Resources

Beyond Subsidies- Triggering a Revolution in Rural Sanitation (In Focus Policy Briefing)

This In Focus Policy Briefing asks how we can maximise the great potential for transforming rural sanitation that CLTS offers.
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.

Also available in French (Manuel de l’assainissement total par la communauté), Spanish (Manual sobre saneamiento total liderado por la comunidad), Hindi and Bengali.

A Portuguese version is available on request from UNICEF Mozambique (The document’s size is too large to be uploaded on the website)

A Khmer translation is available from Plan Cambodia

An Arabic translation is being prepared.
Subsidy or Self-Respect? Participatory Total Community Sanitation in Bangladesh

Kamal Kar (2003). IDS Working Paper 184

Access to latrines in rural areas of Bangladesh is less than 15 per cent. Many international agencies and non-governmental organisations have been working to improve environmental sanitation by constructing latrines and toilets with subsidies provided at different rates. But even after three decades of such efforts it is difficult to find 100 villages from amongst nearly 85,000 that are totally sanitised and free from open
Practical Guide to Triggering Community-Led Total Sanitation

Kamal Kar (2005). IDS

This basic ‘how-to’ guide aims to help frontline staff and field facilitators to understand the philosophy and principles of CLTS, and to use some of the practical tools and techniques flexibly and freely.

Also available in Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, French and Lao.
Subsidy or Self-Respect? Community Led Total Sanitation. An Update on Recent Developments

Kamal Kar and Katherine Pasteur (2005). IDS Working Paper 257
Community Led Total Sanitation – a step towards greater Livelihood Security. Accelerating Progress in Asia

Powerpoint presentation, including several photos, by Kamal Kar, March 2006
Facilitating “Hands-on” Training Workshops for CLTS: A Trainer's Training Guide

Download this manual
for guidance on how
to conduct training of
CLTS facilitators.
CLTS tools from Malawi

A useful set of tools devised by EWB Volunteers Ashley Raeside and Jolly Ann Maulit in consultation with Malawi district CLTS leaders and practitioners.
National Sanitation Revolution- lessons learned by RWSSP Nepal

Lessons learned from the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project (RWSSP) in Western Nepal which uses an adaptation of CLTS.

by Chhabi Goudel
Report from National Training on CLTS in The Gambia

Report from a national CLTS training workshop in Bwiam, Western Province, organised by UNICEF and the Gambian Ministry of Health & Social Welfare.

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