Resources: events

The third African Conference on Sanitation and Hygiene, AfricaSan 3, took place in Kigali, Rwanda from the 19th to the 21st July 2011. CLTS was very well represented at the conference. Dr Kamal Kar gave a lead address, a thematic session on CLTS in Africa was well attended and included more than 15 speakers from a variety of countries and organisations; and many delegates visited the CLTS exhibition stall so that publications disappeared like hotcakes.

A three-day regional workshop on pro-poor urban sanitation and hygiene organised by IRCm, UNICEF, GTZ, WSSCC, and WaterAid and hosted by the Rwandan Ministry of Health started on the 29th March 2011 in Kigali.The workshop provides a platform for sharing best practices on sanitation and hygiene within regional countries.

Read about the opening of the meeting by the Rwandan Minister of Health

Jon Lane, Executive Director of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSCC) discusses the barriers to progress on water & sanitation and the Millennium Development Goals at the STEPS Centre’s Water & Sanitation Symposium in Brighton, 22 March 2011.

Watch this video

On the 27th January 2011, a one-day orientation workshop on CLTS was held in Patna, Bihar. Organized by the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), DFID supported Sector Wide Approach to Strengthen Health SWASHT Programme and CLTS Foundation, the workshop explored the possibility of introducing CLTS in Bihar. It was inaugurated by the Honourable Minister PHED Sri Chandra Mohan Rai. Dr.

On the 8th February 2010 Robert Chambers gave evidence at the International Development Select Committee on UK Aid to India, speaking about health, nutrition and sanitation in India and specifically referring to CLTS. Read the written evidence he submitted. The evidence will also be available on the Parliament website shortly.

Papers and other forms of participation are invited for the ESRC STEPS Centre conference on 22-23 March 2011, at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University.

On World Toilet Day 19th November 2010, participants at the Regional CLTS Sharing and Learning Workshop in Lusaka produced a short video clip to mark the occasion

Happy World Toilet Day!!!

The 19th of November is World Toilet Day. Surely a good opportunity to celebrate achievements as well as raise awareness of the fact that 2.6 billion people in the world still lack access to proper sanitation?!

From the 29th November to the 3rd of December 2010, IDS, supported by UNICEF, Plan International, WaterAid and WSSCC, held a Regional Sharing and Learning Workshop on CLTS. More than 50 participants from francophone countries in Africa gathered in Bamako in order to share experiences, learn from each other, network, energise and strengthen the approach in the region. A similar workshop was also held in Zambia for anglophone African countries from the 15th to 19th November 2010.

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The AMCOW AfricaSan Awards are dedicated to recognizing outstanding efforts and achievements in sanitation and hygiene in Africa which result in large-scale, sustainable behaviour changes and tangible impacts. They aim at raising the profile of sanitation and hygiene by drawing attention to successful approaches, promoting excellence in leadership, innovation and sanitation and hygiene improvements in Africa, and providing incentives for action beyond 2008 – the International Year of Sanitation.

In the Zambian soap opera Banja on muvitv , CLTS has become a hot topic!

Banja is televised every weekday at 20:00 hrs Zambian time, except Wednesdays when it is shown at 19:00. It is repeated on Sundays as an omnibus from 10:45 -12:00.