Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) The widespread open defecation and a lack of solid waste collection are huge challenges in Namibia’s informal settlements located in the urban and peri-urban areas. This has led to the proliferation of contaminated green spaces which have since become health and safety hazard zones especially for children. The scope of this activity is to: Launch Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) awareness to increase hygiene through the community construction of latrines at household level in urban and peri-urban areas throughout the HPPII period. FY 2021/2022 - Construct 1600 toilets FY 2022/2023 - Construct 1600 toilets FY 2023/2024 - Construct 1600 toilets FY 2024/2025 - Construct 1600 toilets

2.5.2Elimination of bucket toilets In the absence of adequate infrastructure and provision for waste management, healthy options for sanitation are lacking especially in informal settlements and rural areas and thus people often resort to using the undignified and unhygienic bucket toilet system which carries significant health risks. Therefore, the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development (MURD) working together with the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform and other developmental partners targets to sustain investments into the development of bulk water and sewer infrastructure, so as to eliminate the remaining 483 bucket toilets, by 2022.