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Community-Led Total Sanitation: Plan International’s Experience

Community-Led Total Sanitation: Plan International’s Experience. By: Tezera Fisseha Plan Ethiopia. Presented at The Second African Conference on Sanitation and Hygiene 18–20 February 2008, Durban, South Africa. Introduction. Plan is a Child-Centered Community Development Organization

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Community-Led Total Sanitation: Plan International’s Experience

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  1. Community-Led Total Sanitation: Plan International’s Experience By: Tezera Fisseha Plan Ethiopia Presented at The Second African Conference on Sanitation and Hygiene 18–20 February 2008, Durban, South Africa

  2. Introduction • Plan is a Child-Centered Community Development Organization • Program approach focuses on Community empowerment including sanitation and hygiene. • Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) introduced in plan program areas in South East Asia in early 2000, to Africa in 2007.

  3. Rationales • It is about total sanitation • It is community-led – it is an effective community empowerment process • It is about changes in people's attitude/behavior and practices • It is about shifting power relationships between communities and experts- communities are mentors and actors NOT learners • It is paradigm shift from counting number of pit latrines to counting the number of ODF villages. • It triggers immediate actions, Collective

  4. Implementation & progress • Community self analysis of sanitation and hygiene behaviors /practices facilitated by trained facilitators

  5. Visual situation analysis

  6. Communities themselves decide to end open defecation

  7. Community action plan

  8. Actions Social/Community Engineers

  9. Progresses and achievements • In Plan Ethiopia, operation areas, many villages (50 to 80 households each) aggressively implementing CLTS • At least 100 villages have achieved 100% coverage plus improvements in hygiene behavior. • Fura, with 21 villages, achieved and declared ODF environment

  10. Fura ODF celebration: Recognition

  11. SNNPR Health Bureau Deputy Head handing over certificate Plan Ethiopia staff members with awardees • Recognition

  12. Conclusion • Works best • where there is conducive policy and strategy environment • where PHC infrastructure is strong • Demands paradigm shift • Organizational culture/behavior • New competencies and skills • Requires redefining experts’ JDs/TORs • Not number of latrines but of ODF villages

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