Pan African CLTS Program
Progress & Low lights & High lights &Lessons Learned
Country: Zambia
Your Name: Wiscot Mwanza and Simulekwa Sifaya
Progress till January
Objective:
Increase sanitation coverage
through the CLTS approach
Target No Reached No Target No. Reached Targeted
Reached No. Target No.
Of Villages Villages
Schools
No. Schools No. People People
Children
Reached No.
Children
Have been triggered
Have reached ODF
Have adapted improved
Hygiene practices
100
19,794
114
71
10
03
03
120,000
49, 484
60,000
• Are communities empowered to develop and
maintain their own WASH Systems?
• All triggered communities have been empowered to
develop and maintain their own WASH systems. This
has been done through capacity building and
exposure visits
Has the National government accepted
the CLTS approach and are they also
implementing this? Is there a budget
available?
• The Zambian government has accepted the
CLTS as an approach to accelerate sanitation
coverage in the national sanitation strategy.
• Ministry of Local Government, Housing, Early
Education and Environmental Protection are a
lead government agency in the
implementation of WATSAN activities.
Is there a budget available?
• There is a budget in place for the scaling up of
CLTS in Zambia. During the year 2011,
provincial and district trainings for CLTS
facilitators were conducted, e.g. 2,000 CLTS
facilitators will be trained by government
support countrywide.
Low Lights
• Please describe the 4 main challenges that the
program faced so far.
1. CLTS Volunteer motivation
2. Collapsing of latrines in some areas
3. Limited community participation in some areas in
the implementation of School Led Total Sanitation
4. Motivation of villages that have attained ODF to
remain ODF
Please explain during the meeting if you were able to
overcome these challenges. If, so explain how you
overcame them
1. CLTS volunteer motivation
i.
Some CLTS volunteers were incorporated in the CLTS
Exchange visit to Choma district
ii. Case study on one of the head persons who appeared in the
2010 Pan-African CLTS Trigger Magazine. The magazine was
shared with others.
How challenges were overcame
2. Collapsing of latrines in some areas
• Lining of pits using bamboo baskets, woven sticks,
and concrete rings, etc.
How challenges were overcome
3. Limited community participation in some
areas in the implementation of School Led Total
Sanitation
• Holding community meetings.
• Involvement of the Department of Education, i.e.
DEBS’ office.
• Involvement of the EHTs in SLTS
How challenges were overcome
4. Motivation of villages that have attained ODF
to remain ODF
• Nothing, though there are plans by
government to start awarding villages that
have attained ODF to remain ODF
High Lights
• Give three examples of things that you are
really proud of / main lessons learned of the
CLTS program so far.
i.
There is community ownership of the program.
ii. Involvement of different players/cadres at national,
district, sub-district and village level which brings
about different expertise required for the program
iii. Involvement of children
Lessons Learned
• What are the three main lessons that you
have learned from the CLTS program so far?
i.
Innovation in latrine by communities which can be
harnessed.
ii. You achieve more when community based CLTS
facilitators are trained and used to trigger and
follow up villages.
iii. Exchange visits are an effective tool for learning.
Please explain how you have incorporated
these in the CLTS program
I.
Innovative community members are being used to
promote basket lined latrines at a fee.
II. Chiefs, village headpersons, natural leaders, EHTs
and including other extension staff are involved in
facilitation of CLTS/SLTS.
III. Joint monitoring visits at sub-district level and
exchange visits between communities and to other
districts were conducted.
Picture
• Include some nice pictures of toilets build in
the project area.