Experts shared experience from clean water and sanitation projects
sponsored by ChildFund Australia and other non-governmental
organisations at a seminar in Hanoi on October 4.
At the event, ChildFund Chief Representative in Vietnam Deborah Leaver
said that the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is an innovative
way of mobilising communities to completely eliminate open defecation.
It focuses on the behavioural change needed to ensure real and
sustainable improvements.
According to Nguyen Huy
Nga, head of the Environmental Management Department under the Ministry
of Health, the pilot implementation of the model shows that it is a good
approach and may be applied widely in the communities, especially those
in remote areas.
The CLTS programme has been piloted in Dien Bien, Lao Cai, Lai Chau, Kon Tum, Ninh Thuan, An Giang and Dong Thap provinces.-VNA