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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Handwashing in Mutara, MozambiqueHandwashing in Mutara, MozambiqueRecently we have had a very lively debate about a number of key issues, so rather than keeping those discussions limited to emails flying back and forth between a few people, I am going to share them here.

  • It feels like more than a year since I blogged. No sooner did I come back to work on the 9th January 2012 than was I forced by circumstances to take compassionate leave to be with my mother and family after our dear sister (my immediate follower) passed on. It was painful but we are adjusting to the loss. Funerals and sanitation in Africa are closely related. We could not help but quickly agree with my family that with the influx of many people coming to console the family and to attend the burial itself, that we needed do something.

    Mourning periods in Kenya last for long.

  • As part of CLTS, communities are recognized for their efforts and commitment to attaining Open Defecation Free (ODF) status. They are commemorated with a large ODF celebration, rewarding communities for playing a dedicated role in improving their sanitation and hygiene practices, and truly taking ownership over their health.

    Plan Malawi in partnership with the Mulanje District health and sanitation stakeholders, had successfully implemented CLTS and supported their communities in becoming ODF.

  • On the 20th January, four villages in Mulanje were declared ODF by Plan International and the government of Malawi. “[I]mproving sanitation condition of Malawi ensures the country’s own bright future,” said Bolaji Akinboro, Plan’s Country Director.

  • Chibuzor for Human Resource Development Organisation (CHIDO) together with UNICEF, Kenema District Council and other partners celebrates the ODF certification on 32 communities in Tunkia Chiefdom and has plans to make the whole district ODF.

  • Few Indian women can afford sanitary towels. But one social entrepreneur aims to change that, and provide an income too: Arunachalam Muruganantham went to great lengths to develop an effective solution, even wearing sanitary towels and a device filled with blood himself to test his innovations.

  • UNICEF and Plan South Sudan are working together to roll out CLTS in South Sudan. I have been supporting them to build capacity for CLTS implementation since April 2011. So far, a total of 5 trainings has been conducted in 5 states, namely Central Equatoria, Jonglei, Upper Nile, Western Equatorial and Western Bhar El Gazel. The trainings have targeted Plan and UNICEF staff and their partners, such as the line ministries and the national NGOs being supported by UNICEF.

  • Desde la introducción del SANTOLIC a Bolivia en 2006, se han tenido experiencias en diferentes regiones en Bolivia y de diferentes organizaciones o instituciones, cuyos resultados están relacionados a las potencialidades y limitaciones del método. Por otra parte, se ha intentado “bolivianizar” el método, sin embargo no se ha podido sistematizar esta evolución en cada una de las regiones y considerando la pertinencia social, cultural y técnica.

    El objetivo de este taller de reflexión fue el intercambio de experiencias de implementación del método en las distintas regiones con el fin de analizar las posibilidades de ampliación, como parte de la política pública para reducir las brechas en la cobertura de saneamiento en las zonas rurales de Bolivia.

  • En el segundo semestre de 2009, con el Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Agua se acordó implementar un proyecto piloto para sistematizar y evaluar las condiciones de aplicación del SANTOLIC en Bolivia. Con la anuencia del MMAyA se inició la ejecución del Plan de Acción Piloto en febrero de 2010.

  • Plan Pakistan with the help of a local partner, Integrated Regional Support Programme (IRSP), and supported by UNICEF is working to change the state of sanitation in Pakistan. CLTS is used to trigger communities but in order to sustain demand, Plan’s local partners remain in contact the communities through community resource persons. Thee resource persons conduct follow on hygiene sessions. Additionally, the electronic and print media are utilized in order to ensure communities do not slip back to open defecation and keep on climbing up on sanitation ladder.

  • Case study from Mardan, NWFP, of a 22 year old woman from a very conservative Pathan background, who initially worked as a volunteer hygiene promoter for Integrated Rural Support Programme (IRSP), trained in CLTS, PRA and other approaches and then felt empowered to mobilise awareness around sanitation and hygiene in her communities.

  • The equity day at the WSSCC Global Forum in Mumbai (October 2011) made a deep impact on me. I am ashamed to admit this. I should not have needed this. I have been banging on about ‘putting the last first’ for years, but the fuller implications of this with sanitation only came home to me on this day. Thank you those who came and shared their experiences with us –rehabilitated manual cleaners, slum dwellers, disabled, minorities… and Louisa Gosling, Archana Patkar and Nomathemba Neseni and who pulled scales from my eyes.

  • Inspiring case study of Mohamed Yahya, who has not let physical limitations get in the way of his enthusiasm, commitment and dedication to become a fulltime CLTS facilitator and contribute to the wellbeing of the communities in the Adrar region of Mauritania.
    Read about the CLTS facilitator like no other

  • Case study on how various field level stakeholders interact to promote CLTS in their villages, based on the experience in Chikwina Health Centre in Nkhata Bay District
    The study looked at Traditional Leaders, Health Surveillance Assistants (HSAs, extension staff for health) and Natural Leaders as stakeholders in the CLTS process.

  • Case study from Chitipa District Council on the effectiveness of Natural Leaders and how they can best be utilised for CLTS success. This study presents suggestions for potential changes which can be made regarding support to Natural Leaders so that they can work at scale in Malawi.
    By Karina Redick, Junior Fellow 2011, Malawi Water and Sanitation Team, EWB Canada

  • Case study on the effects of integrating CLTS into routine Health Surveillance Assistant (HSA) work (the extension staff for the health department) in Salima district, based on action research carried out at the Maganga Rural Health Centre.

  • The recently launched strategy for creating an ODF Malawi by 2015 is giving a boost to CLTS activities in communities where open defecation used to be the order of the day.

  • Description of a CLTS training workshop that was jointly organised by Plan Sudan and Goal Ireland in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Health and the Khartoum State Ministry of Health and took place from the 17th to 21st December 2011.

  • Thanks to CLTS the sanitation landscape and people’s lives, are changing in Homa Bay.

  • Dear Colleagues in CLTS and sanitation

    Please help fill what I think is an important gap which becomes more important by the day.

    Over 40 countries are implementing CLTS. Campaigns are in full swing or starting in many of these. Campaigns – whether national, regional, district or subdistrict, or any combination of these – are vital and central to success. But there is no single source book for them. Can we between us produce one? It needs a pooling of ideas and experience.

  • Over 40 countries are implementing CLTS. 15 have adopted it as their official approach for rural sanitation. More and more countries, regions within countries, and districts, are mounting campaigns for total sanitation through CLTS. Drawing on experiences with campaigns in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Sierra Leone and other countries, this note by Robert Chambers lists approaches and actions which have contributed to success and other practical ideas. The core of CLTS is triggering, post-triggering follow-up, verification, and post ODF sustainability and progress. Campaigns include all these together with much more. It is mainly the ‘much more’ that is summarised here. This checklist is a practical tool for those who plan and implement campaigns

  • On the 7th December 2011, the Government of Malawi (GoM) through the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education and key line ministries in collaboration with development partners, NGOs, private sector, communities and key sector players, officially launched the ODF Malawi Strategy (2012-2015).

    Read more about the strategy

    Read a Press Release in The Nation 6th December 2011