Resources: Handbooks

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Training Guide for CLTS Facilitators (Uganda)

    This manual intends to guide community facilitators in promoting the CLTS approach for improved sanitation and ensuing benefits. The handbook outlines the background to CLTS as well as its potential in bringing about positive behaviour and enumerates a step by step guide to promoting CLTS. It is hoped that this handbook will inspire trainers, practitioners, managers and policy-makers to ensure high standards of preparation, facilitation and follow up support; and that it will discourage target oriented approaches which degenerate into counting latrines and meeting targets for their construction, instead of assessing with rigorous standards the numbers of communities that truly achieve ODF status.

  • Training of Trainer’s Manual (Uganda)

    This training guide, developed by the Ministry of Health, WSP and Plan is for master trainers/trainers of CLTS trainers who are leading workshops on CLTS for district and community trainers and facilitators. The manual is designed to lead master trainers through sessions on different topics by providing insight into CLTS methodologies, participatory activities and key messages for each session.

  • CLTS Facilitator's Field Guide (Uganda)

    This guide, put together by the Ministry of Health, Government of Uganda, WSP and Plan, provides useful background for CLTS Facilitators, looking at

    • What is Community-Led Total Sanitation?
    • What is the aim of CLTS?
    • Who is this field guide for?
    • Who is a CLTS facilitator?
    • The sequence of steps for pre-triggering, triggering and post-triggering
  • Luanda: Província Sem Defecação Ao Ar Livre

    Manual Para Capacitação E Formação Dos Facilitadores Municipais Na Abordagem Do Saneamento Total Liderado Pela Comunidade
    Maio 2009

  • CLTS training manual for Natural Leaders

    Training Manual designed by the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS), UNICEF and GOAL to help support Natural Leaders during the pre-triggering, triggering and follow-up of CLTS communities.

  • Adoption of CLTS: Guidance for programming of CLTS in Tearfund-supported projects

    These Guidelines, based on Tearfund’s early experience of CLTS and taking into account the experiences of other organisations which have implemented CLTS, are intended to assist Tearfund partners and Disaster Management Teams in robust programming of CLTS, particularly in addressing the issues of environmentally and physically safe sanitation systems, and the issue of achieving safe sanitation systems equitably throughout a community
    following a CLTS campaign.

  • Facilitating “Hands-on” Training Workshops for CLTS: A Trainer's Training Guide

    Kamal Kar’s Trainers’ Training Guide on Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), published by the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC).

  • Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes for Excellent CLTS Facilitation

    One page poster that summarises the key knowledge, skills and attitudes that CLTS facilitators must possess to excel in CLTS.

  • Process Recorder Form

    One page tool that gives guidance on what information may be useful to record during triggering to help extension with follow up.

    Developed by Ashley Raeside (EWB) together with the CLTS management teams from Salima and Mzimba District.

  • Chichewa Facilitators Guide on CLTS

    Kabuku Kotsogolera
    Ndondomeko zopititsira patsogolo ntchito za ukhondo motsogozedwa ndi eni dera

    This Facilitators’ Guide has been prepared by Engineers without Borders, Canada, 2009, based on and including translated materials from the CLTS Handbook and the Practical Guide to Triggering CLTS.

  • CLTS Toolkit in Nepali

    The CLTS Handbook for Facilitators (in Nepali and English version)
    The Nepali CLTS handbook was published by WASH-RCNN (Resource Centre Network Nepal) in December 2007 to assist community facilitators in adopting CLTS approach as an effective approach for sanitation promotion in Nepal. The booklet is based on experiences of adopting the approach in the Nepali context. The Nepali version was launched on 5 March 2008 during the Symposium on ‘Sanitation Approaches and Technologies in Nepal’. The English version was produced in 2009.

  • Training of Trainers’ Manual on Community-driven Total Sanitation by WSP

    This training manual, published by WSP in October 2007, is based on a training curriculum developed by Dr. Kamal Kar, initiator of community-led total sanitation in rural areas. This curriculum has been through extensive field testing and both the curriculum and guidance notes have been refined based on a series of policy discussions, workshops and interactions with national, state and local governments and expert practitioners in South Asia.

  • Practical Guide to Triggering Community-Led Total Sanitation (Arabic)

    Practical Guide to Triggering Community-Led Total Sanitation in Arabic

    الدليل التطبيقي
    لإطلاق الصرف الصحي الكامل بقيادة المجتمع

    دليل تطبيقي للمرشدين
    قائم على الخبرة الميدانية في ثمان دول في جنوب وجنوب شرق آسيا وكذلك في شرق أفريقيا

  • Practical Guide to Triggering Community-Led Total Sanitation (Chinese)

    Practical Guide to Triggering Community-Led Total Sanitation in Chinese

    启动社区引导的整体公共卫生的
    实用指南

    这个实用指南是由一线推广员工使用的,是基于在南亚、东南亚和
    东非的至少八个不同的国家协调 CLTS 的经验而得出的