West Africa Regional Sanitation and Hygiene Symposium, 3-5 Nov, Accra, Ghana
The bi-lingual West Africa Regional Symposium on Sanitation and Hygiene (3-5 Nov 2009, Accra, Ghana) brought together about 140 participants from 17 countries. It was jointly organised by the Resource Centre Network Ghana, UNICEF, West Africa Water Initiative (WAWI), WaterAid, and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, and supported by the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council.
A wide range of experts and practitioners, coming from 11 different countries in West Africa, presented papers on issues such as Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), ecological sanitation, school sanitation and hygiene promotion. The presentations were used as an appetizer for more in-depth discussion in smaller groups of maximum 12 participants. The symposium provided a platform both for Anglophone and Francophone participants to share good practices and explore new ways forward.
L’ATPC, expérience en zone urbaine en Afrique
Author: Ahmed SAID, Child Survival Section , NOB Water, Sanitation and Hygiene , UNICEF Nouakchott, Mauritania. The paper describes an experience led in the area of sanitation using the approach called CLTS (Community-Led Total Sanitation). This experience took place in Rosso, Mauritania in one of the biggest cities of the country.
Management of ecosan system in urban areas:"ecosan_ue project case study'' in four sectors of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Author: Chiaka Coulibaly, Mali. To show that the EcoSan approach can be suitable also in urban areas, a pilot project in Ouagadougou called EcoSan_UE Project has been implemented during three years, 2006-2009.
Mise en oeuvre de l’Assainissement Total Piloté par la Communauté (ATPC) dans quinze (15) villages du Département de Tiassalé, Côte d’Ivoire
Auteurs: Kadjo Yao, UNICEF; Guedegbe Awa Ouattara, UNICEF Côte d’Ivoire. To help understand the health risks associated with defecating in the open, UNICEF with the government and NGOs have developed the initiative of Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in two villages in the department Tiassalé.
Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation (PHAST): a methodology for sustainable hygiene and sanitation behavior change with experience from the Bawku West District of Ghana
Authors: Nunoo David, Osman K. Mumuni & Nanedo Nukunu Awuku, Ghana. The principal objective of this paper is to share World Vision Ghana’s experiences in using the F-Diagram as a hygiene, sanitation and behavioral change promotion tool which can be used to enhance effective participation by communities and schools in the hygiene promotion and behavior change process.
Putting people at the centre of development: a case study of Village Hygiene Promoters in promoting hygiene in Marayo community in Jigawa state, Nigeria
Authors: M. Mendie & O. Ogbureke Ph.D, Nigeria. To reduce disease transmission not only requires providing toilets and other hardware. Village Hygiene Promoters play an important role in ensuring that households comply with communally agreed standards in addition to sharing and disseminating information to the community at large.
Releasing trapped knowledge: feedback on a decision support tool
Authors: M. Palaniappan & M. Hutchings, United States. Residents, communities, practitioners, and municipalities need a Community Choices Decision-Making Support Tool to help them select, adopt, and maintain the most suitable technologies, financing mechanisms, and management approaches based on their own unique preferences.
Role of community empowerment in increasing access to sanitation and hygiene
Authors: A. Kazeem Balogun, B. Franklin Oloniju, Nigeria. Service providers do not get feedback from community members on the quality of service provided. WaterAid Nigeria supported a civil society coalition in Ekiti State to work in her focused Local Governnent Authorities (LGAs) and communities to empower community members on their rights as well as track budgets for water, sanitation and hygiene.
Safi Sana; water and sanitation provisions in urban slums - closing the loop
Authors: Tettey-Lowor, F., Urlings, L., Acheampong, N.E., Ghana. To find solutions and to accomplish the Millennium Development Goals, Safi Sana (Ghana) Ltd has introduced a two-folded approach to improve water and sanitation delivery whilst ensuring environmental sustainability by a business based approach based on franchise and joint ventures using a financial mix of grants and loans.
Sanitation Centre- a catalyst for the adoption of safe Sanitation in small Town, Yobe State, Nigeria
Author: Abass K. O and Dunia E., Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Reform Programme (WSSSRP, Nigeria. The establishment of sanitation centres (sani-centre) and its presence in some communities in Yobe State has increased the construction of safe latrines, reduced the rate of open defecation and promoted other safe practices thereby reducing the incidence of diarrhea.
Sanitation in basic schools- a case study in Tano South District, Ghana
Authors: D. Gyabaah, E. Awuah and N.O.B. Ackerson, Ghana. The Ghana education policy requires all schools to have adequate sanitation and safe water facilities. However, the states of these facilities are not known due to poor monitoring practices. This study therefore sought to determine the existing conditions of sanitation and hygiene facilities.
