research

Owin Jamasy and Nina Shatifan (2009)

This paper forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation. Based on villagers’ experiences in nine villages that have used the CLTS approach, it seeks to identify factors that have promoted or hindered progress. It concludes that there is no single factor that determines success but rather a constellation of facilitating factors supported by village level leadership.

Enamul Huda (2009)

This paper which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation draws up a profile of Natural Leaders (NL) in Bangladesh and explores their market promotion. It is based on data collected through action research with NGOs such as CARE-SDU, VERC and Dishari (DAM-Plan Bangladesh).

Anowarul Haq and Brigitta Bode (2009)

This paper which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation discusses key dynamics around the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach in CARE Bangladesh’ Nijeder Janyia Nijera (We for Ourselves) project. CLTS is a powerful approach to achieve sanitation and can be used as an entry point to build solidarity and provide a platform for other development initiatives.

Edy Priyono, AKADEMIKA-Center for Public Policy Analysis (2009)

The study which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale: The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation focuses on the institutional dimensions of scaling up of CLTS in Indonesia. The research paper explores the impacts of institutional arrangements on CLTS in terms of speed of implementation, success of implementation and spread.

Nilanjana Mukherjee and Nina Shatifan (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 Indonesia and discusses the way forward to fully realize its potential not only as a tool for sanitation but to support the broader decentralization agenda in the country.

Nisheeth Kumar and J.P.Shukla, Knowledge Links (2009)

This paper which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation examines the factors that have been instrumental in adoption and spread of CLTS in India. It mainly looks at two aspects, those factors internal to the CLTS process of training and triggering on the one hand, and those external to CLTS and located within the larger operating environment, on the other.

Shafiul Azam Ahmed (2009)

This study which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation traces the development and history of CLTS in Bangladesh. It details the political economy at work behind CLTS’s fast transition from a local approach to a national intervention. The paper presents a number of challenges that CLTS now faces in Bangladesh, in particular with regard to scaling up.
 

Amina Mahbub (2009)

This study which forms part of the IDS research project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation looks at the intensity and significance of the participation of women and children in CLTS processes in several villages of Dinajpur District, Bangladesh. It also seeks to identify the extent of inclusion of the extreme poor and marginalised in the process and their experience over time.

Robert Chambers (March 2009)

In this IDS Practice Paper, which forms part of the action learning component of the project Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation, Robert Chambers reviews the experience gained with CLTS in Asia and Africa as it has spread over the last few years, explores options and ways forward for the future.