triggering

Handbook on Community-led Total Sanitation

Kamal Kar with Robert Chambers (2008). IDS and Plan UK.

This handbook contains comprehensive information on CLTS, its pre-triggering, triggering and post-triggering stages, as well as examples and case studies from around the world.

NEW Now also available in French Manuel de l’assainissement total par la communauté , Spanish Manual sobre saneamiento total liderado por la comunidad , Hindi and Bengali

An Arabic translation is being prepared and a Portuguese version is available on request from UNICEF Mozambique (The document’s size is too large to be uploaded on the website)

Practical Guide to Triggering Community-Led Total Sanitation

Kamal Kar (2005). IDS

This basic ‘how-to’ guide aims to help frontline staff and field facilitators to understand the philosophy and principles of CLTS, and to use some of the practical tools and techniques flexibly and freely.

Also available in Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, French and Lao.

Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes for Excellent CLTS Facilitation

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One page poster that summarises the key knowledge, skills and attitudes that CLTS facilitators must possess to excel in CLTS.

Process Recorder Form

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One page tool that gives guidance on what information may be useful to record during triggering to help extension with follow up.

Developed by Ashley Raeside (EWB) together with the CLTS management teams from Salima and Mzimba District.

Chichewa Facilitators Guide on CLTS

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Kabuku Kotsogolera
Ndondomeko zopititsira patsogolo ntchito za ukhondo motsogozedwa ndi eni dera

This Facilitators’ Guide has been prepared by Engineers without Borders, Canada, 2009, based on and including translated materials from the CLTS Handbook and the Practical Guide to Triggering CLTS.

Breaking the silence through CLTS- A strategy for empowerment

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Mariama Zombo, Community Empowerment Advisor of Plan Sierra Leone describes her experience of CLTS in Sierra Leone, successes, challenges and ways forward.

International Glossary of Shit

In CLTS, the crude local word for shit is always used, cutting through the deadly silence around open defecation.

CLTS videos

A number of films on CLTS are now available.

BBC/TVE Earth Report, Clean Living Part 1, 'Top Down, Bottom Up'(CLTS in Bangladesh) To order a copy of the film, contact the TVE Distribution Manager
Dina Junkermann

East and Southern Africa Regional Training Workshop on CLTS (Zambia, July 2008)

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Between the 14th – 18th July 2008, Plan Zambia and Plan Regional East and Southern Africa (RESA) co-organized a hands-on CLTS training workshop at Fringilla Lodge, Chisamba, Zambia, which was facilitated by Dr Kamal Kar.

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