Sanitation Learning Hub (SLH), a United Kingdom based learning and research programme focused on sanitation and hygiene in low and lower-middle income countries, has appointed Nanpet Chuktu, as its in country focal person for Nigeria.
In this capacity, Nanpet will work to build on the gains of 2022 and to strengthen a number of learning research and learning opportunities in Nigeria with a proposed study on sustainability and slippage, as well as monthly webinars with the network of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in WASH (NEWSAN).
Chuktu has 17 years of experience in the development sector, with a significant part of that managing one of Nigeria’s largest sanitation-focused programme, and a model set by the Federal government (of Nigeria) to be a model programme for taking sanitation to scale – he Rural Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion in Nigeria (RUSHPIN) Programme. RUSHPIN was financed with a grant of the Global Sanitation Fund/Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) to Nigeria. Previously worked with United Purpose Nigeria where he led a team to achieve Nigeria’s first Open Defecation Free (ODF) Local Government Authority in 2016.
The SLH aims to develop an understanding of the priority sanitation and hygiene issues, concerns and challenges faced within Nigeria; strengthen regional and international networks and platforms for sharing and learning; support the Sanitation Learning Hub (SLH) with strategic decision-making, and co-develop country-specific activities to make sure our work is timely, actionable and relevant.
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