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Ending open defecation in rural Pakistan

Plan Pakistan with the help of a local partner, Integrated Regional Support Programme (IRSP), and supported by UNICEF is working to change the state of sanitation in Pakistan. CLTS is used to trigger communities but in order to sustain demand, Plan’s local partners remain in contact the communities through community resource persons. Thee resource persons conduct follow on hygiene sessions. Additionally, the electronic and print media are utilized in order to ensure communities do not slip back to open defecation and keep on climbing up on sanitation ladder.
'Children come up with solutions every time!': A case study from Uganda

The story of Katharine Omachie, a member of the Village Health Team in the Katipe community, in Tororo, Uganda, who is engaged in CLTS with children and has already triggered three primary schools through the approach.
Hope out of conflict – How sanitation plays a vital role in protecting women and children from sexual violence in DRC

Working in the North-Kivu province of DRC, the Programme de Promotion de Soins Santé Primaires is using an integrated and holistic approach that includes CLTS to address the linked problems of sexual violence and sanitation which affect women and children. Adopting a CLTS approach, and working in schools and health clinics, maternal and child health in the area has improved, and the increase in household latrines have reduced the vulnerability of women. In addition, through establishing community protection committees, survivors of sexual violence are able to speak out, receive counselling and seek justice.
Children’s involvement in CLTS: A case study of Oboyambo community in central region of Ghana

Short case study from Plan Ghana on activities that form part of the Pan Africa Project The case study looks at the involvement and active participation of children in CLTS and SLTS in Oboyambo community, Agona East District of the Central Region of Ghana and concludes that children have an important role to play in the development of
Children reining in cholera in villages

Article in The Standard 18th July 2011 on SLTS in Homa Bay
Girls as Natural Leaders in School

Case study of girls becoming champions of sanitation and hygiene in their school in Sissala West District of the Upper West Region in Ghana
School-Led Total Sanitation: Reflections on the Potential of the Shebedino Pilot

Note by Robert Chambers on a new model of School-led Total Sanitation piloted by Plan Ethiopia and the Local Administration in Shebedino. Insights are based on two field visits, in November 2010 and February 2011, discussions with Berhanu Tunsisa and others in Plan Ethiopia, and with Government staff and others in Shebedino, and the findings of the February 2011 Assessment Report on School-led Total Sanitation: Shebedino Program Unit, by Fisseha Atalie.
Brief Report from Training of Trainers on CLTS in Gulbarga, Karnataka

Report from a Training of Trainers Workshop on Community-Led Total Sanitation facilitated by Knowledge Links in Gulbarga, Karnataka, from the 16th to 20th August 2010.
Analysis of School-led Total Sanitation in Chitwan, Nepal

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.
Workshop on School-led Total Sanitation (SLTS) and children's involvement in CLTS

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.
School-led Total Sanitation: Principles and Practices

Overview of the components of SLTS and its implementation in Nepal to date by Kamal Adhikari (2010), Department of Water Supply and Sewerage, Nepal.
Children's involvement in CLTS: A case study of Oboyambo Community in Ghana

Short note by Daniel Sarpong, Plan Ghana, describing children’s involvement in CLTS in one community in the Central Region of Ghana.
Children /School Led Total Sanitation: experiences from India and Cambodia

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.
Igniting Little Minds for Total Sanitation

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.
Community Approaches to Total Sanitation: Case studies from India, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Zambia
This Field Note discusses the evolution of sanitation programming in UNICEF and the origins of CATS (Community Approaches to Sanitation). It examines each of the CATS essential elements and explores their implementation through country case studies. The case studies illustrate a range of methods under the CATS umbrella:
- Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in Sierra Leone and Zambia
- School-Led Total Sanitation (SLTS) in Nepal; and
- the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) in India.
Child-to-Child Hygiene Behavior Change (Bangladesh)

Good hygiene is part of total sanitation but deeply embedded cultural beliefs can make behaviour change difficult. Therefore, to plant the seeds of change early, Plan Bangladesh supports a programme of school sanitation and household hygiene education through a child-to-child approach in 83 schools of Sreepur upazila.
School-led Total Sanitation seems unstoppable (Nepal)

SLTS has been implemented in Nepal since 2005. The approach incorporates the basic elements of the School Sanitation and Hygiene Education (SSHE) programme, the reward and revolving fund aspects of the Basic Sanitation Package (BSP), and the participatory tools and techniques of Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS). In the 15 districts of Nepal where UNICEF is active, SLTS is reaching out to 60,000 households with 300,000 people, with leadership coming from 200 schools.
Guidelines on School-led Total Sanitation (SLTS)

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.
The Child to Child Approach in Community Led Total Sanitation

The Child-to-Child Approach is an educational process that links children’s learning with taking action to promote the health, wellbeing and development of themselves, their families and their communities. This case study by Afrianto Kurniawan describes the application of the child to child approach in CLTS in Indonesia.
School-led Total Sanitation: A successful model to promote school and community sanitation and hygiene in Nepal

This paper shows the promising developments with school-led total sanitation in Nepal. In this approach, which combines CLTS with School Sanitation and Hygiene Education (SSHE), children act as the key agents of change.

Shova Adhikari and Namaste Lal Shreshtra, UNICEF Nepal (2008) IN IRC Beyond construction: use by all
School-led sanitation promotion: Helping achieve total sanitation outcomes in Azad Jammu and Kashmir

Based on experiences in Azad Jammu and Kashmir state in Pakistan, this article suggests that an adaptation of CLTS to schools can lead to sanitation and hygiene improvements beyond schools, into households and wider communities.
Vigilance by young girls and women: The Gandhian way of persuasion

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.
Triggering in Primary Schools in Indonesia

by Afrianto Kurniawan

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

by JP Shukla, Knowledge Links, India

One pager on triggering in schools in the states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Meghalaya in India.
Social Dynamics of CLTS: Inclusion of children, women and vulnerable

Amina Mahbub (2009)

This study which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation looks at the intensity and significance of the participation of women and children in CLTS processes in several villages of Dinajpur District, Bangladesh. It also seeks to identify the extent of inclusion of the extreme poor and marginalised in the process and their experience over time.

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