Global Scaling up Rural Sanitation Project : progress report (July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010)

Global Scaling up Rural Sanitation is a Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) project focused on learning how to combine the approaches of Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), behavior change communications, and social marketing of sanitation to generate sanitation demand and strengthen the supply of sanitation products and services at scale, leading to improved health for people in rural areas. It is a large-scale effort to meet the basic sanitation needs of the rural poor who do not currently have access to safe and hygienic sanitation. The project is being implemented by local and national governments with technical support from WSP. This progress report is one in a series of knowledge products designed to showcase project findings, assessments, and lessons learned in the project. Finally, the project team will work to balance growing demands from other WSP focus countries. Based on the experience of the project and the outcomes achieved, WSP has made scaling up rural sanitation one of the main components of the new WSP FY11-FY15 business plan.