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NETWAS (2008)

Report from the Second Sanitation Annual Learning Event which looks at Kamuli District’s experience with implementing CLTS.

Plan Ethiopia, and the United Nation’s Children Fund (UNICEF) have signed a cooperation agreement to strategically scale up the application of CLTS for sanitation and hygiene development works in the country.

The project aims to support government initiative to enhance sanitation and hygiene to reach the Universal Access Plan (UAP) and the UN-set Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target.

Mariama Zombo, Community Empowerment Advisor of Plan Sierra Leone describes her experience of CLTS in Sierra Leone, successes, challenges and ways forward.

Njoroge Kamau, Health Advisor of Plan Kenya, Coast has contributed an article on CLTS to the June issue of Health Exchange which focuses on the social determinants of health, what they mean for health workers and how we put this approach into practice. The article describes how Plan Kenya and the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation have used CLTS to successfully address the problems of low sanitation coverage, open defecation and their negative impacts on health. The article gives a good description of how the approach works, as well as its specific application in the Kenyan context.

This update report covers the period from the time CLTS was introduced in Mutoko in November 2008 to the end of March 2009. It highlights the processes and activities undertaken to date, the achievements and challenges as well as lessons learnt. It also gives examples of new tools and innovations to the CLTS process that have emerged in Zimbabwe. Finally, the report will discusses ways forward and in particular how the programme intends to scale up the CLTS approach in the district.

Plan RESA and IDS held a 5 day CLTS workshop in Mombasa, Kenya, from the 9th -13th March 2009.

Howes, Mick and Huda, Enamul (2009)

These three case studies which form part of the IDS research project “Going to Scale?

by Frank Marita and Samuel Musyoki, Plan Kenya (November 2008).

From one Open Defecation Free (ODF) village (Jaribuni in Kilifi District) in November 2007 to four as of 19th November 2008, with close to 40 villages awaiting verification to be declared ODF, it is now clear that CLTS is steadily becoming a sanitation success story in Kenya.