Community Led Total Sanitation in Bangladesh: Chronicles of a People’s Movement

Shafiul Azam Ahmed (2009)

This study which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation traces the development and history of CLTS in Bangladesh. It details the political economy at work behind CLTS’s fast transition from a local approach to a national intervention. The paper presents a number of challenges that CLTS now faces in Bangladesh, in particular with regard to scaling up.