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A Community-Led Approach to Sanitation in Liberia

Published 11/23/2015 by Global Communities

A Community-Led Approach to Sanitation in Liberia
Global Communities carried out a USAID-funded Improved Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (IWASH) program in three counties in Liberia from February 2010 to April 2015. IWASH implemented the internationally recognized Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach. CLTS “triggers” community disgust toward open defecation practices and subsequently raises community awareness about how feces in the environment can impact health and livelihoods. CLTS identifies Natural Leaders, community members who encourage their communities to achieve Open Defecation Free (ODF) status, as verified by the Liberian government. When Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) broke out in 2014, Global Communities transitioned some of its IWASH activities to focus on Ebola response in Lofa, Bong and Nimba counties.
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