Learning from ODF Districts in Mozambique

With 30% of Mozambique’s rural population still practicing open defecation, the country urgently needs to accelerate results to achieve SDG 6.2. After over a decade of work by the Government and key partners including UNICEF, six districts have recently been declared open defecation free. This paper shares findings from a review commissioned by UNICEF in 2023 to understand the enablers and barriers to success in these districts, and inform national and global discussion on how sub-national systems can be better supported to drive progress towards area-wide sanitation.