Increasing household toilet investments through CLUES: lessons from Ashaiman Municipal Assembly, Ghana

Community-Led Urban Environmental Sanitation (CLUES) is a planning approach piloted in Ghana as a sanitation demand creation and triggering method to increase household investment in toilet facilities. It is implemented by the Government of Ghana in Ashaiman Municipal Assembly with technical support from People’s Dialogue on Human Settlements and funding from UNICEF-Ghana. This paper provides results from the implementation process. Within a year of actual implementation, over 800 households in Ashaiman’s largely informal settlements expressed interest in sanitation investment with over 300 already with complete functional toilets.