Resources: IDS

This paper draws on the extensive involvement of Kamal Kar with the spread of CLTS in Africa to describe the early stages of the process, to elaborate on its developments and to outline insights into the circumstances and features which have facilitated its rapid spread. Taking a broadly comparative approach which draws on the somewhat earlier experience of the spread of CLTS in Asia, it identifies aspects of the institutionalisation process and circumstances, including key individuals, that have contributed to the success of the approach in Africa.

Robert Chambers talks about the revolutionary potential of CLTS in his guest blog on Duncan Green’s From Poverty to Power blog

At the STEPS Water and Sanitation Symposium on the 22nd and 23rd March 2011, Kamal Kar gave a presentation on the scope and challenges of CLTS.

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Jon Lane, Executive Director of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSCC) discusses the barriers to progress on water & sanitation and the Millennium Development Goals at the STEPS Centre’s Water & Sanitation Symposium in Brighton, 22 March 2011.

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Empowering self-help sanitation of rural and peri-urban communities and schools in Africa
Programme partners: Plan Nederland + Plan WARO and RESA, IRC, IDS

Programme period: July 2009 – June 2014 (5 years)

Total budget: € 8,452,000 (including € 2,852,000 as investments by the target group)

Programme country background and overview of progress: (these will be continually updated)

West Africa:

• Ghana

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.

Follow the regional sharing and learning workshops in Zambia and Mali as they unfold.

From the 15th to the 19th of November 2010, IDS, supported by UNICEF, Plan International, WaterAid and WSSCC, held a Regional Sharing and Learning Workshop on CLTS. Around 45 participants from 12 anglophone countries in Africa gathered in Lusaka in order to share experiences, learn from each other, network, energise and strengthen the approach in the region. A similar workshop was also held in Mali for francophone African countries from the 29th November to the 3rd December 2010.

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Almost 60 participants from eight countries in the South East Asia and Pacific region gathered between the 9th and the 13th November 2009 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to talk about Community-led Total Sanitation.

In Stockholm for World Water Week ? World Water Week

Please join the STEPS Centre’s water team led by Dr Lyla Mehta for lunchtime coffee and cake, straight after the Closing Plenary on Friday 21st August.