Resources: Case studies, children

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  • Ending open defecation in rural Pakistan

    Plan Pakistan with the help of a local partner, Integrated Regional Support Programme (IRSP), and supported by UNICEF is working to change the state of sanitation in Pakistan. CLTS is used to trigger communities but in order to sustain demand, Plan’s local partners remain in contact the communities through community resource persons. Three resource persons conduct follow on hygiene sessions. Additionally, the electronic and print media are utilized in order to ensure communities do not slip back to open defecation and keep on climbing up on sanitation ladder.

  • Hope out of conflict – How sanitation plays a vital role in protecting women and children from sexual violence in DRC

    Working in the North-Kivu province of DRC, the Programme de Promotion de Soins Santé Primaires is using an integrated and holistic approach that includes CLTS to address the linked problems of sexual violence and sanitation which affect women and children. Adopting a CLTS approach, and working in schools and health clinics, maternal and child health in the area has improved, and the increase in household latrines have reduced the vulnerability of women. In addition, through establishing community protection committees, survivors of sexual violence are able to speak out, receive counselling and seek justice.

  • Children’s involvement in CLTS: A case study of Oboyambo community in central region of Ghana

    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

  • Girls as Natural Leaders in School

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

  • Workshop on School-led Total Sanitation (SLTS) and children's involvement in CLTS

    Between the 23rd and the 25th August 2010, twenty participants from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, the Netherlands, Uganda, the UK and Zambia gathered in Nairobi to discuss School-led Total Sanitation (SLTS) and children’s involvement in Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS). The aim of the workshop was to gather existing experience in these areas, as well as to brainstorm on key issues and ways forward. The event also gave an opportunity for practitioners from different countries and organisations interested in the role of children and schools in CLTS to network and make linkages for follow up.

  • Children's involvement in CLTS: A case study of Oboyambo Community in Ghana

    Short note by Daniel Sarpong, Plan Ghana, describing children’s involvement in CLTS in one community in the Central Region of Ghana.

  • Children /School Led Total Sanitation: experiences from India and Cambodia

    This paper by Anupma Verma of Knowledge Links, India, describes her experience of triggering CLTS with children in schools and villages. She gives examples of how children have acted as change agents in Himachal Pradesh, Uttrakhand and in some other states of India. She also incorporates her recent experience of triggering CLTS with children in Cambodia.

  • Igniting Little Minds for Total Sanitation

    Note by Amrit Mehta of Knowledge Links, India, on his experience of CLTS triggering with children in schools as well as in villages. It shows that children can act as a powerful agents of change within communities.

  • Community Approaches to Total Sanitation: Case studies from India, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Zambia

    This Field Note discusses the evolution of sanitation programming in UNICEF and the origins of CATS (Community Approaches to Sanitation). It examines each of the CATS essential elements and explores their implementation through country case studies. The case studies illustrate a range of methods under the CATS umbrella:

    • Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in Sierra Leone and Zambia
    • School-Led Total Sanitation (SLTS) in Nepal; and
    • the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) in India.

  • Child-to-Child Hygiene Behavior Change (Bangladesh)

    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.

  • School-led Total Sanitation seems unstoppable (Nepal)

    SLTS has been implemented in Nepal since 2005. The approach incorporates the basic elements of the School Sanitation and Hygiene Education (SSHE) programme, the reward and revolving fund aspects of the Basic Sanitation Package (BSP), and the participatory tools and techniques of Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS). In the 15 districts of Nepal where UNICEF is active, SLTS is reaching out to 60,000 households with 300,000 people, with leadership coming from 200 schools.

  • The Child to Child Approach in Community Led Total Sanitation

    The Child-to-Child Approach is an educational process that links children’s learning with taking action to promote the health, wellbeing and development of themselves, their families and their communities. This case study by Afrianto Kurniawan describes the application of the child to child approach in CLTS in Indonesia.

  • Vigilance by young girls and women: The Gandhian way of persuasion

    by Anupma Verma, Knowledge Links, India

    One pager on how women and girls in Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Uttrakhand have used a Gandhian approach for persuading those who continue to defecate in the open to change their behaviour.

  • Triggering in Primary Schools in Indonesia

    by Afrianto Kurniawan

    One pager on how to trigger in schools based on experiences in Indonesia.

  • Triggering in schools

    by JP Shukla, Knowledge Links, India

    One pager on triggering in schools in the states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Meghalaya in India.