Resources: Case studies, innovation

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)

Note by Modibo Diallo (National Directorate of Sanitation, Mali) and Nicolas Osbert (UNICEF Mali) discussing whether CLTS latrines can be considered ‘improved means of sanitation’ as defined by the JMP standards and what implications this has for the standards adopted by the National Directorate in Mali. Read the note

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.

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.

by Anupma Verma, Knowledge Links, India.

One pager on how a sense of competition amongst village chiefs in Himachal Pradesh, India, has motivated them to work with their communities to achieve ODF.

One pagers are short write-ups by practitioners of innovations, experiences and ways in which particular challenges have been overcome.