A global meeting of UNICEF Sanitation Specialists was held in New York in 2008, with the intention of strengthening global programming and guidance in community based sanitation (CBS). The deliberations led to an agreement on the need for greater coherence and consistency in programming across regions; a logical starting point was a common terminology and agreed set of principles upon which such programming would be based. A new terminology for UNICEF’s approach to community based sanitation was developed that describes the various approaches and details the non-negotiable principles that form the basis of their methodology.
