Reflections from the visit to the urban CLTS project in Mathare
As part of the workshop on SLTS and children in CLTS which took place in Augst 2010, participants had an opportunity to visit the urban CLTS pilot in Mathare 10.
Practical guidance on new methods, and thinking on broader issues.
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As part of the workshop on SLTS and children in CLTS which took place in Augst 2010, participants had an opportunity to visit the urban CLTS pilot in Mathare 10.
Participatory Learning and Action Notes Issue 61 focuses on Community-led Total Sanitation in Africa.
Case study of Grupu Mudansa (Group of change), a youth group in the small rural village of Leubraudo in Aileu District, Timor-Leste, who motivated their community to change their defecation practices and become ODF.
Short note by Daniel Sarpong, Plan Ghana, describing children’s involvement in CLTS in one community in the Central Region of Ghana.
Good hygiene is part of total sanitation but deeply embedded cultural beliefs can make behaviour change difficult. Therefore, to plant the seeds of change early, Plan Bangladesh supports a programme of school sanitation and household hygiene education through a child-to-child approach in 83 schools of Sreepur upazila.
The Child-to-Child Approach is an educational process that links children’s learning with taking action to promote the health, wellbeing and development of themselves, their families and their communities. This case study by Afrianto Kurniawan describes the application of the child to child approach in CLTS in Indonesia.
Detailed case study of the first ODF village in Zimbabwe by Peter Sigauke. (July 2010)
PLEASE NOTE: Further blogs on Mathare will now appear on the main blog
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.
The UCLTS team in Mathare is also on Facebook Check out their group!
And you can now watch Story Yetu, a film about urban sanitation and waste management, Community Cleaning services work, youth engagement and entrepreneurship in Mathare 10 online.
Reflections on Plan’s CLTS programme in Homa Bay by Tatiana Thieme (University of Cambridge, based on her visit on June 24th and 25th 2010.
Short note on the ODF celebrations of two villages in Jimma Programme Unit in February 2010. Includes useful statistics on numbers of communities declared ODF since 2007, total population size of these communities and numbers of latrines constructed.