About 20 communities in Tillabéri, west Niger, have been declared open defecation-free zones as across the country, very few people have access to proper sanitation. The communities were part of a Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) project, launched in September 2010 in 32 villages in the region by the local office of Plan International.

Read more about the sanitation situation in Niger and efforts to improve it with CLTS in Independent European Daily Express, 10th April 2013