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A study commissioned by Plan International on the sustainability of CLTS programs in Africa revealed that 87% of the households still had a functioning latrine. Read more...
Lessons learnt from the Pan-Africa programme have prompted several countries to turn the sanitation challenges into opportunities for progress. Read more...
Eight African countries are creatively achieving the goals of community led total sanitation programmes (CLTS) including one idea in Malawi where handwashing is monitored according to the health of tree seedlings planted beneath water outlets. Read more...
The 36th WEDC conference that took place from 1 - 5 of July in Nakuru, Kenya, was the first opportunity for IRC to launch its "West Africa Learning and Exchange workshop". This learning event will take place in Cotonou, Benin, from 12th - 14th of November 2013. Read more...
Eline Bakker reflects on practitioners' training in the marketing of sanitation in Nairobi. Read more...
North Tarawa in Kiribati is the first island in the Pacific to be declared open defecation free, thanks to the “Kiriwatsan I Project”. The Ministry of Public Works is implementing this project with technical support from UNICEF and funding from the European Union. In March 2013, North Tarawa... Read more...
Paper written for the Asia regional sanitation and hygiene practition... Read more...
In October 2011 Darren Saywell left the International Water Association (IWA) to join Plan International USA as Director WASH/CLTS. For the past 7 years, Darren was Regional Group and Programmes Director at IWA, responsible for the association’s programmes and presence … Read more...
In rural India, extremes of coercion are being used to encourage toilet use writes Liz Chatterjee in the Guardian’s Poverty Matters blog. Her provocative post has drawn comments from the likes of Robert Chambers, Rose George, Ned Breslin and Erik Harvey. Read more...
The principles of community-led total sanitation are being extended to schools and urban areas in eight African countries.IRC will contribute to a school-led total sanitation (SLTS) component in a broader five-year programme led by Plan Netherlands. Read more...
IRC has partnered with SIMAVI on an innovative project which applies the 5 pillars of the STBM, Indonesia's national sanitation programme. Building on our expertise, we will provide inputs on monitoring, documentation and knowledge management and capacity building of project stakeholders to reach 1... Read more...