Please contact Metamorphosis at:
17-19, Boyle Street, Flat 1B2, Onikan,
Lagos, Nigeria
T: 234 (01) 2632131
Mobile: 0802 3014896, 0803 306 8248
E: enquiries@metamorphosis-nigeria.org
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Strategies
The key strategies adopted are through advocacy, development communication tools and partnerships.
Advocacy
Through advocacy, Metamorphosis ensures that stakeholders in the target areas of intervention are made to understand and believe in the right to a dignified way of life. This ensures their direct involvement in the development process.
Development Communication Tools
During and after the construction of public convenience facilities in the target areas. Stakeholders are sensitized on the existence of the newly constructed facility and how to use it. Safe hygiene practices are communicated to them through the use of effective development communication tools, such as development films, theatre for development, culturally sensitive publications and radio productions. People are taught the links between diseases and unsafe hygiene practices. The simple act of washing hands with soap after using the toilet can reduce diarrhea by 40%.
Partnerships
Metamorphosis works in partnership with Government, private-sector organizations and donor agencies to implement environment and sanitation projects.
The Need For Sanitary Interventions In Parts of West Africa.
The teeming population in most cities in Nigeria lack access to safe water, sanitation and basic hygiene. Consequently, many lives (a high percentage being children) are lost daily to diseases related to the consumption of unsafe water and poor hygiene practices and many other cases related to unsanitary disposal of human excreta. Clean water and sanitation are the most basic services essential to life. Without them, vulnerable communities are trapped in a negative cycle of poverty and disease. The City of Lagos is faced with the modern phenomenon of rural-urban migration. Literally, hundreds of people settle in Lagos on a daily basis in search of employment and a better way of life. Many end up living in unplanned settlements which have no access to basic social services. The inadequate provision of sanitary facilities has led to the unhealthy habit of people urinating and defecating openly. To help reduce this environmental hazard, people particularly the poor and disadvantaged need to be taught the links between diseases and unsafe sanitary and hygiene practices.
Hygiene education provides the key to poverty reduction and human development. It focuses on issues such as personal hygiene. The simple act of hand washing with soap after using the toilet or handling raw meat reduces diarrhea by 40%.
Previous acts by the Government to tackle these environmental health challenges have been largely unsuccessful. This is largely due to poor planning and implementation on the part of Government to address serious environmental and sanitation issues that have a profound effect on human development.
How we work
Metamorphosis works in partnership with Governments, private sector organizations and donor agencies to implement environment and sanitation initiatives
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