COMMUNITY LEAD TOTAL SANITATION (CLTS) APPROACH

 THE COMMUNITY LEAD TOTAL SANITATION (CLTS) APPROACH
Following triggering of villages on CLTS as a new approach to improve households sanitation in the community

This approachs aims at  having ODF (open defecation free) villages. A number of villages in Pader District, North Uganda, were triggered and follow up has been done to see the community response and progress to this approach. The results are very positive: indeed it is quite amazing to assess that 80% of the village households have constructed a local pit latrine in their households and they are now using them with provisional hand washing facility (tipi tap) which they also constructed. This really has helped population to reduce communicable, especially fecal-oral ,diseases by 74% and hand washing increased by 47 % according to the nearby health facility's report over the last two moths when CLTS was carried out in the area. The photos below show a number of follow-up visits to those villages and to households who were triggered and provided with guidance and skills on how to construct pit latrines and maintain them.

CLTS follow up in the community: in the middle is Geoffrey with the team from the sub-county and the owner of the latrine, without the shirt, as he is working on his latrine.

CLTS Follow ups to attain ODF(open defecation free) status in this rural community.

Hand washing significantly reduces diseases burden and Geoffrey is checking the technology used in the tipi tap in a certain house. Below  he is giving health talk with key health messages to a mother who is the owner of the household on how to use sanitary facility, why they should use it and all the benefits associated with it.