Resources: Research papers

In 2010, IDS commissioned a small study on the sustainability of Himachal Pradesh’s efforts in rural sanitation in the last few years. Deepak Sanan, Principal Secretary to the Government of Himachal Pradesh for the Departments of Energy, Urban Development, Town and Country Planning and Housing designed the survey and trained Pradeep Chauhan and Vinod Rana who then co-ordinated the survey work. Vinod Rana carried out the data analysis.

This Working Paper by Synne Movik and Lyla Mehta seeks to map out and understand the social, technological and ecological dynamics of CLTS implementation in order to better appreciate the long-term sustainability issues of CLTS and realise its full potential for improving people’s lives and well-being.

Over 2008/09, WaterAid completed a multi-country research study exploring sustainability and equity aspects of community led sanitation initiatives (Community led total sanitation, CLTS) in Bangladesh, Nepal and Nigeria.

The purpose of the study was to contribute to the global understanding of community-wide open defecation-free approaches, with a focus on the extent to which these approaches result in sustained and equitable improvements in sanitation behaviour.

Review of Concern Worldwide’s CLTS pilot programme in the north
east of Laos. The review was carried out by SNV and Concern Worldwide in
September 2009.

Manisha Khale and Ashok Dyalchand (2009)

This paper which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation looks at the impact of the CLTS approach on rural sanitation by comparing access to toilets at the family level, toilet use, open defecation (OD) rates, quality of drinking water and the impact of these on health as measured by reported prevalence of diarrhoea and worm infestation in children under the age of six in three types of villages:

• Villages where the sanitation programme was implemented through a Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) strategy.
• Villages where sanitation programme was implemented through a Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) strategy
• Villages with no sanitation improvement programme in the recent past.

Deepak Sanan (2009)

This paper which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation traces the history of CLTS in India.

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Anu Joshi (2009)

The study which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale: The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation focuses on some of the institutional issues that emerge as significant in understanding the adoption, spread and institutionalization of CLTS within public bureaucracies.

Owin Jamasy and Nina Shatifan (2009)

This paper forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation. Based on villagers’ experiences in nine villages that have used the CLTS approach, it seeks to identify factors that have promoted or hindered progress. It concludes that there is no single factor that determines success but rather a constellation of facilitating factors supported by village level leadership.

Anowarul Haq and Brigitta Bode (2009)

This paper which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation discusses key dynamics around the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach in CARE Bangladesh’ Nijeder Janyia Nijera (We for Ourselves) project. CLTS is a powerful approach to achieve sanitation and can be used as an entry point to build solidarity and provide a platform for other development initiatives.

Nilanjana Mukherjee and Nina Shatifan (2009)

This paper which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation traces the history of CLTS in Indonesia and discusses the way forward to fully realize its potential not only as a tool for sanitation but to support the broader decentralization agenda in the country.

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.
 

Robert Chambers (March 2009)

In this IDS Practice Paper, which forms part of the action learning component of the project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation, Robert Chambers reviews the experience gained with CLTS in Asia and Africa as it has spread over the last few years, explores options and ways forward for the future.