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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.

    Also available in French (Manuel de l’assainissement total par la communauté), Spanish (Manual sobre saneamiento total liderado por la comunidad), Hindi and Bengali.

    A Portuguese version is available on request from UNICEF Mozambique (The document’s size is too large to be uploaded on the website)

    A Khmer translation is available from Plan Cambodia

    An Arabic translation is being prepared.

  • 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.

    Also available in Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, French and Lao.

  • 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

    Hot off the Press Kamal Kar’s Trainers’ Training Guide on Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) has just been 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

    On 5 March 2008 the Resource Centre Network Nepal (RCNN) launched the CLTS Toolkit booklet during the Symposium on ‘Sanitation Approaches and Technologies in Nepal’.
    The booklet focuses on Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) practices and awareness raising to be used by facilitators in the communities.

  • 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