Pan African CLTS Program

Kenya Philip Otieno

Progress & Challenges & High lights &Lessons Learned

Progress till January

•The communities have been empowered to develop and maintain their WASH systems through the sanitation committee/NL forums, CBOs/ VDCs and Provincial administration (RRI) and PHO/PHT performance contract.

Objective Target No Of Villages

Reached No Villages

Target No. Schools

Reached No. Schools

Targeted No. People

Reached No. People

Target No. Children

Reached No. Children

Have been triggered 135 45 127665 85200Have reached ODF 35 12 32000 21300 Have adapted improved Hygiene practices

35 12 32000 21300

• The national govt has accepted and is implementing CLTS. The challenge is that there is no adequate national budget. To a large extent it depends on INGOs, and UNICEF.

Challenges• Inadequate human personnel for CLTS

implementation.

• Affordable sanitation technological options that can enable the communities climb the sanitation ladder.

• Buy in of key sanitation actors

• Space for latrine construction in informal settlements

• Please explain during the meeting if you were able to overcome these challenges. If, so explain how you overcame them

The challenges mentioned are still impediments. However, we are engaging with other stakeholders to see how they can be overcome.

High Lights/ our pride• The on going transformationof the mind set

amongst govt staff/NGO staff that non subsidy approach is the way to go.

• The ongoing transformationof the mindset in the communities that they have the capacity to address their own sanitation issues.

• Children becoming CLTS champions at school and in their homes.

Lessons Learned• What are the three main lessons that you have

learned from the CLTS program so far?

• Working in partnership is more likely to realize quicker results. This is incorporated through regional and national WASH forums.

• Govt buy in is critical to scale up of national project. This is incorporated in adoption of CLTS as sanitation strategy, and in ODF rural Kenya 2013.

Lesson learnt

Move slow at first, and scale up when you feel you have matured in personnel capacity, community capacity and resource mobilization. This has been incorporated at the national level, but more specifically in Nyanza where CLTS had a bumpy start.

Pictures

Ecosan type latrine