Teachers and Sanitation Promotion: An Assessment of Community-Led Total Sanitation in Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT: Community-led total sanitation (CLTS) is a participatory approach to addressing open defecation that has demonstrated success in previous studies, yet there is no research on how implementation arrangements and context change effectiveness. We used a quasi-experimental study design to compare two interventions in Ethiopia: conventional CLTS in which health workers and local leaders provided facilitation and an alternative approach in which teachers provided facilitation. In 2012, Plan International Ethiopia trained teachers from 111 villages and health workers and leaders from 54 villages in CLTS facilitation. The trained facilitators then implemented CLTS in their respective villages for a year. Latrine ownership, use, and quality were measured with household surveys. Differences between

SUBMITTER: Crocker J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4917925 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature