Resources: Research papers, research

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.

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.

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?”

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.

Howes, Mick and Huda, Enamul (2009)

These three case studies which form part of the IDS research project “Going to Scale?

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Please do not cite without permission of the author.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.

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).

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.

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.

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.