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India's women given low-cost route to sanitary protection

Few Indian women can afford sanitary towels. But one social entrepreneur aims to change that, and provide an income too: Arunachalam Muruganantham went to great lengths to develop an effective solution, even wearing sanitary towels and a device filled with blood himself to test his innovations.
Let’s have commercial toilets at all fuel stations to curb open defecation

Ghanaian engineer and technologist, Dr. Albert M. Wright, who introduced the Kumasi Ventilated Improved Pit (KVIP), has prescribed the mandatory construction of toilets at the country’s many fuel stations, to help curb the high incidence of open defecation in the country.Dr Wright also spoke of the hope that with CLTS the country’s open defecation rates would decrease and help meet the MDGs.
Participatory Follow-Up Tools: The Shit and Shake and Calculating Ingested Shit

One pager by Karina Redick, Engineers Without Borders Canada on Participatory Follow Up Tools for CLTS
Towards a Clean Nanded:The story of implementation of City Sanitation Plan in Nanded

In February-March 2011, a City Sanitation Plan (CSP) was prepared for Nanded City in Maharashtra using a Citizen Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach. The implementation phase started in April 2011. Read about the project and its progress
Innovative Approaches to Implementing CLTS in an Urban Setting in Ghana

Lessons, challenges and opportunities from piloting CLTS in a small town of Lekpongunor in the Dangme West District of Ghana. A paper by Nii Lantei Wellington, Eugene Larbi and Joyce Appiah, presented at the 22nd Mole Conference under the theme: Towards Decentralised WASH Services Delivery: Challenges and Lessons. (August 2011)
Formation of the First Chiefdom CLTS Taskforce in Sierra Leone.

Short report from Goal Sierra Leone on the formation of a Chiefdom Taskforce that aims to help with monitoring and sustainability of ODF communities in Kenema District.
Progressing towards the millennium development goals for sanitation through CLTS

Note by Modibo Diallo (National Directorate of Sanitation, Mali) and Nicolas Osbert (UNICEF Mali) discussing whether CLTS latrines can be considered ‘improved means of sanitation’ as defined by the JMP standards and what implications this has for the standards adopted by the National Directorate in Mali. Read the note
Tales of Shit: Community-Led Total Sanitation in Africa (PLA 61)

Participatory Learning and Action Notes Issue 61 focuses on Community-led Total Sanitation in Africa.
NEW: Read about the progress of the urban CLTS pilot in Mathare 10, Nairobi

New feature on the website: Follow the progress of the urban CLTS pilot in Mathare 10, Nairobi, Kenya through the eyes of Sammy Musyoki of Plan Kenya in the Mathare 10 diary which will be regularly updated.
Piloting CLTS in an urban setting: Diary of progress in Mathare 10, Nairobi Kenya

PLEASE NOTE: Further blogs on Mathare will now appear on the main blog

Below you will find an ongoing blog about CLTS in the urban setting of Mathare 10, Nairobi, Kenya in which Sammy Musyoki of Plan Kenya documents and reflects on progress as the pilot unfolds.

The UCLTS team in Mathare is also on Facebook Check out their group!

And you can now watch Story Yetu, a film about urban sanitation and waste management, Community Cleaning services work, youth engagement and entrepreneurship in Mathare 10 online.
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.
Triggering Community-led Solutions during times of Cholera

Practice Note #2 in the series Building a CLTS Learning Community in Malawi put together by Ashley Raeside of EWB. The note describes how Mr. Kondowe, the DEHO for Kasungu District in Malawi adapted the CLTS approach to effectively respond to cholera outbreaks in 2009.
Using Natural Leaders as Community Consultants

by Anupma Verma, Knowledge Links, India

One pager on how Natural Leaders in Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttrakhand and Meghalaya in India are being used as community consultants to inspire other villages.
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.
Creating competition among village chiefs in Himachal Pradesh

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.
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.
One-pagers

One pagers are short write-ups by practitioners of innovations, experiences and ways in which particular challenges have been overcome.
Fly catcher

Short case study by Yambasu Menjoh Koker, Community Mobiliser Team Leader of GOAL Ireland on how the problem of flies in latrines was innovatively solved.
Community-Led Environmental Project in Cairo

Using CLTS type methodologies, Plan Egypt mobilized the population of Cairo South for waste management and a cleaner living environment.

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