Plan International introduced Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in Africa to support its child survival and development goals. The CLTS Programme aimed at empowering self-help sanitation of rural and peri-urban communities and schools in Africa. The evaluation assessed toilet and handwashing facilities, knowledge, behaviour and attitudes in the 20 schools. The project assessed whether project beneficiaries use the knowledge on handwashing technique received during project implementation, whether project beneficiaries are more likely to practice HWWS than non-beneficiaries, and whether project beneficiaries practice handwashing at critical times school compared to the non-beneficiaries.
EVALUATION OF PAN AFRICAN COMMUNITY-LED TOTAL SANITATION (CLTS) IN SCHOOLS
Core Area:
Water, Sanitation & Health (WASH)
Service:
Research, Monitoring and Evaluation
Client:
FH Designs
Year:
2016
Plan International introduced Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in Africa to support its child survival and development goals. The CLTS Programme aimed at empowering self-help sanitation of rural and peri-urban communities and schools in Africa. The evaluation assessed toilet and handwashing facilities, knowledge, behaviour and attitudes in the 20 schools. The project assessed whether project beneficiaries use the knowledge on handwashing technique received during project implementation, whether project beneficiaries are more likely to practice HWWS than non-beneficiaries, and whether project beneficiaries practice handwashing at critical times school compared to the non-beneficiaries. The project, which sought to provoke and support collective behaviour change through community and school mobilisation instead of hardware provision, targeted rural schools in Plan intervention zones in 8 African countries. FH Designs engaged JMK in Australia to collect data in 20 primary schools in Central and Volta regions using CAPI (i.e., SMAP).
KEY OUTPUTS AT-A-GLANCE
In undertaking this assignment, JMK:
1. Recruited interviewers and supervisors to carry out the surveying.
2. Supervised the collection of 30-40 household surveys in each of the 20 project areas and uploaded data unto the SMAP server.
3. Managed all logistics, including arranging transport and accommodation for the interviewers and supervisors.
4. Conducted community cognisant visits by contacting the local authorities and local leaders to seek approval to carry out the surveying in the project communities.
5. Participated in training provided by FH Designs in Kenya.
6. Delivered a 2-day personnel training to the data collection teams, including field testing of the survey instruments, before the start of the household survey.
7. Supervised all data collection activities in accordance with the survey implementation protocol and the data collection work plan.
8. Ensured transfer of data into FH Design servers within 24 hours of data collection on a daily basis.