Resources / Report of the National Roundtable Conference on CLTS in Nigeria

Summary

The National Task Group on Sanitation (NTGS) with support from UNICEF, WaterAid and other stakeholders have been providing the required leadership in scaling up of CLTS in the country through capacity development to enhance the skills of practitioners; monitoring and advocacy to states; coordination; and knowledge management.

As part of the efforts of promoting experience sharing and documentation of CLTS implementation in Nigeria, NTGS organized the first Roundtable Conference on CLTS in October 2009. Based on the active participation of relevant stakeholders and success recorded, it was resolved that the conference should be organized annually as a viable platform for bringing together CLTS practitioners for experience sharing and advocacy to support sanitation development.

In line with the resolutions of the first confernce, the second Roundtable Conferene on CLTS was held in Calabar, Cross River State, from October 5th- 9th, 2010. The conference was funded by Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Cross River State government, UNICEF, EU and DFID. The conference shared in the current state of CLTS implementation and awarded national CLTS Champions.

The recommendations of the conference can be summed up under four headings: innovative ideas for scaling up; strengtheing mechanisms for certification of ODF; strengthening partnership, networking and coordination; monitoring and documentation of CLTS.