research

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.

WaterAid (2009)
This report documents the results of studies on open defecation in rural communities and the cultural values that reinforce its practise carried out by WaterAid in four West African countries — Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, and Nigeria.

Dyalchand, Ashok, Khale, Manisha and S. Vasudevan (2009)

This paper which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation explores effective strategies for initiating social change in sanitation behaviours from a social norms perspective examining the question: “What components of a communication strategy influence sanitation behaviours and how are they mediated?”

Manisha Khale and Ashok Dyalchand (2009)

This paper which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation looks at the impact of the CLTS approach on rural sanitation by comparing access to toilets at the family level, toilet use, open defecation (OD) rates, quality of drinking water and the impact of these on health as measured by reported prevalence of diarrhoea and worm infestation in children under the age of six in three types of villages:

• Villages where the sanitation programme was implemented through a Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) strategy.
• Villages where sanitation programme was implemented through a Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) strategy
• Villages with no sanitation improvement programme in the recent past.

From the 16th- to 18th December 2008, IDS held a conference on CLTS which formed part of the DFID-funded project Going to Scale: The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation in which IDS has been engaged in over the last few years. The conference marked the end of the Year of Sanitation 2008 and presented some of the research findings, as well as being an opportunity to share and learn from experiences of CLTS / sanitation with a wide audience from around the world and to tease out implications for wider development agendas.

Deepak Sanan (2009)

This paper which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation traces the history of CLTS in India.

COMING SOON

Howes, Mick and Huda, Enamul (2009)

These three case studies which form part of the IDS research project “Going to Scale?

Anu Joshi (2009)

The study which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale: The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation focuses on some of the institutional issues that emerge as significant in understanding the adoption, spread and institutionalization of CLTS within public bureaucracies.

Lyla Mehta (2009)

This is a DRAFT. The paper will be completed in May 2009.
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This paper which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation situates CLTS in history and within the context of wider sanitation debates.