A 13-year-old Primary Six pupil was rewarded with sh20,000 during celebrations of the Day of the African Child in Kamuli district after she told the audience that members of her family defecate in the bush

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Annually the ministry of water and environment holds the joint technical review forum six months after the Joint Sector Review

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This National Learning Forum is being jointly organised by the GoU (DWD, DWRM, MoH-EHU, MoES), the Uganda WASH Resource Centre, SNV and IRC. (See Concept Note). At the National Learning Forum space will be given to the following subject areas:
•Experiences on IWRM implementation at the local scale (Localisation of IWRM principles)
•‘Good’ (and bad) practices/experiences on operation and maintenance of water supply systems
•Cases on how sanitation for family health and prosperity is practised
•Experiences on WASH in schools.
The two-day Forum will attract some 60-80 participants including case study presenters, government staff from national and local level, international and local NGOs, UNICEF, WSP, knowledge institutions, academia and the media.

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An overview of organisations in the watsan sector in Uganda

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Until only a few months ago, justice was a strictly male affair and women rarely travelled to the courthouse in Chikako.The reason was simply that Chikako had no lavatory.

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About 26 people, one of them a sub-county councillor and four LC1 officials, have been arrested for lack of pit latrines [and taken to court].

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Mayuge District is currently looking for an alternative to the congestion in the
prison by seeking an alternative for petty offenders, according to the District
Chairman Bakari Tigawalana.

Fishing communities refuse to use latrines.doc  (29 kB)

The leapps Evaluation 2009 covered all the sessions held in the 4 Districts of Koboko, Arua,Kamwenge and Kyenjojo.
It focused on:
Outcomes/effects of LeaPPS on Districts
What we think led to the identified successes (success factors
What has failed to work in LeaPPs
Reasons we think have caused LeaPPs to lag behind (failure factors)
Key issues to change or do differently in 2009
Planning leaps 2009
Leapps #6 Programme

LeaPPS_090204_minutes_internal_evaluation[1].doc  (71 kB)

The National Sanitation Working Group (NSWG) planned for its second annual learning event for its members, local Governments and Technical support units as part of its 2008 interventions.
The objectives of 2008 NLE
The overall objective of the 2008 NLE was to facilitate the enhanced learning and sharing of information on sustainable sanitation and hygiene. Specifically the objectives were:
Share the concept, development, best practice and initiatives on CLTS and its application to communities in the Ugandan context.
Raise awareness of stakeholders in sanitation and hygiene on the importance of learning and sharing information among sector organizations and individuals at all levels.
Appreciate the importance of scaling-up sanitation and hygiene initiatives, including learning and sharing, for the wider WATSAN sector
Consolidate the main findings and lessons learnt by Plan (U) in view of scaling up best approaches and practices related to Sanitation and Hygiene promotion.

Annual Learning event 2008.doc  (1.90 MB)

Learning for Policy and Practice in Sanitation & Hygiene (San&Hyg), or LeaPPS, is a joint initiative of IRC Int. Water and Sanitation Centre and Uganda partners SNV and NETWAS to contribute to district and sub-district enhancement of San&Hyg sector performance. This initiative has been running for a year in four districts, Kyenjojo, Kamwenge, Arua and Koboko, with the involvement of two sub-counties in each district. The content focus is San&Hyg at household/community level and primary schools. The overall aim is to generate more cost-efficient and effective San&Hyg programmes and sustainable facilities and behaviours

Read more or download LeaPPS 0808 contribution Joint Sector Report 08-final.pdf  (298 kB)