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Pictures of CLTS in Sierra Leone

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Sierra Leone

A selection of images of CLTS in Sierra Leone from GOAL Ireland.

AMCOW AfricaSan Awards 2009: Chief Macha from Zambia receives top honour for leadership

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The AMCOW AfricaSan top honor for Leadership has been awarded to His Royal Highness Chief Macha, a traditional and community leader from Zambia who has used his status in a uniquely proactive manner to advocate for improved sanitation, not just in his Kingdom of Tonga which has now attained Open Defecation Free (ODF) status, but also in the wider district and province with a multitude of stakeholders.The African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) is pleased to invite entries for the maiden AfricaSan Awards competition.

From Pilot to National Approach: CLTS in Ethiopia

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Ethiopia

Plan Ethiopia (June 2009)

Short report on the national and regional taskforces for standardizing community-led total sanitation (CLTS) and other community-led approaches to sanitation and hygiene development that have been established in Ethiopia.

Breaking the silence through CLTS- A strategy for empowerment

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Sierra Leone

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

Healthy Places, Healthy People

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Kenya

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.

CLTS Sensitisation and Capacity Development in Anglophone West Africa Regional Workshop Report

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Nigeria

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.

Call for submissions: Contributions to a Participatory Learning Action (PLA) Issue on Community-Led Total Sanitation in Africa

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Contributions are being sought from those working with CLTS (practitioners from NGOs and agencies, governments, Natural Leaders) who would like to contribute an article of up to 2500 words to the forthcoming issue of Participatory Learning and Action on Community-Led Total Sanitation in Africa. Contributions should capture practical experiences of practitioners in CLTS: processes they have been engaged in, achievements, lessons, innovations, challenges, ways forward.

Compte Rendu de la mission du Directeur Régional sur l’évaluation finale des 14 communautés du Cercle de Kolokani évoluant dans l’approche ATPC (Director's Report on the evaluation of 14 communities where CLTS has been triggered in Mali)

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Mali

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.

Update report on CLTS in Mutoko (Zimbabwe)

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Zimbabwe

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.

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