In many communities, soap placed at handwashing stations disappears because goats (or other animals) eat it. Communities in Malawi have found a simple but innovative way to prevent this.
Shared by Noel Khunga, Environmental Health Officer, Malawi.
Poignant case study on why harmonisation of approaches between all players involved in CLTS in a given context is vital for success and how NGO activities (however well intended) can end up undermining local government.
Read the case study by Michael Kennedy, EWB Canada in Malawi
The Pan African CLTS Programme ‘Empowering self-help sanitation of rural and peri-urban communities and schools in Africa’ aims to (1) to reduce infant and child morbidity and mortality in 8 African countries and (2) to empower rural and peri-urban communities through the use of CLTS/ School Led Total Sanitation (SLTS) and Urban Community Led Total Sanitation (UCLTS).
“Cette activité est le meilleur héritage qu’on puisse laisser à ses enfants” disait Chaibou Moussa, chef de village de Dan Gora (Dungass, Zinder, Niger) où l’ATPC a été mise en œuvre.
En savoir plus sur l’ATPC en Niger dans cette étude de cas
Short note on the ODF celebrations in Kyalugondo Parish, Luwero District on the 19th July 2012, during which over 3,000 households in nine villages were certified.
NRSP (National Rural Support Programme) and Plan Pakistan came are working together on a WES project that targets 430,000 people in twenty five Union Councils of District Chakwal over three years to safeguard and protect their health from water, sanitation and hygiene related diseases. The main components of the project are CLTS and SLTS. On June 21, 2012 a joint visit of NRSP, Plan Pakistan and PHED (Public Health Engineering Department) teams was arranged to four villages which had become ODF.
Key insights on urban CLTS in Nanded, prepared after the workshop on urban CLTS that took place in March 2012. By Suranjana Gupta, independent consultant. (June 2012)
Learning Note on the application of urban CLTS in Nanded, Maharashtra, India, prepared by Suranjana Gupta, independent consultant for Knowledge Links, Delhi. (March 2012)
