A Community-Based Program Promotes Sanitation

Integrated community based child survival, reproductive health and water and sanitation program in Mkuranga district, Tanzania: a replicable model of good practices in community based health care

BACKGROUND Over decades, evidence has accumulated to justify the concern that top-down approaches do not work and may result in lack of program ownership and sustainability. As a result, participatory approaches have increasingly become popular. An example of such an approach is hereby presented. DESCRIPTION Working with AMREF, Mkuranga district significantly gained experience and improved it...

Water and Sanitation Program: Technical PaPer

Community-Led Total Sanitation in Rural Areas

The Water and Sanitation Program is an international partnership for improving water and sanitation sector policies, practices, and capacities to serve poor people Sanitation programs have, for some time now, incorporated the need to raise awareness and emphasize the benefits of toilet usage. This has been most effectively undertaken by empowered communities motivated to take collective action,...

Community-Led Total Sanitation in Rural Areas

Small Community and Rural Sanitation Systems