Event Description
It is widely acknowledged that sanitation is more than the provision of facilities and requires community, household and individual change to ensure the construction, use and maintenance of facilities. Various approaches and methods are currently in use to promote sanitation improvements throughout the world. The objective of this seminar is to present and discuss various sanitation promotion approaches such as Total Sanitation, Social Marketing, PHAST, CLTS, etc., and to highlight how they have been used in different settings, their strengths and weaknesses and how they can best be used to accelerate progress for sanitation improvements throughout the globe.

Ensuring community and household commitment to sanitation is vital to the achievement of the MDG target and the sustainability of any interventions supported and sanitation promotion is fundamental to achieving this. There is a wealth of experience on approaches and methods which need to be shared and reviewed in order to increase the global understanding of the main components required for successful sanitation promotion at all levels. This seminar shall provide the opportunity for participants to share their experiences on sanitation promotion and explore opportunities for scaling up sanitation promotion throughout the globe.

Programme

Chair: Mr. Mahimbo Mdoe, UNICEF Representative Central African Republic (CAR) (tbc)