Ghana has adopted the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) as the rural basic sanitation promotion approach. This approach thus, replaces the subsidy approach which failed to bring an end to open defecation (OD). Since 2010, the country has made efforts to scale up CLTS to all districts. The Government-led implementation has concentrated its efforts in four regions - Upper West, Northern, Volta and Central Regions. While there are reports of success in some disitricts where the approach has been implemented, there remain some challenges that need to be addressed.
Basic Sanitation is the lowest-cost technology ensuring hygienic excreta and sullage disposal and a clean and healthy living environment both at home and in the neighbourhood.
BaSIS is a decentralised M & E sanitation system developed to aid in the implementation of CLTS (Community-Led Total Sanitation), at both sub-national and national levels. The system is built to populate data collected from approved sources based on some sanitation indices in the form of maps, charts and tables. BaSIS, on varying levels of usage, will easily aid policy makers, governments and investors in decision-making.
As the system presents to users a more-visualised appproach to viewing sanitation data, further analysis could as well be carried out properly.
Interactive map allows users to filter and visualize desired datasets for spatial analysis.
One can generate custom or predefined reports depending on requirements.
Backend is for managing data, data validation and quality assurance and to manage users and authentication levels.
BaSIS has a rich spatial database that is constantly being updated in real time.
