As the number of ODF villages increases, Fonds d’Appui pours l’Assainissement (FAA), the GSF program in Madagascar, continues to work at slippage reduction.
In a fragile political context and with limited resources, staff and capacity at local government level, FAA applies complementary strategies to address matters of sustainability, including working towards behavioral sustainability by strengthening local traditional community governance structures and involving community actors, such as Natural Leaders and Community Consultants in monitoring and follow up of interventions; ensuring technological/infrastructure sustainability by “triggering” demand for improved latrine technologies, strengthening supply chains of services and products, and where appropriate establishing Village Saving and Loans Associations (VSLA); and working closely with local traditional, political and institutional leaders to ensure all community interventions are anchored in existing local institutional structures to ensure continued support beyond the FAA program cycle.
By the end of 2019, these sustainability measures had been implemented in more than 17,000 out of the 21,000 villages declared ODF.