Basics of CLTS facilitation Dry runs of triggering activities

7.3 Basics of CLTS facilitation

Facilitation for CLTS is not the same as for Pra. a CLTS facilitator in a community stresses his or her role as a learner from the community; a person who would like to know and understand their sanitation practices. The facilitator is not there to teach anything, but more as a student who wants to learn. This is coupled with managing the sequence of the triggering process in a way which helps people to visualise and see what their practices are and through guiding their own analysis to understand the consequences. The facilitator is continuously on the watch out for any individual who will denounce or criticise current practice, and then help them to amplify their critical voice. ask: how many agree? For do’s and don’ts of facilitation see appendix C .

7.4 Dry runs of triggering activities

ask groups to do dry runs of triggering activities, acting out numbers in brackets refer to relevant pages in the CLTS Handbook: Triggering n Getting started. rapport building, introduction, explaining objectives of visit, walking around the village, and informing people about the meeting and its location. People can be called in whatever way is the local custom. n Mapping Handbook: 31: This should be focused, fast and fun. Mapping must be on the ground with colours, chalks, cards, symbols etc, indicating details relating to health and diarrhoea like the major defecation areas, where the amateur private doctors known as “quacks” live, expenditures on health, and so on. n Defecation area transect Handbook: 27-29 and asking questions on the transect walk. n Shit and medical expenses calculations Handbook: 33-4. n Glass of water and shit Handbook: 34-35. n Shit and food Handbook: 34-36. n Pathways of faecal-oral contamination, from open shit to open mouth Handbook: 34. Actions if triggered Discuss the ignition moment very thoroughly in the classroom. Explain clearly before the participants visit villages for real triggering. as a result of the above activities, if triggering occurs, the participants should move to the next stage: n asking who would like to stop oD immediately, with raising of hands. n if the cost of a latrine is a constraint, ask who would be interested to know the cheapest latrines constructed by communities elsewhere Handbook: 37. n When all agree and demand to know, draw a simple sketch of a direct pit latrine using black marker and clear drawing. n Hand over the marker to interested community members to do their own drawings. n ask those who will act at once to write up their names. n identify prospective natural leaders and invite them for the last day. also ask the community to select its own representatives to present their plans to the workshop. n Leave markers and papers for the community to come up with plans for the last day. Tell the Top: Potential Natural Leaders and Community Engineers took control after triggering and were busy drawing their own latrine designs in a village near Cochabamba in Bolivia. Bottom: No outside facilitator is in control of the proceedings. a village near Cochabamba in Bolivia. community to transfer the map, and all analysis on chart papers, for presentation at the workshop. n inform them that they will be making a presentation of their sanitation profile, plans of action, date of declaration of oDF, and the progress made during the last 48 hours after triggering. n if some start digging straight away, arrange for the video person to be present. if others decide to start the next day, ask if they would like to be filmed at work or on completion of a particular stage, which would be shown to other communities on the last day of the workshop. n inform the community about the logistical arrangements for bringing their representatives to workshop venue, return and lunch, etc.

7.5 Session on challenges