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40 villages declared ODF/STBM in Indonesia

Forty villages in two districts of TTS (West Timor) and TTU (North Central Timor) in East Nusa Tenggara were recently declared not only ODF but also having met the other criteria of Indonesia’s Community Based Total Sanitation (STBM in Indonesian language) approach.
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. Three 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.
Azra- empowered to help her community with sanitation and hygiene

Case study from Mardan, NWFP, of a 22 year old woman from a very conservative Pathan background, who initially worked as a volunteer hygiene promoter for Integrated Rural Support Programme (IRSP), trained in CLTS, PRA and other approaches and then felt empowered to mobilise awareness around sanitation and hygiene in her communities.
UK Minister visits CLTS work in Pirganj, Rangpur, Bangladesh

Stephen O’Brien, UK Minister for international development, visited Aanantopur village of Chatra union under Pirganj Upazilla of Rangpur district on 17 November 2011. The visit was intended to develop an understanding of CLTS and how WaterAid and its partners have used the approach to improve the lives of poor people in rural Bangladesh.
Villagers and students push for toilets in Bokeo during World Toilet Day

On the 19th November, rural communities in Meung, Pha Oudom, and Paktha in Bokeo province, Laos, marked World Toilet Day with sanitation-and-hygiene-promoting activities organized by the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene program of Plan International, Lao PDR Office, with financial support from the Australian government/AusAID.
Read more about the activities in Lao or in English
Let's seek small changes

Video from Plan Nepal, promoting the community's efforts to create a clean and healthy community.
India's Rural Development Minister slams Total Sanitation Campaign as an absolute failure

After the launch of India Human Development Report 2011, which reveals that the country has a long way to go before ensuring toilet access for all and before improving basic health determinants, Jairam Ramesh, India’s Rural Development Minister chose strong words to condemn the TSC: ‘Total Sanitation Campaign has been a failure. It is neither total, nor sanitation nor a campaign’.
Open defecation serious threat to health says India's Human Development Report

India’s Human Development Report 2011 says that ‘[d]espite an increase in the number of toilets, open defecation remains the single largest threat to health and nutritional status in the country’.

Source: Moneycontrol.com 21st October 2011
Plan Indonesia wins top award for CLTS project

Plan Indonesia’s Grobogan-based Scaling-Up Project was singled out for the honour in the ‘Sanitation and Wastewater – Software’ category of this year’s International Water Association Project Innovation Awards, to be held in Malaysia 21st-24th November. The judging panel praised the project for its innovative approach to sanitation based on community participation and led by the community itself. Yohanna Pakpahan, Plan Indonesia’s Community-Led Total Sanitation project manager in Grobogan district, will represent Plan to receive the award.
Engaging with government to scale-up Community-Based Total Sanitation in Indonesia

In 2007 Plan International Indonesia (Plan Indonesia) adopted Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) as its only approach for implementing sanitation projects in its 9 Program Unit sites. This paper outlines the process being undertaken to take CLTS to scale, the key factors that have enabled it and the lessons learned so far.
Plan Indonesia ODF Highlight

Plan Indonesia Project Highlight from July 2011, with details of the successes of the community-led water, sanitation and hygiene program (STBM).
Long Term Sustainability of Improved Sanitation in Rural Bangladesh

Research conducted in rural Bangladesh in Union Parishads that were declared 100% open defecation free almost five years ago shows that 90% of households in the areas studied have sustained use of a latrine that adequately confines feces.
Factors Associated with Achieving and Sustaining Open Defecation Free Communities: Learning from East Java

Research conducted in 2010 in East Java to identify factors associated with achieving and sustaining behavior change by communities to become ODF shows that communities achieving ODF status within two months of triggering achieved markedly higher access gains.
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
WSP Videos on CLTS in Indonesia

WSP has released three films that look at CLTS and Sanitation Marketing in Indonesia

Unleashing latent demand for sanitation
Filmed in Indonesia, this video features how Scaling Up Rural Sanitation began campaigns to raise consumer demand for sanitation amid competing priorities among community members. Why would you want to spend 15 percent of your annual income on something that you felt you did not need?
The Sanitation Profile of Vietnam and Possibilities of Scaling up of CLTS

Trip report by Kamal Kar based on his visit between the 19th and 26th June 2011 which included a review of the practice of CLTS in Vietnam, consultation with the main actors of sanitation in the country and a two day workshop to discuss and plan ways forward for scaling up of CLTS in Vietnam.
Time for community-led sanitation drive

Article in Governance Now, 30th June 2011. On the occasion of the launch of the book Shit Matters, Brajesh Kumar argues that it’s time for India to abandon costly and ineffective sanitation programmes and give CLTS a serious try.
Making sanitation as popular as cricket

700 million Indians have cell phones, but 638 million still don’t have access to proper sanitation. It is estimated that one in every 10 deaths in the country is attributable to poor sanitation. This article by Darryl de Monte in the Morunga Express argues that what is needed is not hardware but software, ie political will and social solutions like CLTS to transform the sanitation sector in India.
Dehydration and poor sanitation kill a child every 7 minutes in Asia-Pacific

Dirty water and poor hygiene are silent killers that account for the deaths of 80,000 children under five, each year, in the South East Asia and Pacific region alone, says a new report authored by the University of Technology, Sydney.

Source: http://infochangeindia.org
How Community Led Total Sanitation Led to Better Farming

Extract from the BBC/TVE Earth Report on CLTS in Bangladesh which focuses in particular how CLTS has led to collective community activities beyond sanitation, eg solving the problem of monga (seasonal hunger) by returning to the old practice of cultivating vine potatoes.

Watch the video (6 mins)
Linking Participatory Monitoring with Mobile Communication Technology to Monitor Rural Sanitation Progress in East Java

One pager on using a participatory SMS-based reporting system to monitor progress towards ODF by Nilanjana Mukherjee, Djoko Wartono, Amin Robiarto and Effentrif.
Kamal Kar: Champion of Reform

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) featured Kamal Kar as a Champion of Reform in their April 2011 Newsletter Water For All

The feature includes a comprehensive interview in which Kamal talks about the spread of CLTS, the challenges to its implementation, and its achievements in defeating open defecation. Related links offer further reading and resources.
Community-Led Total Sanitation Lessons Incorporated into Lao Strategy

The Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) pilot in Lao PDR has enabled organizations to identify and agree on key sanitation issues as a result of lessons learned from CLTS. These issues will feed into the National Strategy for Rural Water Supply and Environmental Health Sector, which is currently under revision and due for submission to the Ministry of Health in March. The incorporation of the issues is expected to help improve the government’s role as coordinator in rural sanitation, explore new options for sanitation financing, and pave the way for the adoption of CLTS approaches for nationwide sanitation promotion.
CLTS training in Desa Batu Putih (video)

Early in April, Live & Learn Indonesia conducted their first workshop for training local change agents in the Community-Led Total Sanitation process. The slideshow videos below show the training process, including triggering in communities.
Igniting changes: the journey of CLTS in Dompu

Short write up of Plan’s CLTS activities, experiences, results and lessons learned in Dompu district, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.

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