairo South for waste management and a cleaner living environment.