Handbook on Community-led Total Sanitation

Kamal Kar with Robert Chambers (2008). IDS and Plan UK.

This handbook contains comprehensive information on CLTS, its pre-triggering, triggering and post-triggering stages, as well as examples and case studies from around the world.

NEW Now also available in French Manuel de l’assainissement total par la communauté , Spanish Manual sobre saneamiento total liderado por la comunidad , Hindi and Bengali

An Arabic translation is being prepared and a Portuguese version is available on request from UNICEF Mozambique (The document’s size is too large to be uploaded on the website)

To obtain hardcopies of the handbook, please email