UNICEF

The village of Fadieda was one of 15 villages selected by UNICEF and the Ministry of Environment and Sanitation to change the way it approaches sanitation. Using a community-led approach to sanitation, Fadieda’s villagers have built no fewer than 40 latrines in less than a month and Fadieda has become the first village to receive an ‘Open Air Defecation Free’ status.

Read more and watch a short film about the story of Fadieda

Background, history and progress to date of CLTS in Malawi.

The bi-lingual West Africa Regional Symposium on Sanitation and Hygiene (3-5 Nov 2009, Accra, Ghana) brought together about 140 participants from 17 countries. It was jointly organised by the Resource Centre Network Ghana, UNICEF, West Africa Water Initiative (WAWI), WaterAid, and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, and supported by the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council.

Almost 60 participants from eight countries in the South East Asia and Pacific region gathered last week in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to talk about Community-led Total Sanitation.

UNICEF Malawi

Short overview of CLTS in Malawi, including information on the country’s sanitation situation, the history of CLTS and its progress in Malawi as well as some photos.

UNICEF Sanitation and Hygiene Case Study #6

Account of how Chief Macha has led the CLTS campaign ‘No shit, please! One family, one toilet.’ in Choma and how this, together with the involvement of other traditional leaders, has boosted efforts to transform rural sanitation in the country.

April to June 2010 issue (with articles on how Natural Leaders are rolling out CLTS across Sierra Leone, ODF celebrations in Langurama Kingdom in Kenema District, and School Sanitation Hygiene Education [SSHE] and School-led Total Sanitation [SLTS])

January to March 2010 issue (with articles on new CLTS innovations, the progress of Gbondoma

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.

UNICEF in collaboration with WaterAid held a regional CLTS sensitization and capacity development workshop for West African Anglophone countries in Otukpo, Benue State Nigeria from 1st to 7th of March 2009.

La mission avait pour objet de faire l’évaluation sanitaire finale des 14 autres communautés du Cercle de Kolokani évoluant dans l’approche ATPC en vue de leur certification.