ZAMBIA SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS ON CLTS/SLTS/ULTS Prepared by: Wiscot M. Mwanza Dated: June 2012 Executive Summary Community Led Sanitation (CLTS) is one of several approaches currently being implemented in Zambia to increase rural sanitation coverage. The Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) on Water Supply and Sanitation estimated rural sanitation coverage in Zambia to be 43% in 2008 (UNICEF/WHO, 2010). The MDGs Report 2008 showed that Zambia had made significant progress towards reaching MDGs in all goals, except the MDG7: Ensuring environmental sustainability, Target 7c: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. The achievements of sanitation targets are an obvious priority in Zambia, where over 80% of all diseases in Zambia are environmental and related to water and sanitation2. Following a successful pilot in Choma District in 2007, implemented by the GRZ and UNICEF, where within a period of two months sanitation coverage increased from 23% to 88% and 75% of the villages were verified as open defecation free (ODF), CLTS became a key sanitation approach in Zambia. At the district level, CLTS is overseen by MLGH through the Local Authorities (District, Municipal and City Councils) who implement as well
ZAMBIA SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS ON CLTS/SLTS/ULTS Prepared by: Wiscot M. Mwanza Dated: June 2012 Executive Summary Community Led Sanitation (CLTS) is one of several approaches currently being implemented in Zambia to increase rural sanitation coverage. The Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) on Water Supply and Sanitation estimated rural sanitation coverage in Zambia to be 43% in 2008 (UNICEF/WHO, 2010). The MDGs Report 2008 showed that Zambia had made significant progress towards reaching MDGs in all goals, except the MDG7: Ensuring environmental sustainability, Target 7c: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. The achievements of sanitation targets are an obvious priority in Zambia, where over 80% of all diseases in Zambia are environmental and related to water and sanitation2. Following a successful pilot in Choma District in 2007, implemented by the GRZ and UNICEF, where within a period of two months sanitation coverage increased from 23% to 88% and 75% of the villages were verified as open defecation free (ODF), CLTS became a key sanitation approach in Zambia. At the district level, CLTS is overseen by MLGH through the Local Authorities (District, Municipal and City Councils) who implement as well
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