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WASH JN site visit to Pikine

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Author: Kate Anderson
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Dakar, Senegal
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22 April 2013

COMMUNITY-LED MONITORING CLTS

Community-Led monitoring map is a crucial tool in post triggering CLTS follow up for village sanitation committee to monitor and update the progress of behaviour change in the community.

Cambodia
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10 April 2013

WOMAN COMMUNE LEADER AS A SANITATION CHAMPION

As a woman commune leader, she plays a variety of roles in championing Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), a process that aim to bring about community-wide behavior change for sanitation and hygiene practices, thereby eliminating open defecation.

Cambodia
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6 March 2013

Global Sanitation Fund programme in Cambodia gets ready for the "season of flies"

“With our behaviour, we are killing our children,” says J.P. Shukla to trigger Cambodia’s sanitation activists to ambitiously end preventable deaths caused by open defecation as the kingdom’s ‘season of flies [March to June]’ is coming.

Source: Mom Chantara Soleil, Plan Cambodia
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4 February 2013

Glimmer of hope for elimination of open air defecation in Madagascar

The statistics are chilling: 53% of Madagascar’s 20.7 million people defecate openly every day while another 33% use dilapidated, unsafe toilets. The under-5 mortality rate of is one of the highest in the world, at 72 deaths per 1,000 children. One-fifth of these deaths are caused by diarrhoea, causing great personal anguish for families, straining health care systems, and stretching pocketbooks filled with a per capita income of just US$ 488 per year. In Madagascar, open air defecation leads to a loss of an estimated US$ 65 million per year.

Source: WSSCC
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2 February 2013

Madagascar voit une lueur d’espoir à travers l’élimination de la défécation à l’air libre

Les statistiques sont effrayantes: 53% des 20,7 millions d’habitants à Madagascar pratiquent la défécation à l’air libre chaque jour si 33% utilisent des toilettes délabrées et plutôt dangereuses. Le taux de mortalité des enfants de moins de 5 ans est parmi les plus élevés dans le monde, à 72 pour 1000 naissances vivantes, un cinquième de ces décès est causé par la diarrhée qui engendre une inquiétude permanente pour les familles et un faible système de service de santé et les moyens maigres constitués d’un revenu annuel d’US $ 488 par individu. Pour Madagascar, la défécation à l'air libre engendre une perte estimée à plus de 48 Millions d'Euro par an.

Source: WSSCC
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2 February 2013

Read the latest news about the Global Sanitation Fund in Nepal

Exciting things are happening as the Global Sanitation Fund continues to be implemented in Nepal. UN-Habitat is leading the work as the Executing Agencies, and a number of partner Sub-Grantees are working to achieve Open Defecation Free Status in 5 districts and five municipalities. The four components of the GSF programme are

Source: UN-Habitat Nepal
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11 January 2013

A Typical View Of Girl Toilets in Urban Slums of India

The View Of a typical Girls Toilet in Urban Slums of India . Girl are facing a big problem in India both in (Urban & Rural Slums) in terms of Toilets .  …

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Author: Gagan Deep
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New Delhi
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9 January 2013

WSSCC sponsors CLTS workshop in Jharkhand, India

WSSCC is supporting the CLTS Foundation in its arrangement of the 4th Annual Workshop on “Sustainability of Rural Sanitation Initiatives in India.” 

Source: WSSCC
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7 December 2012