As sanitation and hygiene programmes mature, the challenge shifts from bringing communities to open defecaton free (ODF) status to sustaining this status. In this context, many programmes are confronted with the issue of slippage. This concept refers to a return to previous unhygienic behaviours, or the inability of some or all community members to continue to meet all ODF criteria. This paper explores how to discern slippage nuances and patterns, strategies to address, pre-empt and mitigate it as well as alternative monitoring systems that capture the complexity of slippage more fully.
I managed the production and dissemination of the GSF reflection paper (English/French), which which remains one of the most downloaded and talked about GSF publications. The publication was the most downloaded WSSCC product in 2016. Download the publication
Okechukwu Umelo 