CLT campaigns have more to do ...

CLT campaigns have more to do with behavior change in our community people. If people fully understand the benefits of having proper sanitation and the dangers of open defecation, and thus act on the basis that they are not coerced but fully understand and realize that they need this sanitation, then i would say that the change is meaningful. It is very true that involving communities in project implementation encourages community ownership, better still involving these communities in the entire project cycle yields more desired results. I visited a place where i found every household had a VIP toilet built and I was very impressed but something caught my attention and made me wonder, some people where not using them as toilets, rather they where storing harvested maize in them and continued using the nearby bush as toilets....Where time has been invested in educating people, CLTs are leading to true behavior change. Let us not tire in educating our communities on health and hygiene issues...I think puting a time frame to behavior change compaigns will just frustrate project implementors if change is not seen in that set period. I want to leave this question, is using traditional leaders to speak to their subjects or rather tell their subjects (as has been the case in most communities) that they need to act or they face a charge for not having a toilet pit at their home OK?