Pan African CLTS Program
Progress & Challenges & High lights &Lessons Learned
Country: NIGER
Your Name : TINEY Ousmane
Progress till January
Objective
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
103
62
40
0
140,000
74,569
44,800
23,862
Have reached ODF
23
23
40
0
140,000
74,569
44,800
23,862
Have adapted improved
Hygiene practices
103
50
40
0
140,000
74,569
44,800
23,862
Are communities empowered to develop and
maintain their own WASH Systems?
•
Construction of household latrine / community needs;
•
Ash/soap deposited next, close the latrine for washing hands
after defecation;
Progress till January
Has the National government accepted the CLTS approach and
are they also implementing this? Is there a budget available?
The government has accepted CLTS approach but not starting to implement
CTLT . So Ministry has accepted the revision of the operational strategy of
promoting hygiene and sanitation adopted.
As following :
1. Finalization of the revision of national guidelines of promotion of WASH
behaviors
2. Preparation of a national workshop to review the operational strategy of
promoting hygiene and sanitation (the process will start after the revision of
the national guidelines of promoting of WASH behaviors
No budget is available for the CLTS at this moment .
Challenges
• Please describe the 4 main challenges that the
program faced so far.
•
Practice of subsidizing of the latrines by the partners
•
Overlap of latrine construction period and the onset of the rainy season.
•
Persistence of negative view on women leadership in some communities.
•
Time between triggering and reaching ODF
•
Water points in CLTS communities
Please explain during the meeting if you were able to
overcome these challenges. If, so explain how you
overcame them
Continuation of the advocacy with the other members of Cluster
WASH near the Ministry in charge of Hydraulic
Integration of the thematic in the topics of Community radios and the
dramer groups sensitizing campaigns
Organization of field visits in order to discussing with communities
actors on the factors which delay the implementation of their
commitments; During quaterly meetings and forum discusing on
triggering time and reaching ODF;
High Lights
Give three examples of examples from the CLTS
program that you are really prood of.
•
Ownership of the religious leaders of CLTS
•
Empowerment of women leaders
•
ODF communities begin to tackle other issues of the local
development
Lessons Learned
What are the three main lessons that you have
learned from the CLTS program so far?
•
The principal lesson learned is that the abandonment of the subsidy
latrines strategy requires a very high commitment and a strong advocacy
of all the partners of hygiene and sanitation .
•
Never triggered in rainy season
Positive impact of CLTS Benches with clay
Positive impact (Rehabilitation of a
hand pump
House hold latrine constructed
A improved household latrine
Model of ODF community
ODF celebration