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On Sunday 17th of February the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Knowledge Hub hosted an Africa Rural Sanitation Sharing and Learning Workshop prior to the start of the AfricaSan 5 Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.
Participatory Learning and Action Notes Issue 61 focuses on Community-led Total Sanitation in Africa.
Robert Chambers (March 2009)
These reflections have been provoked by two occasions. The first was in late September/early October last year in India – the Mahatma Gandhi International Convention on Sanitation. The second was AfricaSan5, the fifth biennial African Conference on Sanitation in Cape Town in February this year. The contributions to global warming of these two occasions will have been enormous. For myself, I feel guilt, having been to both. Let me fondly hope this blog leads to good actions which a
The AfricaSan 5 Conference was recently held in Cape Town, South Africa. Every three years it reunites policy-makers, development partners, donors and the private sector to discuss some of the most compelling issues of the sanitation and hygiene sector in order to look for joint learning, new opportunities and shared paths forward. This post presents some of the main discussions about financing the sector in Africa that were featured during the week and concludes with some reflections on how the sector can be financed while leaving no one behind.
Last November UNICEF’s West and Central Africa Regional Office, Supply Division and WASH Programme Division convened a regional sanitation industry consultation in Abuja, Nigeria. The consultation brought together 100+ representatives from industry, financial institutions, governments and development partners. This series of three blogs is based on the discussions held on market shaping – including the current thinking, how it can increase uptake of improved sanitation facilities amongst the poorest households, and how it is being considered at the country level.
This multi-stakeholder statement emerging from the deliberations during the Fifth Africa Conference on Sanitation and Hygiene held in Cape Town, South Africa, February 18-22, 2019, focuses on progress towards achieving the Vision and Commitments of the Ngor Declaration on Sanitation and Hygiene in Africa.
It sets out the key issues of the sanitation and hygiene sector in Africa (see below) and the specific actions to be taken by each stakeholder group including Local Administrative Authorities, Development Partners, Civil Society, and Private Sector.
Following a joint review of rural sanitation approaches UNICEF, Plan International and WaterAid have developed guidance resources on how to design, cost and implement programmes for programme policy-makers, planners and implementers.
Date: 22 February 2019
Time: 8:30AM-9:00AM | Registration
9:00AM-11:00AM | Side event
Venue: Park Inn by Radisson-29 Heerengracht Street, Foreshore (Heerengracht Conference Room)
(This event will be held in English)
Join the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, U.S. Agency for International Development, and UNICEF for a side event on Market-based Rural Sanitation.
Date: Sunday 17th February 2019
Time: 09:30 – 17:00
