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Update from the “Towards Sustainable Total Sanitation” West Africa workshop

Tuesday, 12th of November, was the first day of the “Towards Sustainable Total Sanitation” West Africa workshop. It has proven to be a real success with around 70 participants from 16 different countries coming together. About 40% of the participants come from the NGO sector, 35% from government, around 20% from international organisations and 5% from the donor community.

Published on: 14/11/2013

The workshop was officially opened by the Minister of Environment, Mr. Raphel Edou on behalf of the Ministry of Health, and the Minister of Decentralization, Mr. Isidore Gnonlonfoun. This was followed by some wonderful vibrant ethnic dances from Benin which helped set the mood for the day. 

The introduction of the workshop itself was then given by Juste Nansi, the IRC director in Burkina Faso, who focused on the objectives and programme overview per day. Throughout the day, a number of presentations took place, presenting successes and challenges around programme implementation. The presentations focused on three aspects:

  1. records of CLTS implementation in the field with a focus on Ghana, Niger, Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso;
  2. sharing experiences on leader-driven total sanitation from Benin, Burkina Faso and Liberia and also one experience on women-driven total sanitation; and
  3. other examples of approaches in rural sanitation, including evidence from Guinea Bissau, Burkina Faso, community empowering in the Democratic Republic of Congo and social marketing in Liberia.

In between the presentations, discussion took place around institutional, political, social and technical issues related especially to the sustainability of the work currently being done. All in all, it was very fruitful day with much sharing and learning. This will lead well into the second day where more focus shall be placed on ways to integrate programmes into sustainable sanitation services.

Please see the links below for more information.

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