Resources: Case studies, Plan

Read Philip Vincent Otieno’s account of the World Toilet Day celebrations in Siaya county, which included songs, dance, drama, comedy and poems to raise awareness of the dangers of open defecation.

Trigger is an Annual Report for the Pan African project Empowering self-help sanitation of rural and peri-urban communities and schools in Africa. It includes background information about the project, overviews of the 8 countries’ activities and progress as well as many interesting photos.

In 2007 Plan International Indonesia (Plan Indonesia) adopted Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) as its only approach for implementing sanitation projects in its 9 Program Unit sites. This paper outlines the process being undertaken to take CLTS to scale, the key factors that have enabled it and the lessons learned so far.

Short case study from Plan Ghana on activities that form part of the Pan Africa Project The case study looks at the involvement and active participation of children in CLTS and SLTS in Oboyambo community, Agona East District of the Central Region of Ghana and concludes that children have an important role to play in the development of

Case study of girls becoming champions of sanitation and hygiene in their school in Sissala West District of the Upper West Region in Ghana

One pager by Amadou Mahamadou of Plan Niger on how to make wood used for latrine construction termite-proof and thus create more sustainable latrines.

As part of the workshop on SLTS and children in CLTS which took place in Augst 2010, participants had an opportunity to visit the urban CLTS pilot in Mathare 10.

Case study of Grupu Mudansa (Group of change), a youth group in the small rural village of Leubraudo in Aileu District, Timor-Leste, who motivated their community to change their defecation practices and become ODF.

Good hygiene is part of total sanitation but deeply embedded cultural beliefs can make behaviour change difficult. Therefore, to plant the seeds of change early, Plan Bangladesh supports a programme of school sanitation and household hygiene education through a child-to-child approach in 83 schools of Sreepur upazila.

Detailed case study of the first ODF village in Zimbabwe by Peter Sigauke. (July 2010)

Celebrations took place in Homabay on 11th May 2010 when a total of 8 villages were declared ODF.

by Philip Vincent Otieno, Program Facilitator, Plan Kenya, Homabay

Brief account of the celebrations in Kochogo where three villages were declared ODF on the 19th April 2010. Contains interesting examples of how the communities overcame challenges like collapsing soil (“Where there is a will, there is a way”!), and how a strong crude slogan has helped to spread the message and change behaviour.