L’ATPC, expérience en zone urbaine en Afrique

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 Mauritania in one of the biggest cities of the country. The outlines of this experience are not entirely definite, in view of the fact that the process is still ongoing and that the first evaluation has not taken place yet. However, with the elements recorded during implementation and follow-up, it is considered that there is something to share.

The funds allocated to this activity were meant to cover the payment of facilitators, their transport for the launching and follow-up, and also to cover the payment of community ceremonies organised on the occasion of ODF (Open Defecation Free) day, if the community is so declared.
Note that the CLTS approach was launched in Mauritania at the end of last March in the urban and rural areas of the Rosso community; But the emphasis in this presentation will be on the urban and suburban.

Furthermore, attention must be drawn to the fact that the town of Rosso has known recently (after the first writing of this paper) some torrential rains and flooding that have caused extensive material damage affecting, inter alia, infrastructure, community housing including sanitation installations.