PhATS Newsletter 1: April 2015

The supply component of the Philippines Approach to Total Sanitation (PhATS) aims to strengthen local supply chains for sanitation and hygiene goods and services and encourage Sanitation Marketing (SanMark). Through SanMark, suppliers and service providers market their goods and services to rural households, with the aim of increasing demand, improving
supply and achieving greater sales and profits.
Across Typhoon Yolanda-affected areas, the Philippines Department of Health (DoH) and Department of Education (DepEd), The League of Mayors and 46 LGUs are working in tandem with UNICEF and its 12 implementing NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) Partners to improve access to and use of sustainable sanitation through a strategy called the Philippines Approach To Total Sanitation (PhATS).
This is a report on the completion of the CLEAN J (CLEAN Jakarta) project, sharing approaches, good practices, learnings and next steps from the two-year project.
In 'Gathering the Nation's Jewels: the sanitation fightes from all over nation', World Vision Indonesia brings together a collection of stories featuring sanitation champions from the CLEAN J Project.
Download Gathering the Nation's Jewels
World Vision helped to kick off the Commonwealth Queens Baton relay in the capital of Solomon Islands, yesterday together with UNICEF. The Honiara leg of the relay began outside of the capital at Kakabona beach where a number of children from a World Vision Area Program community, Lord Howe community, gathered together to sing with World Vision staff about improving health and sanitation around Honiara. Following the performance the children passed the baton over to officials and the relay commenced.
World Vision is piloting CLTS in Northern Karamoja to address the dire sanitation situation in one of Uganda's poorest and remotest regions. The Kalimajong population were until recently living as pastoralists but now stay in more permanent settlements. However, the sanitation and hygiene behaviour has remained the same and open defecation is rife.
Read more about how World Vision is using CLTS to address the sanitation challenge in Karamoja.