SanLearn 2022 was a sanitation learning event which was organized in Negombo, Sri Lanka in the month of November 2022. It was organized to bring together key stakeholders working on sanitation issues in the region.

The learning event was supported and facilitated by UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA), CLTS Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and Regional Sanitation Center (RSC) for South Asia, wherein internationally recognized sanitation experts were invited. SanLearn 2022 intended to bring together senior government officials, key decision-makers and technical staff from different countries to engage in discussion and seek common solutions to eliminate open defecation and scale up access to safely managed sanitation.

The CLTS Foundation was engaged by the Nepal Country Office to undertake a comprehensive analysis and an evaluation of the ODF programme and to also identify lessons learned to help better planning and designing interventions for ensuring ODF sustainability. They had also been tasked with assessing how effectively gender and equity dimensions have been addressed. All these elements were a key focus of the SanLearn conference which is a regional knowledge sharing and capacity development event. CLTS Foundation’s findings from Nepal were critically important learnings for participants attending the event to develop their capacities and in helping them achieving SDG 6.2 in South Asia, where tremendous strides have been made in eliminating ODF, but with a lot more yet to be done.