Resources: training

Description of a CLTS training workshop that was jointly organised by Plan Sudan and Goal Ireland in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Health and the Khartoum State Ministry of Health and took place from the 17th to 21st December 2011.

Report from the CLTS Training of District Assembly and other Extension Staff in Community-Led Total Sanitation which was held between the 3rd and the 16th April 2011 in Kasseh-Ada, Dangme East District GAR, Ghana, under the Local Service Delivery and Governance Programme.

This manual intends to guide community facilitators in promoting the CLTS approach for improved sanitation and ensuing benefits. The handbook outlines the background to CLTS as well as its potential in bringing about positive behaviour and enumerates a step by step guide to promoting CLTS. It is hoped that this handbook will inspire trainers, practitioners, managers and policy-makers to ensure high standards of preparation, facilitation and follow up support; and that it will discourage target oriented approaches which degenerate into counting latrines and meeting targets for their construction, instead of assessing with rigorous standards the numbers of communities that truly achieve ODF status.

From the 3rd to 9th May 2011, the first major CLTS training in South Sudan was conducted in Juba The training was co-sponsored by Plan South Sudan Program and UNICEF and facilitated by Philip Otieno from Plan Kenya. Thirty participants from UNICEF, Plan, the Government of South Sudan (GOSS) line ministries such as Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, and Ministry of Community Development, Medair, American Relief Committee (ARC), Population Services International (PSI), Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Goal Ireland, and Intersos took part in the training.

In a bid to foster proper health care in their communities, Partners for Community Transformation (PACT), one of UNICEF’S implementing partners in Sierra Leone, have trained a total of 100 natural leaders in CLTS.
Article in The Torchlight, 12th May 2011

On Friday April 8th, 2011 the Agency for Community Empowerment Participation and Transformation (ACEPT) organized a two-day intensive training in Henai town in Malen chiefdom, Pujehun district, for 30 traditional leaders assembled from towns and villages. The facilitators came from Pujehun District’s Health Management Team. The training, first of its kind, primarily focused on community-led total sanitation designed to step-up awareness and help provide the communities with tools to handle basic health problems within their localities.

In January 2011, Philip Vincent Otieno from the Plan Kenya CLTS Team conducted a CLTS training in East Pokot, sponsored by the Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED). The training was held in Churo town which is mainly inhabited by the semi-nomadic Pokot community whose lives centre around their livestock.

Report from a national CLTS training workshop in Bwiam, Western Province, organised by UNICEF and the Gambian Ministry of Health & Social Welfare.

Report from a Training of Trainer’s workshop carried out by Knowledge Links (India) for the Department of Rural Health Care, Ministry of Rural Development (MRD) and UNICEF Cambodia. Read the brief report or the full version

Short report and photos from a hands-on CLTS Training of Trainers workshop for NGO workers and district officials which took place in Porbander, Gujarat, India, the birthplace of Gandhi, in December 2009.

UNICEF in collaboration with WaterAid held a regional CLTS sensitization and capacity development workshop for West African Anglophone countries in Otukpo, Benue State Nigeria from 1st to 7th of March 2009.

Report by Dr Kamal Kar on the hands-on training workshop jointly hosted by Plan Kenya and UNICEF in Mombasa, Kenya between the 5th and 12th July 2008.