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Regional Workshop on CLTS in the South East Asia and Pacific Region

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.

World Toilet Day: What would you do without a loo?

The19th November 2009 is World Toilet Day, a day to raise awareness of the global sanitation situation and to celebrate something many of us take for granted: a toilet.

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

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.

Golden Poo Awards: Call for Nominations for Hygiene and Sanitation Champions

The Golden Poo Awards are being held on 15th October 2009 as part of Global Handwashing Day. As well as screening and awards for animated films on the themes of hygiene and sanitation, there will be awards made to those who have made outstanding contributions to these fields.

Liquid Dynamics: Rethinking Sustainability in Water and Sanitation @ World Water Week

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Please join the STEPS Centre’s water team led by Dr Lyla Mehta for lunchtime coffee and cake, straight after the Closing Plenary on Friday 21st August.

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

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.

Ending Open Defecation - One community at a time: interview with Dr Kamal Kar on Think Globally Radio

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This Sunday, 7th June, 7pm Central European Time (CET), Think Globally Radio will broadcast Ending Open Defecation – One Community at a time, an interview with Dr. Kamal Kar.

The broadcast can be listened to live at www.thsradio.se. It can also be downloaded via i-tunes (usually a few days after the broadcast). (If you are in Stockholm, you can listen to the show at THS Radio 95.3FM)

Report from the IDS Conference on CLTS (16th-18th December 2008)

From the 16th- to 18th December 2008, IDS held a conference on CLTS which formed part of the DFID-funded project Going to Scale: The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation in which IDS has been engaged in over the last few years. The conference marked the end of the Year of Sanitation 2008 and presented some of the research findings, as well as being an opportunity to share and learn from experiences of CLTS / sanitation with a wide audience from around the world and to tease out implications for wider development agendas.

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