Women Sanitation Champions in Northern Uganda: Taking Sanitation Matters into Our Own Hands

In Northern Uganda where open defecation rates remain much higher than the national average, USAID's Uganda Sanitation for Health Activity (USHA) implements Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach to support communities to attain ODF status using the CLTS Enterprise Model – a combination of the traditional CLTS and Market Based Sanitation (MBS).For the typical rural household in Uganda, the women’s responsibility to oversee household-related WASH needs such as fetching water and cleaning the toilet floor are clear and non-negotiable, although the ability of women in these settings to source income for sanitation needs in the household are limited. Read about three women from Northern Uganda who have taken up the mantle as champions of sanitation in their communities.