WaterAid Australia – Webinar on Sanitation Marketing and Community-led Total Sanitation

The Sanitation Marketing Community of Practice (www.sanitationmarketing.com) managed by WaterAid Australia on behalf of the Australian WASH Reference Group is pleased to announce our fourth webinar! 

Webinar 4: Sanitation Marketing and Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS)

Date: Thursday 7th February 2013

Time: | 8:00am (London) | 9:00am (Geneva) | 11:00am (Nairobi) | 3:00pm (Jakarta, Indonesia) | 7:00pm (Melbourne, Australia) Check my time zone

Presenters: This session will be facilitated by Oliver Jones, Programme Officer, The Global Sanitation Fund (GSF), Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC). Presenters include Ulemu Chiluzi from Plan Malawi and Julian Kyomuhangi from the Government of Uganda.

Good practices in Community-Led Total Sanitation

GOOD PRACTICES IN COMMUNITY-LED TOTAL SANITATION: Plan’s experience in Uganda 2007 – 2010. May 2011. 

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Where it has been introduced, CLTS has been integrated with other development initiatives. Besides ending open defecation, the focus is on a more comprehensive package which includes wastewater management, solid waste disposal, overall hygiene and more. The approach has also been modified in some countries to ‘School-led Total Sanitation (SLTS)’, whereby schools are the prime drivers in achieving ODF status. This has widened the spread of CLTS and its impact, both among adults and children. Plan, Water Aid and UNICEF have become important disseminators and champions of CLTS. Today, it is present in many countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. In sub-Saharan Africa, it has taken root in 28 countries and gained the support of decision makers and professionals, who have recognised it as a successful, cost-effective approach and have issued a declaration to urge governments to take more decisive steps to ensure ODF environments among local communities.

India: Neen gets cleanest panchayat award, Kandror ranks second

Shimla, August 14

Making a significant headway in the state’s rural sanitation project, a community-driven campaign, the Himachal Pradesh government has decided to confer Maharishi Valmiki Sampooran Swachhta Puruskar (MVSSP) to Neen panchayat in Basantpur Block of Shimla district.

Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, who had introduced the reward scheme, will present the cheque to panchayat pradhan Uma Verma tomorrow at the Independence Day function being held at Paonta Sahib in Sirmaur district.

Read all ExpressIndia.com

Ethiopia: Plan Ethiopia’s activities on CLTS

News on Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) activities in Ethiopia is provided in the latest issues of Plan Ethiopia‘s WaSH-AcSearch Newsletter of Action Research for Scaling Up Community-managed Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Services.

The January-March 2008 issue of WaSH-AcSearch features Plan’s participation at AfricaSan, the one day CLTS Sharing and Learning workshop conducted on 17 February in Durban, South Africa, and news on CLTS field visits and training in Ethiopia.

Plan Ethiopia has also published a WaSH-AcSearch Special Edition on CLTS in Jimma in the Oromia region of Ethiopia. It includes four short case stories.

Plan UK – Empowering communities to achieve total sanitation

Plan UK recently launched a handbook on Community Led Total Sanitation to enable communities analyse their sanitation conditions and collectively understand the impact of open defecation on public health and their environment.

About Community Led Total Sanitation Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is an approach that focuses on igniting a change in sanitation behaviour through community participation rather than constructing toilets. It does this through a process of social participation. It concentrates on the whole community rather than on individual behaviours and the collective benefit from stopping open defecation can encourage a more cooperative approach. People decide together how they will create a clean and hygienic environment that benefits everyone.

Read More – Reuters