In September 2010, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded, Management Sciences for Health (MSH)-led Sudan Health Transformation Project, Phase 2 (SHTP II) piloted a 3-month Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) project to determine the most effective strategies to increase sanitary defecation methods in Southern Sudan. CLTS motivates or “triggers” communities’ desire for change and influences them to create “open defecation –free” sites, through the construction and utilization of latrines.
In Lologo South, a residential community just south of Juba, thousands of new houses, fences, and animal carrels are in various states of construction. And importantly, thanks to MSH, there are also latrines.
Source: Mary Burket, Management Sciences for Health / allAfrica.com, 5 July 2011
