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Dutch-funded programmes collectively develop capacity to free one million people from open defecation. Read more...
Iyua village was declared Open Defecation Free in 2015. A December 2016 visit by a delegation from the Global Sanitation Fund (GSF) traced the lessons and benefits of the village's Open Defecation Free status. Read more...
How can a community-based approach help ensure sustainable urban sanitation services? Read more...
As stated in my last blog, sanitation is more than building a toilet. We are all aware that the MDG target for sanitation will not be reached. By end of 2014, 2.5 billion people did not have access to adequate sanitation which is about one in three of the world's population (WHO/UNICEF Joint... Read more...
The Pan-Africa programme also known as "Empowering self-help sanitation of rural and peri-urban communities and schools in Africa" launched Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Ghana, Niger and Sierra Leone. The project ran from January 2010 to December... Read more...
Communities have an important role to play in sustainable services. In this blog, I present personal highlights reflections from the session on Community-Led Approaches to change in Africa at World Water Week in Stockholm. Read more...
One of the objectives of the Pan-Africa programme is the empowerment of communities through the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) process in eight African countries. Four years into the process and the stories and documents emerging from the countries show that particularly women are playing an... Read more...
Summarising the key findings agreed upon by the participants of the three‐day workshop Read more...
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...
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...
Eline Bakker reflects on practitioners' training in the marketing of sanitation in Nairobi. Read more...