Resources: About approach, Asia

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.

Lessons learned from the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project (RWSSP) in Western Nepal which uses an adaptation of CLTS.

by Chhabi Goudel

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.

Report from a Training of Trainer’s workshop carried out by Knowledge Links (India) for the Department of Rural Health Care, Ministry of Rural Development (MRD) and UNICEF Cambodia. Read the brief report or the full version

by Devi Setiawan, WSP Indonesia

One pager on monitoring community progress towards ODF via sms gateways.

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 Anupma Verma, Knowledge Links, India.

One pager on how a sense of competition amongst village chiefs in Himachal Pradesh, India, has motivated them to work with their communities to achieve ODF.

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.

Short report and newsletter by Sangat Development Foundation (SDF) on their CLTS activities in Nawabshah district in the Sindh province of Pakistan.

A three day CLTS workshop was organized by Knowledge Links in Alibag Municipal Area of Raigad district in Maharashtra from the 26th to 28th August 2008. The workshop aimed at exposing the participants to the concept and practice of CLTS through hands-on experience. Process of CLTS triggering in an urban context was the main focus of the programme. Solid waste management was underlined as the main sanitation concern in Alibag town.

By Nipun Vinayak (2006)

Beyond Sanitation is the story of the CLTS campaign in the Jalna district of Maharashtra, India.