Hi All,

I'm very happy to share the videos of this webinar held on the 22nd July. These are split into sections:

1. Introduction


2. Chat show - where the 4 speakers indicated above shared their insights


3. Feedback from breakout rooms


4. Closing Panel's comments


Please feel free to continue to share your comments and reflections on this thread!
Regards,
Pippa

Dear All,

Thanks to everyone who attended this webinar - during the session we divided the group into 4 breakout rooms for more in-depth discussion, the notes of the breakout discussions are attached.

Also a participants shared a few more resources of interest:

waterinstitute.unc.edu/how-can-we-improv...-evaluation-of-clts/

www.communityledtotalsanitation.org/reso...inability-study-plan

www.communityledtotalsanitation.org/reso...nd-clts-taking-stock

The video of the webinar will be posted on this thread shortly.

Warmest regards,
Pippa

Sir/Ma
CLTS succeded in promoting the used of latrine to stop open defaecation in many villages/communities in southern part of Borno state in Nigeria becaues of the vigorous awareness done using shit calculation method. It was really disgusting to know the weight of shit being consumed and to realized that there are consuming each other's shit in their communities and villages. This has really worked for us to the extent of attaining open defecation free communities/villages if not for the insurgent activity that made us to stand still. CLTS is really grate in promoting the desired behavioural change.

Aisha Hamza

Member Wg7

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Elisabeth

Thanks for posting a very interesting that concerns all of us. having working both in Asia and Africa, the single factor that according to me is the reason for a relatively higher success rate in Asia vs Africa is the process followed to promote CLTS. It may therefore be not prudent to make a comparison.

Hi Marijn, yes a video will be posted here following the session.

I'd also like to share a blog post on ODF success rates, forwarded to me by Robert Chambers and written by Andy Robinson based on the CLTS workshop held prior to AfricaSan4 in Dakar in May 2014.

Why are ODF success rates so much higher in Africa than in Asia?
The participants were asked to share any information available on ODF success rates in their countries – the number of communities triggered, and the number currently verified to be ODF. Numbers were provided from seven different countries, although most were partial data collected by specific programs (including data from Global Sanitation Fund programs in four countries).



The first striking feature of the data presented was the scale and reported success rate of the GSF Madagascar program: more than 12,600 communities triggered, and an 87% ODF success rate, resulting in nearly 11,000 ODF communities. While an impressive achievement, and reinforced by a strong and positive presence by the Government of Madagascar at the AfricaSan conference, these data inevitably raise questions over the speed and efficacy of the achievement; the quality of the verification processes; and the risk of sustainability problems in this huge, new ODF population. As Robert Chambers noted, the lesson from India, where premature claims of large-scale success (since disproved by the 2011 Census data) have significantly undermined sanitation efforts, should remind us that reliable verification processes, and regular checks on the quality and effectiveness of these processes, are critical in building confidence in ODF outcomes. Furthermore, while some studies have suggested that rapidly achieved ODF outcomes tend to reflect genuine and sustainable processes, the sheer scale of some of these achievements will present significant challenges to monitoring and support systems in these countries.

The second interesting feature was the much lower ODF success rate reported in Cambodia. The five African countries reported ODF success rates ranging from 46% to 96%, with even the lowest African country (Nigeria) reporting almost double the 25% success rate found in the GSF Cambodia program. These data seem to confirm that ODF success rates are much higher in Africa than in Asia – a 2012 regional CLTS study in the East Asia and Pacific region found that ODF success rates ranged from 4% to 36% (with Cambodia reporting the highest rates in the region).

When CLTS was first spreading in South Asia, in the early to mid-2000s, many African sanitation stakeholders refused to believe that CLTS was suitable for Africa – it was suggested that CLTS only worked in Asia because of the higher population densities, and that triggering effects were particular to the social and cultural contexts found in Asia. Today, we are starting to see the opposite – that CLTS may be more successful in Africa, perhaps because simple pit latrines tend to be more acceptable and appropriate in poor African communities than in Asian communities (where pour-flush toilets and washing after defecation are often preferred). More work is required to be sure that the impressive ODF gains made in Africa can be sustained, as several countries already report high levels of reversion to open defecation. Which brings us back to the sustainability discussion!

You can read the full blog on the CLTS website here: www.communityledtotalsanitation.org/blog...s-and-sustainability

In advance of the upcoming webinar outlined above , we asked our panel and chair to share their top picks and relevant resources on CLTS monitoring and measuring community outcomes, see the list below:

The Sanitation Monitoring UNICEF toolkit is an excellent resource: www.sanitationmonitoringtoolkit.com

Developing and Monitoring Protocol for the Elimination of Open Defecation in Sub-Saharan Africa. UNICEF. 2013.
www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/thom...b-saharan_africa.pdf

Community-Led Total Sanitation in East Asia and Pacific: Progress, Lessons and Directions. UNICEF. www.unicef.org/eapro/Community_Led_Total_Sanitation.pdf

Sanitation Marketing Lessons from Cambodia: A Market-Based Approach to Delivering Sanitation. Danielle Pedi, Phyrum Kov and Susanna Smets. Water and Sanitation Program. 2012. www.wsp.org/sites/wsp.org/files/publicat...ering-Sanitation.pdf)

Testing CLTS Approaches for Scalability, UNC / Plan International project website waterinstitute.unc.edu/clts/

How can a large sample survey monitor open defecation in rural India for the Swatch Bharat Abhiyan? Coffey and Spears, 2014. drive.google.com/file/d/0B6INpRxPZsYTZUJ...NjRTladEE/view?pli=1

In regards to improving outcomes, diffusion theory, and natural leaders:
Association Between Social Network Communities and Health Behavior: An Observational Sociocentric Network Study of Latrine Ownership in Rural India. Holly B. Shakya PhD et al. 2014. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3987610/

Of course this list is by no means exhaustive, do you have any further suggestions to add?

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Or, when you register, eventbrite will send you a calendar invite for your outlook calendar with automatically has the right time in it.

By the way, if you have questions to the experts beforehand, please do put them in this thread. There is no reason why we couldn't start the conversation already before the start of the webinar!

Dear Pippa,

it sounds like a very interesting webinar, but unfortunately I will not be a able to attend. I hope a summary will be posted in this thread later.

Regards

Marijn

Thanks Elisabeth,

Here are the faces behind the names of our panel and chair for this webinar.





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