Resources: About approach, children

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  • Findings of a study of SLTS programs run by ENPHO, NRCS, DTO and DWSS, the four SLTS facilitating organizations in Chitwan, Nepal’s Sanitation Model District. Based on four case studies, the report discusses how financial and participation mechanisms, institutional involvement, and technical support, as well as local factors, influence SLTS outcomes. The report also shares challenges identified in the case studies and provides recommendations for improving the approach.

  • Between the 23rd and the 25th August 2010, twenty participants from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, the Netherlands, Uganda, the UK and Zambia gathered in Nairobi to discuss School-led Total Sanitation (SLTS) and children’s involvement in Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS). The aim of the workshop was to gather existing experience in these areas, as well as to brainstorm on key issues and ways forward. The event also gave an opportunity for practitioners from different countries and organisations interested in the role of children and schools in CLTS to network and make linkages for follow up.

  • Overview of the components of SLTS and its implementation in Nepal to date by Kamal Adhikari (2010), Department of Water Supply and Sewerage, Nepal.

  • Short note by Daniel Sarpong, Plan Ghana, describing children’s involvement in CLTS in one community in the Central Region of Ghana.

  • This paper by Anupma Verma of Knowledge Links, India, describes her experience of triggering CLTS with children in schools and villages. She gives examples of how children have acted as change agents in Himachal Pradesh, Uttrakhand and in some other states of India. She also incorporates her recent experience of triggering CLTS with children in Cambodia.

  • Note by Amrit Mehta of Knowledge Links, India, on his experience of CLTS triggering with children in schools as well as in villages. It shows that children can act as a powerful agents of change within communities.

  • This comprehensive manual describes the concept of School-led Total Sanitation, its key components, key strategies and step by step activities, based on the implementation experience in Nepal.

  • by Anupma Verma, Knowledge Links, India

    One pager on how women and girls in Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Uttrakhand have used a Gandhian approach for persuading those who continue to defecate in the open to change their behaviour.

  • by Afrianto Kurniawan

    One pager on how to trigger in schools based on experiences in Indonesia.

  • by JP Shukla, Knowledge Links, India

    One pager on triggering in schools in the states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Meghalaya in India.

  • Dissertation by Katie Fernandez submitted as part of the MSc Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. (September 2008)