Below you will find a list and links to key resources on CLTS. They include essential background reading for those new to CLTS.

Kamal Kar with Robert Chambers (2008) Handbook on Community-led Total Sanitation [1]. IDS and Plan International (also available in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Bengali, and Khmer)

Kamal Kar (2010) Facilitating “Hands-on” Training Workshops for CLTS: A Trainer’s Training Guide [2] (also in French)

Petra Bongartz and Robert Chambers (2009) Beyond Subsidies- Triggering a Revolution in Rural Sanitation [3] (also in French)

Bongartz, Petra, Musyoki, Samuel Musembi, Milligan, Angela and Ashley, Holly (2010) Tales of Shit: Community-Led Total Sanitation in Africa [4], Participatory Learning and Action 61, London: International Institute for Environment and Development (also in French)

Kamal Kar and Kirsty Milward (2011) Digging in, Spreading out and Growing up: Introducing CLTS in Africa [5]
Brighton: IDS.

Lukenya Notes [6] (September 2011)

Lusaka Declaration [7] (November 2010)

Bamako Consensus [8] (December 2010)

Robert Chambers (2009) Going to Scale with Community-led Total Sanitation: Reflections on Experience, Issues and Ways Forward [9] IDS Practice Paper 1. Brighton: IDS

Lyla Mehta and Synne Movik (2011) Shit Matters- The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation [10]. Practical Action and IDS

Kamal Kar and Petra Bongartz (2006) Latest Update to Subsidy or Self Respect [11]. Update to IDS Working Paper 257

Kamal Kar (2005) Practical Guide to Triggering Community-Led Total Sanitation [12]. IDS. (Also available in Chinese , Arabic, Spanish, French and Lao)

Kamal Kar and Katherine Pasteur(2005) Subsidy or Self-Respect? Community Led Total Sanitation. An Update on Recent Developments [13] IDS Working Paper 257

Kamal Kar (2003) Subsidy or Self-Respect? Participatory Total Community Sanitation in Bangladesh [14] IDS Working Paper 184