1. Monitoring WASH
Service Delivery
Symposium
The Role of Local Government and Community
Structures in Community Led Total Sanitation
Monitoring
Mary Namwebe - Plan Uganda

2. Outline
• ODF Definition
• ODF Monitoring
• Frequency of Monitoring
• Methodology for data collection and Storage
• Monitoring against plans/Targets
• ODF Declaration & Certification
• Post ODF Monitoring
• Feedback mechanisms
• Key challenges
• Main successes

3. ODF Definition
• OD means defecating in the open
• ODF means Open Defecation
Free, when no feaces are openly
exposed to the air.
• ODF indicators
1.Presence of a latrine
2.Presence of a hand washing facility
3.No open defecation observed in the
surrounding and former OD areas

4. ODF Monitoring
• Monitoring is
conducted by a
team of village
health
teams, Natural
leaders and local
leaders.
• The VHTs & NLs
are supported by
Plan and the Local
government

5. Frequency of Monitoring
• Conducted at three levels;
• 1st Monitoring – 3 weeks after
triggering
• 2nd Monitoring – After one & a half
months
• 3rd Monitoring - After 3 months
• Routine monitoring for designated
households per VHT/NL

6. Method for Data collection &
Storage
• Use CLTS Monitoring forms for collecting data
• Each VHT and NL is assigned 5 – 10
households to monitor
• Data from all villages is consolidated by the
leader of VHTs into parish level data
• Data is submitted to the sub county health
assistant who shares with Plan and the District
• At the district data is entered into a simple excel
sheet
• Hard copies of data are filed &kept for record
purposes
• The district submits data to the line ministries
where its stored in a data base.

7. ODF Verification & Declaration
• ODF Verification:
Conducted by a
multi-stakeholder
team comprising of
MOH,MWE, District,
Sub county, Plan,
Rep NGO, VHTs/NLs
• ODF Declaration:
ODF declaration is
conducted by the
district team, MOH
and MWE Rep

8. ODF Certification
• ODF
Certification:
The district
awards a
certificate to
each village
declared ODF
during ODF
celebration

9. Post ODF Monitoring
• The VHTs / NLs continue with
monitoring households allocated to
them on a weekly basis.
• Provide feed back on progress
during quarterly reviews
• Provide data to the sub county
• Monitor Hygiene ,Sanitation and
status of Water sources in
community.

10. Feed back Mechanism
• Quarterly reviews
• District Co-ordination committee
meetings
• Village local council meetings
• Joint Sector Review
• National Sanitation Working Group
• CLTS Steering committee

11. Challenges
• Inadequate funding for sanitation at
Local government level
• Inadequate human resource at sub
county level
• Transfer of trained local government
staff in CLTS
• Reliance on VHTs who are
volunteers

12. Main successes
• One sub county has
been declared ODF (40
villages)
• Empowered the
community members to
monitor their sanitation
status
• ODF is one of the
proxy indicator for
Sector performance
reporting - MWE