Number of improved household latrines constructed and functioning (PMP No. 5) In terms of household latrine activities, 2,116 household latrines have been completed to date. This figure practically doubles the 1,071 latrines that we reported in April 2012, meaning that the GWASH project built almost as many latrines in the past six months as we had built in the prior 30 months combined. Now that our institutional latrine targets have been achieved, we can shift more personnel from the community and institutional efforts to working full time on our CLTS and household latrine building initiatives. This will undoubtedly reap benefits in terms of the speed within which we build the next 1,000 latrines. We estimate that at our current pace, and with 1,241 more latrines already at varying levels of construction, we should be able to report 3,800 latrines completed by March 2013. This pace will bring the remaining balance of latrines into the three figure range during the final six months of the project. Beneficiary excited about completed household latrine As the low subsidy CLTS approach evolved, however, the GWASH project had to take a step back and evaluate what was successful and what needed to be improved upon. This meeting, which was held in early October 2012, provided a number of lessons learned from the initial foray into implementing the hybrid approach. As a result of this discussion, a number of decisions were made:
