SIERRA LEONE- Situational Analysis: CLTS/SLTS/ULTS


Sierra Leone- Situational analysis on CLTS/SLTS/ULTS

Contents

1. Sierra Leone overview 1

2. Sanitation overview 1

3. Pan Africa CLTS programmein Sierra Leone 2

4. Institutional mapping 3

5. Already existing platforms(networks, LAs) 4

Annex 1: Reference review 5

1.  Sierra Leone overview

·  Population: 5,200,000 pop in 2009 (CIA estimate).

·  GDP/capita PPP: 759$US in 2010 (IMF)

·  Main economic activities: subsistence agriculture, services, tourism, mineral exportations

·  Major cultural groups: 14 ethnic groups, the largest being Mende,Temne and Limba

·  Religions: Islam (60%), Animists Christians,

·  Political regime: constitutional republic. Civil war ended in 2002.

·  Geographical context: tropical

2.  Sanitation overview

·  Figures

Total population with access to ameliorated sanitation facilities in 2008: 11% (JMP, 2008)

MDG target for sanitation: 65%

·  Responsible authorityfor sanitation

The Environmental Health and Sanitation Department within the Ministry of Health and Sanitation is responsible for rural and urban water supply and sanitation. The responsibility for building and maintaining rural water supplies is supposed to pass to the new district councils (elected in 2004) in 2006, following decentralisation of responsibility for agriculture, education, and health and sanitation in 2005. The councils have authority to impose taxes to finance district development plans and the delivery of basic services.

·  Policies/strategies in place

The government adopted a National Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in 2009. Objectives addressed in the policy include: (1) to regulate the use of water and ensure that it is managed to meet the needs of socioeconomic development and the needs of the environment in a sustainable manner; (2) to review existing laws on grant of water rights, pollution control, catchment management, and conflict resolution; and (3) to establish a Water Resources Council to regulate and manage the utilization of the water resources for socioeconomic development and sustainability of the environment at national, river basin, district, community, and international levels.

·  Challenges in country

The majority of Sierra Leonean households do not have access to improved sanitation and the situation continues to deteriorate. Between 2005 and 2008, the proportion of the population with improved sanitation decreased from 30 percent (MICS3, 2005) to 13 percent (24% urban, 6% rural) (SLDHS, 2008).

Sierra Leone’s urban centres (mainly in Freetown) are developing at an unprecedented rate, with corresponding increasing levels of urban dwellings, small-scale businesses and resulting pollution from sewage. As a result, improving sanitation is faced with the challenge of rapid urbanization coupled with inadequate infrastructure and services for solid waste disposal. In the urban and peri-urban areas, the mushrooming of spontaneous/unplanned settlements, accommodating a huge proportion of the city’s population (approximately 2-3 million), is compounding the problem associated with urban environmental management and planning.

Reliable data is not easily available.

·  Major ongoing programmes/initiatives

In an effort to maintain total sanitation through the SSHE programme in schools communities located in the rural areas, a Local Non Governmental Organization, CORD Sierra Leone in partnership with Goal Sierra Leone has launched the School Sanitation and Hygiene Education program (SSHE) Program targeting five primary schools in the Koya chiefdom Kenema district.

·  History of CLTS in Sierra Leone

The civil war in Sierra Leone devastated the country’s basic infrastructure and weakened the Districts’ capacity to support communities in maintaining WatSan services. As a result, many rural and urban communities lack access to sanitation facilities and remain dependent on agencies and donors. As the Government of Sierra Leone, DFID and UNICEF work together on a five year programme to improve hygiene, sanitation and water supply in the country, Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) has been identified as the most promising option for increasing sanitation coverage for one simple reason: it works.
In January and February 2008, Kamal Kar facilitated a series of hands-on training workshops for UNICEF Sierra Leone, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Plan UK and Plan Sierra Leone. Workshop participants triggered CLTS in 34 villages.

3.  Pan Africa CLTS programmein Sierra Leone

·  Target populations

206 communities of children, Youths, elderly and aged People living with HIV/AIDS in Makari Gbanti chiefdom (population of 41,186 people in 286 villages) and Paki Massabong chiefdom (population of 17,320 people in 72 villages). Total population in the two chiefdoms is 58,506 people in 358 villages.

·  Specific objectives/country:

Overall objective:

The overall objective of this project is to contribute towards reduction in the incidence of diarrhoea related diseases as a result of faecal-oral transmission and improve the hygiene behaviour of participating community members within Bombali District by 2014.

Specific objectives:

1.  The specific objective is to increase access to improved human excreta disposal facilities and improve hygiene behaviour of 260 villages in two chiefdoms in Bombali District in Sierra Leone by 2014.

·  Progress (in 2010-2011):

1.  Planned, organized and implemented project inception and detailed planning workshop and project launched at district level

2.  Trained 11 project staff on the CLTS concept, methodology and approach

3.  Trained 62 project volunteers/natural leaders/facilitators (21 F and 41 M) on CLTS concept and methodology to be able to conduct triggering of communities.

4.  Raised the awareness level of local authorises councillors and other stakeholders (2 PCs, 6 councillor, 12 chiefs and 90 village headmen) of the CLTS approach and launched it at the chiefdom level

5.  Trained 12 project staff and 62 volunteer/facilitators/natural leaders on monitoring and coaching skills

6.  Triggered 46 communities and 8 have attained ODF status.

7.  Raised awareness level of about 47,000 the general population

8.  Set up 8 community based sanitation taskforce with defined roles and responsibilities

·  Challenges (in 2010-2011):

1.  High dependency on community people on NGO handouts and hopes for subside

2.  Commitment of partner line ministry (DHMT) to carry out monitoring visits and ODF verification still remain a challenge

3.  Female volunteers are less active than their male volunteers.

4.  Women/girls are the only ones cleaning the latrine

5.  Children constrain as they have to collect water

6.  Heavy rains wash away the mud bricks and collapse

4.  Institutional mapping

·  Government agencies

Ministry of Health and Sanitation

·  Major donors

EU, UNICEF, GIZ, World Bank, Danida, and JICA

·  Majors INGOs

CARE, Action Aid, WaterAid, World Vision, OXFAN, Pan International

·  Major local NGOs

CORD Sierra Leone in partnership with Goal Sierra Leone

·  Other relevant actor

5.  Already existing platforms(networks, LAs)

National CLTS task force and National SLTS task force

Level: national

Frequency of meeting, location (if constant):

Actors involved, leaders:

Contact organisation/person:

List of ongoing topics:

CSO WASH Network

Level: national

Frequency of meeting, location (if constant):

Actors involved, leaders:

Contact organisation/person:

List of ongoing topics:

WASH net Sierra Leone

Level: national

Frequency of meeting, location (if constant):

Actors involved, leaders:

Contact organisation/person:

List of ongoing topics:

District CLTS task force/ District SLTS task force

Level: district

Frequency of meeting, location (if constant):

Actors involved, leaders:

Contact organisation/person:

List of ongoing topics:

Annex 1: Reference review

A Review of the Water Supply and Sanitation Sector, by E.T. Ndomahina and I.S. Kabia for Government of Sierra Leone, Poverty Alleviation Strategy Coordinating Office (PASCO), July 2004.

http://usaidlandtenure.net/usaidltprproducts/country-profiles/sierra-leone

any other references??