Documentation of good practices

One of the components of the PILS project is the documentation of good practices from local government, village and school levels. The documented cases covered a wide range of subjects, which can be categorised into 3 main themes:

• Good practices at local government level, such as strengthening of human resources at district and sub-county level, monitoring and accountability mechanisms in sanitation and hygiene;
• Good implementation practices for improving sanitation coverage and hygiene behaviour, ranging from the active promotion of sanitation and hygiene by local leaders, strengthening of Villages Health Teams, the application of Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), to the use of community radio for promoting sanitation and hygiene;
• Experiences with Ecological Sanitation (Ecosan) in households and schools.

Most of these cases were documented/co-authored by local stakeholders, be they local government staff (from districts and sub-counties), school teachers or local NGO staff, with the support of the project partners (CARITAS, IRC and NETWAS).