Papua New Guinea is off-track in meeting its Millennium Development Goals for sanitation because of lack of government investment. CLTS has proved a success in some areas and, with support from NGOs has reached over 400 communities in 15 of the provinces so far.
Dirty water and poor hygiene are silent killers
that account for the deaths of 80,000 children under five, each year, in the South East Asia and Pacific region alone, says a new report authored by the University of Technology, Sydney.
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.
In Papua New Guinea, CLTS implementation has started, without Stuart Jordan of the RWSSP (Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Programme), who started the project, having had any prior formal training. Here, he describes how it worked and how he went about training others.
A CLTS training of trainers course, was carried out in two locations in the Eastern Highlands Province of PNG to build the capacity of non-state actors, health staff and government district staff in hygiene and sanitation promotion.
Read about the background, objectives, outcomes and future plans of the CLTS pilots in PNG
Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) based approaches to sanitation improvement are spreading in Timor-Leste. Staff from international and local NGOs, UNICEF, and government agencies have taken part in CLTS trainings and most of these organizations are now either financing or implementing CLTS interventions. Furthermore, both larger supported USAID and AusAid programs in Timor-Leste are now only supporting non-subsidy based approaches. Despite the growing implementation of CLTS in Timor-Leste, most of the current interventions are pilot projects rather than large-scale programs.
