The Lukenya Notes are a collection of experiences and key recommendations from the IDS meeting of CLTS practitioners held in Lukenya, Nairobi in July 2011, immediately after the AfricaSan3 meeting. The aim of the workshop was to focus on the key challenges we all face in taking CLTS to scale. Insights, case studies and options are clustered by themes which emerged from workshop brainstorming.
The participants of the Regional CLTS Sharing and Learning Workshop that took place in Bamako from the 29th November to the 3rd December 2010 produced the Bamako Consensus.
A review of the status of community-led sanitation implementation in East Asia and Pacific. Commissioned by UNICEF, Plan, WaterAid and WSP, this report has been produced based on experiences and lessons on the implementation of Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) from Cambodia, China, DPR Korea, Indonesia, Kiribati, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Myanmar,Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu, and Viet Nam.
This report presents the main discussions, conclusions and recommendations of the National Workshop on Community-Led Approach in the Context of Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan held at the Uttarakhand Academy of Administration, Nainital on April 16 to 18 2013. The workshop was convened by the Key Resource Centre in collaboration with the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) and supported by the Government of India and Institute of Development Studies, with facilitation support by Knowledge Links and input from the CLTS Foundation.
Eliminating open defecation is increasingly seen as a key health outcome, with links to reduced stunting, improved educational and positive health outcomes for children. In Sub Saharan Africa, over 35 countries are implementing some form of CLTS, ranging from TATS in Tanzania to CLTSH in Ethiopia. Since the introduction of CLTS in 2005 in the region, rapid scale-up has been achieved with suggested numbers of ODF communities in the range of 30,000 affecting over 15 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Summary report from the ODF Malawi annual review (March 2013), with updated statistics, and reflections on challenges, sharing of innovations and solutions, as well as useful guidance and resources for CLTS in Malawi.
Leaflet that outlines Malawi’s Strategy for Becoming Open Defecation Free (ODF) by 2015.
From the 8th to the 11th December 2012, the Government of Jharkhand, the CLTS Foundations, WSP South Asia and WSSCC jointly organised an international workshop on 'Sustainability of rural sanitation initiatives in India' in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India.
Read the Ranchi workshop report
Over the last 30 years, most rural sanitation interventions have had pockets of success, but were small in scale. Learning how to expand on the successes of these small-scale projects to increase access at large scale has been an enduring challenge.
