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Short video (1:48 mins) on CLTS in Nigeria, focusing on the community activist Esther Etowa, Community Activist of the organisation WERI (Women Empowerment and Rights Initiative).
From the 29th November to the 3rd of December 2010, IDS, supported by UNICEF, Plan International, WaterAid and WSSCC, held a Regional Sharing and Learning Workshop on CLTS. More than 50 participants from francophone countries in Africa gathered in Bamako in order to share experiences, learn from each other, network, energise and strengthen the approach in the region. A similar workshop was also held in Zambia for anglophone African countries from the 15th to 19th November 2010.
From the 15th to the 19th of November 2010, IDS, supported by UNICEF, Plan International, WaterAid and WSSCC, held a Regional Sharing and Learning Workshop on CLTS. Around 45 participants from 12 anglophone countries in Africa gathered in Lusaka in order to share experiences, learn from each other, network, energise and strengthen the approach in the region. A similar workshop was also held in Mali for francophone African countries from the 29th November to the 3rd December 2010.
Participatory Learning and Action Notes Issue 61 focuses on Community-led Total Sanitation in Africa.
Between the 23rd and the 25th August 2010, twenty participants from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, the Netherlands, Uganda, the UK and Zambia gathered in Nairobi to discuss School-led Total Sanitation (SLTS) and children’s involvement in Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS). The aim of the workshop was to gather existing experience in these areas, as well as to brainstorm on key issues and ways forward. The event also gave an opportunity for practitioners from different countries and organisations interested in the role of children and schools in CLTS to network and make linkages for follow up.
Short note by Daniel Sarpong, Plan Ghana, describing children’s involvement in CLTS in one community in the Central Region of Ghana.
This is a brief account of how Terry Wolfer and Robin (Buz) Kloot of the University of South Carolina stumbled upon CLTS as a solution to problems they encountered whilst working on issues of access to safe drinking water in Uganda. Without training, by just using the CLTS Handbook as their guide, they were able to train local Shepherd’s Heart International Ministries (SHIM) staff and trigger communities in the Buvuma Islands on Lake Victoria.
This paper by Anupma Verma of Knowledge Links, India, describes her experience of triggering CLTS with children in schools and villages. She gives examples of how children have acted as change agents in Himachal Pradesh, Uttrakhand and in some other states of India. She also incorporates her recent experience of triggering CLTS with children in Cambodia.
Note by Amrit Mehta of Knowledge Links, India, on his experience of CLTS triggering with children in schools as well as in villages. It shows that children can act as a powerful agents of change within communities.
Detailed case study of the first ODF village in Zimbabwe by Peter Sigauke. (July 2010)
