Resources: Research papers, IDS

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Survey of Recent Sanitation Achievement in Himachal Pradesh

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.
The Dynamics and Sustainability of CLTS: Mapping challenges and pathways

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.
What Communication and Institutional Arrangements Influence Sanitation Related Social Norms in Rural India?

Dyalchand, Ashok, Khale, Manisha and S. Vasudevan (2009)

This paper which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation explores effective strategies for initiating social change in sanitation behaviours from a social norms perspective examining the question: “What components of a communication strategy influence sanitation behaviours and how are they mediated?”
Impact of Rural Sanitation on Water Quality and Water Borne Diseases
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.
Report from the IDS Conference on CLTS (16th-18th December 2008)

From the 16th- to 18th December 2008, IDS held a conference on CLTS which formed part of the DFID-funded project Going to Scale: The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation in which IDS has been engaged in over the last few years. The conference marked the end of the Year of Sanitation 2008 and presented some of the research findings, as well as being an opportunity to share and learn from experiences of CLTS / sanitation with a wide audience from around the world and to tease out implications for wider development agendas.
The Sanitation Story of the Millennium: The India Chapter

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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Community-Led Total Sanitation and its Successors in Bangladesh: 3 Case Studies

Howes, Mick and Huda, Enamul (2009)

These three case studies which form part of the IDS research project “Going to Scale?
Institutions, Incentives and Politics: CLTS in India and Indonesia

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.
Shit Matters: Community-Led Total Sanitation and the Sanitation Challenge for the 21st Century

Lyla Mehta (2009)

This is a DRAFT. The final paper will appear in the forthcoming book (due to be published by Practical Action in late 2010) edited by Lyla Mehta and Synne Movik.
Please do not cite without permission of the author.

This paper which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation situates CLTS in history and within the context of wider sanitation debates.
CLTS- Learning from Communities in Indonesia

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.
Natural Leaders Emerged Through CLTS Approach In Bangladesh (Profile and Market Promotion)

Enamul Huda (2009)

This paper which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation draws up a profile of Natural Leaders (NL) in Bangladesh and explores their market promotion. It is based on data collected through action research with NGOs such as CARE-SDU, VERC and Dishari (DAM-Plan Bangladesh).
Hunger, Subsidies and Process Facilitation: Challenges for Community-Led Total Sanitation in Bangladesh

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.
Institutional Dimensions of Scaling Up CLTS in Indonesia

Edy Priyono, AKADEMIKA-Center for Public Policy Analysis (2009)

The study which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale: The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation focuses on the institutional dimensions of scaling up of CLTS in Indonesia. The research paper explores the impacts of institutional arrangements on CLTS in terms of speed of implementation, success of implementation and spread.
The CLTS Story in Indonesia: Empowering communities, transforming institutions, furthering decentralization

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.
Doing CLTS in a Countrywide Program Context in India: Public Good v Private Good

Nisheeth Kumar and J.P.Shukla, Knowledge Links (2009)

This paper which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation examines the factors that have been instrumental in adoption and spread of CLTS in India. It mainly looks at two aspects, those factors internal to the CLTS process of training and triggering on the one hand, and those external to CLTS and located within the larger operating environment, on the other.
Community Led Total Sanitation in Bangladesh: Chronicles of a People’s Movement

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.
Social Dynamics of CLTS: Inclusion of children, women and vulnerable

Amina Mahbub (2009)

This study which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation looks at the intensity and significance of the participation of women and children in CLTS processes in several villages of Dinajpur District, Bangladesh. It also seeks to identify the extent of inclusion of the extreme poor and marginalised in the process and their experience over time.
Going to Scale with Community-led Total Sanitation: Reflections on Experience, Issues and Ways Forward

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.

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