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Short report and photos from a hands-on CLTS Training of Trainers workshop for NGO workers and district officials which took place in Porbander, Gujarat, India, the birthplace of Gandhi, in December 2009.

A new film on the CLTS experience in East Garo Hills in Meghalaya is now available for download from the Government of India’s Department for Drinking Water website (see the small brown box on the upper left side of the page).

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.

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 Afrianto Kurniawan

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

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.

by JP Shukla, Knowledge Links, India

One pager on triggering in schools in the states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Meghalaya in India.

Over 2008/09, WaterAid completed a multi-country research study exploring sustainability and equity aspects of community led sanitation initiatives (Community led total sanitation, CLTS) in Bangladesh, Nepal and Nigeria.

The purpose of the study was to contribute to the global understanding of community-wide open defecation-free approaches, with a focus on the extent to which these approaches result in sustained and equitable improvements in sanitation behaviour.

Emily Wax, Washington Post, October 12, 2009

Read how more and more young women in rural India are saying no loo, no I do!

As part of the efforts to improve the sanitation and hygiene situation of internally displaced persons in the camps of Jalozai and Kacha Garhi, UNICEF Peshawar and the Integrated Regional Support Program (IRSP) from Mardan, NWFP, carried out seven CLTS trainings for fourty people each in the camps. One of the objectives of this work is to identify potential natural leaders and support them to become CLTS barefoot consultants and facilitators to bring about positive hygiene behaviour changes and improve the health situation of the internally displaced persons in the camps.