Community Led Total Sanitation in Nigeria

CLTS has been piloted in Nigeria by WaterAid. This has provided the learning opportunity for other country programmes to take a critical look at their sanitation approaches and shift their strategies accordingly. All four Water Aid West Africa country programmes have committed to piloting and adopting the CLTS approach in their new country strategy papers which were developed and approved in September 2005.

The experience has shown that communities can be mobilised to understand the implications of open defecation and to take action to improve their situation. However, there have been challenges in achieveing 100% open defecation free status.