Resources: facilitation

This manual intends to guide community facilitators in promoting the CLTS approach for improved sanitation and ensuing benefits. The handbook outlines the background to CLTS as well as its potential in bringing about positive behaviour and enumerates a step by step guide to promoting CLTS. It is hoped that this handbook will inspire trainers, practitioners, managers and policy-makers to ensure high standards of preparation, facilitation and follow up support; and that it will discourage target oriented approaches which degenerate into counting latrines and meeting targets for their construction, instead of assessing with rigorous standards the numbers of communities that truly achieve ODF status.

This guide, put together by the Ministry of Health, Government of Uganda, WSP and Plan, provides useful background for CLTS Facilitators, looking at

• What is Community-Led Total Sanitation?
• What is the aim of CLTS?
• Who is this field guide for?
• Who is a CLTS facilitator?
• The sequence of steps for pre-triggering, triggering and post-triggering

Kamal Kar’s Trainers’ Training Guide on Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), published by the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC).

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.

Kabuku Kotsogolera
Ndondomeko zopititsira patsogolo ntchito za ukhondo motsogozedwa ndi eni dera

This Facilitators’ Guide has been prepared by Engineers without Borders, Canada, 2009, based on and including translated materials from the CLTS Handbook and the Practical Guide to Triggering CLTS.

This report by Dr. Amit K Agrawal (2007), the Assistant District Collector (ADC) of Panipat, Haryana, details the introduction and implementation of CLTS in the district and teases out key issues and lessons.