Key resource: Tales of Shit: Community-Led Total Sanitation in Africa (PLA 61)

Participatory Learning and Action Notes Issue 61 focuses on Community-led Total Sanitation in Africa.
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Participatory Learning and Action Notes Issue 61 focuses on Community-led Total Sanitation in Africa.
Short note on the ODF celebrations in Kyalugondo Parish, Luwero District on the 19th July 2012, during which over 3,000 households in nine villages were certified.
The Government of Indonesia launched ‘Sanitasi Total Berbasis Masyarakat’ (STBM) which means Community-based Total Sanitation, as their national sanitation strategy in 2008. The strategy has five pillars:
Plan International, Pakistan and UNICEF have jointly launched an “Early recovery programme on Rural Sanitation in flood affected districts of Pakistan” after the devastating floods of 2010. The programme is based on CLTS.
Short case study of Khawaja Farooq and Mohammad Ismail who, with the support of the Pakistan Rural Support Programme and Plan Pakistan have become sanitation entrepreneurs helping to move their communities up the sanitation ladder.
From birth, children deserve the rights to survive, to thrive and to grow to their full potential. Unfortunately, most children from poor families do not enjoy these rights due to their caregivers’ lack of effective parenting knowledge and the inability to access adequate health and educational services. As a result, children from low income families and communities are likely to start school late, with limited language skills, health problems and socio-emotional problems that interfere with learning.
Valerie Sukura, Juliet Mbayaji, Evelyn Savantia and Dennis Baraza are all 13 years old. They are currently in standard 8 at St Michael’s Children’s Education Centre in Mathare. They remember that before Urban CLTS was introduced in the area, they had to defecate openly in the school compound, inches away from their classrooms or even down by the river. They also admit that plenty times they would go to the toilet and run straight to eat without washing their hands. However, urban CLTS triggering sessions transformed their understanding of sanitation and hygiene and has turned them into eager advocates in their homes and communities.
Tabitha Atai is a mother of four who lives in Mathare 10 and used to be a self-employed tailor. When Urban CLTS was introduced in her area she decided to join since her business was not doing well and she was spending most of her time as a housewife. She is now a full-time community health worker and a facilitator of Urban CLTS and says she has been empowered from a mere housewife to a strong community leader, thanks to Urban CLTS.
In order to address issues of sustainability Plan International Ethiopia SNNP PU has been supporting the setting up Natural Leaders Associations. These associations, which are registered as legal bodies, further work on improving the movement up the sanitation ladder in ODF kebeles.