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Amnesty International Report- Insecurity and Indignity: women's experiences in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya

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Amnesty International has just published a report on women’s experiences in the slums of Nairobi which shows that women living in informal settlements are particularly affected by the lack of adequate access to sanitation facilities. In addition to difficulties relating to lack of privacy, they face threats to their safety. Lack of toilet facilities in or near the home means that women are vulnerable to rape and other gender-based violence when they go for open defecation or visit public facilities during the night.
(July 2010)

NEW: Read about the progress of the urban CLTS pilot in Mathare 10, Nairobi

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New feature on the website: Follow the progress of the urban CLTS pilot in Mathare 10, Nairobi, Kenya through the eyes of Sammy Musyoki of Plan Kenya in the Mathare 10 diary which will be regularly updated.

Piloting CLTS in an urban setting: Diary of progress in Mathare 10, Nairobi Kenya

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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.

CLTS in the slums of Kalyani Municipality

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Report on Lessons Learnt and Outcomes of the Sharing Workshop on CLTS held on 26th May 2006 at Kalyani which can claim to be the first place where CLTS was successfully used in an urban context.

Kalyani - CLTS in an urban context

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Kalyani is a planned town near Kolkata with a population of 82,000. It is seen as a city ‘made for middle class people’. However, the 52 slums around the city house almost 50% of the city’s population. Many of the slums’ inhabitants are migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh etc. Whilst some of the slums are more recent, some are as old as 50 or 60 years, and the majority have no toilet facilities.

In the past, health and development programmes always counted the number of toilets and households, and it was the role of the councillors to decide who would get a toilet.

Lessons learnt in urban sanitation in Mauritania

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Mauritania

Lessons drawn from the adaptation of CLTS to the urban context in Mauritania. Eight urban neighbourhoods in the town of Rosso, which has 32,000 inhabitants, are now ODF and 67 more are in the follow up phase.

Community-Led Environmental Project in Cairo

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Using CLTS type methodologies, Plan Egypt mobilized the population of Cairo South for waste management and a cleaner living environment.

Training of Trainers on CLTS with specific focus on Solid Waste Management in Alibag town, Raigad, Maharashtra

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A three day CLTS workshop was organized by Knowledge Links in Alibag Municipal Area of Raigad district in Maharashtra from the 26th to 28th August 2008. The workshop aimed at exposing the participants to the concept and practice of CLTS through hands-on experience. Process of CLTS triggering in an urban context was the main focus of the programme. Solid waste management was underlined as the main sanitation concern in Alibag town.

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The Community Led Total Sanitation approach, introduced in Maharashtra in 2002 with pilot projects in two districts, Ahmednagar and Nanded, proved successful in creating Open Defecation Free (ODF) communities. The success in the pilot districts led to the ODF approach being adopted by all the districts in the state. On becoming totally open defecation free, the Gram Panchayats are given incentives in the form of a reward or Nirmal Gram Puraskar from the government. Currently about 2000+ Gram Panchayats have achieved ODF status.

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