Pan African CLTS Program Country: NIGER Your Name : TINEY Ousmane Progress & Challenges & High lights &Lessons Learned

Progress till January ObjectiveTarget No Of Villages Reached No Villages Target No. Schools Reached No. Schools Targeted No. People Reached No. People Target No. Children Reached No. Children Have been triggered ,00074,569 44,800 23,862 Have reached ODF ,000 74,569 44,800 23,862 Have adapted improved Hygiene practices ,000 74,56944,800 23,862

Are communities empowered to develop and maintain their own WASH Systems? Construction of household latrine / community needs; Ash/soap deposited next, close the latrine for washing hands after defecation;

Progress till January Has the National government accepted the CLTS approach and are they also implementing this? Is there a budget available? The government has accepted CLTS approach but not starting to implement CTLT. So Ministry has accepted the revision of the operational strategy of promoting hygiene and sanitation adopted. As following : 1. Finalization of the revision of national guidelines of promotion of WASH behaviors 2. Preparation of a national workshop to review the operational strategy of promoting hygiene and sanitation (the process will start after the revision of the national guidelines of promoting of WASH behaviors No budget is available for the CLTS at this moment.

Challenges Please describe the 4 main challenges that the program faced so far. Practice of subsidizing of the latrines by the partners Overlap of latrine construction period and the onset of the rainy season. Persistence of negative view on women leadership in some communities. Time between triggering and reaching ODF Water points in CLTS communities

Please explain during the meeting if you were able to overcome these challenges. If, so explain how you overcame them Continuation of the advocacy with the other members of Cluster WASH near the Ministry in charge of Hydraulic Integration of the thematic in the topics of Community radios and the dramer groups sensitizing campaigns Organization of field visits in order to discussing with communities actors on the factors which delay the implementation of their commitments; During quaterly meetings and forum discusing on triggering time and reaching ODF;

High Lights Give three examples of examples from the CLTS program that you are really prood of. Ownership of the religious leaders of CLTS Empowerment of women leaders ODF communities begin to tackle other issues of the local development

Lessons Learned What are the three main lessons that you have learned from the CLTS program so far? The principal lesson learned is that the abandonment of the subsidy latrines strategy requires a very high commitment and a strong advocacy of all the partners of hygiene and sanitation. Never triggered in rainy season

Positive impact of CLTS Benches with clay

Positive impact (Rehabilitation of a hand pump

House hold latrine constructed

A improved household latrine

Model of ODF community

ODF celebration