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The starting point should be creating the demand for the latrines, to construct the latrine and its various benefits in the minds of the locals. I am tempted to think that the fishing community might be defaecating in the river to provide bait to the fish for an easy catch and hence latrines would reduce their catch. Therefore this forms the basis of for a crying need for an intensified hygiene promotion framework.

In neighboring Zimbabwe, we are using a demand led sanitation and hygiene approach, anchored on the traditional PHHE (participatory health and hygiene education) and focused on sanitation. It is the Sanitation Focused PHHE approach, which is a technology specific form of CLTS which has yield massive results to date with over 3,000 open defaecation free communities and over 110,000 ventilated improved latrines constructed.

Cognisant of higher water tables, we have developed specifications of a VIP latrine which is two metres deep (the traditional one is a 3m deep lined VIP)and can have a raised plinth, i.e. one metre above the ground level. Willing to share specs