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

IDS In Focus Policy Briefing 10
Petra Bongartz and Robert Chambers with inputs and advice from Kamal Kar. Edited by Carol Smithyes. (July 2009)

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.

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)
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
How Manera became the first ODF village in Homa Bay

Short account of Manera’s long but successful journey to ODF by Philip Otieno of Plan Kenya.
CLTS workshop in the hometown of Mahatma Gandhi

Short report and photos from a hands-on CLTS Training of Trainers workshop for NGO workers and district officials which took place in Porbander, Gujarat, India, the birthplace of Gandhi, in December 2009.
Film on CLTS in East Garo Hills, District of Meghalaya, India

A new film on the CLTS experience in East Garo Hills in Meghalaya is now available for download from the Government of India’s Department for Drinking Water website (see the small brown box on the upper left side of the page).
Zambian TV drama series incorporates CLTS storyline

In the Zambian soap opera Banja on muvitv , CLTS has become a hot topic!

Banja is televised every weekday at 20:00 hrs Zambian time, except Wednesdays when it is shown at 19:00. It is repeated on Sundays as an omnibus from 10:45 -12:00.

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