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Today I learned that shitting is a social business in Ghana. Why construct separate toilets when you can construct one big one and chat and gossip together while shitting? They even told me that sometimes people who really have to take a dump need to ask the chatting people who already finished to clear a spot! I guess this is the alternative to reading the newspaper on the toilet. (by the way, they do have separate toilets for women and men). I love my job ;-)
Mascha Singeling, WASH Advisor, Plan Netherlands
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Institute of Development Studies [IDS] facilitators never seem to run out of participatory facilitation techniques and this time round, discussion themes are developed from participant expectation cards. The themes varied from Natural leaders [interesting, I also picked this up during day 1] , sanitation marketing, children and CLTS, scaling up , gender issues, partnerships and collaborations, overcoming subsidy- among others. Participants are asked to vote for at least 2 themes they are most interested to participate in and from this exercise.
As part of the agenda for day two at the Annual Review meeting of the Pan African CLTS Program, action learning and research has been highlighted as a key component for the program in order to facilitate documentation, experience sharing and scaling up of CLTS. It was also emphasized that action learning is a continuous process; it involves observing, reflecting, documenting and sharing.
After all the country presentations of yesterday and the gallery walks, today is the day to go into further discussions on the challenges we run into in the CLTS program. This was done in focus group discussions. Issues that were discussed are:
The Pan African CLTS program meeting being held in Ghana started very well with exciting experience time of sharing, learning and reflecting from 9 countries namely Ghana, Malawi, Niger, Ethiopia, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda, Sierra Leone and Niger.
The workshop today was a great experience, and a great opportunity to hear about the range of CLTS activities that are happening across Africa and the Plan International countries.
On the 27th of February 2012 the first day of the Second Annual Review Meeting of the Pan African CLTS Program took place. It was a really interesting day in which representatives of all the 8 countries in which the program is being implemented, gave us an update of the progress of their project, their main challenges, opportunities and lessons learned.
Day 1 of the PanAfrican CLTS program inter-country review meeting has just been concluded here in Accra, Ghana. All the 9 implementing countries have shared progress on their projects with challenges and achievements. The impact is amazing; over 450,125 people are living in open defecation free communities across all these countries in 2 years.
From the 27th February to the 1st March, the annual review meeting of the Pan African programme Empowering self-help sanitation of rural and
It is not even one year since the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation (MOPHS) the launched the Open Defection Free Rural Kenya by 2013 campaign. So why the re-launch? Upon reflection, it was clear to key institutional champions within the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, SNV and UNICEF that not much had happened since the launch in May 2011.
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