Practical guidance on new methods, and thinking on broader issues.
Resources are listed below chronologically but are also searchable through using the keyword search and the filters in the sidebar, by Topic, Country, Date, Language and Type.
Paper by the Community Support Program (ASHA) of Care Nepal on the use of CLTS
ASHA program has been using CLTS since April 2008 in its program districts. The main entry point for the No Open Defecation Campaign is the Peace Promotion Center (PPC), a women-led organisation.
NETWAS (2008)
Report from the Second Sanitation Annual Learning Event which looks at Kamuli District’s experience with implementing CLTS.
Plan Ethiopia, and the United Nation’s Children Fund (UNICEF) have signed a cooperation agreement to strategically scale up the application of CLTS for sanitation and hygiene development works in the country.
The project aims to support government initiative to enhance sanitation and hygiene to reach the Universal Access Plan (UAP) and the UN-set Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target.
Times of Zambia, 8th August 2009, article by Wallen Simwaka
The deputy director of public health in the Ministry of Health of Zambia recently appealed to UNICEF to transform CLTS into a national programme.
A selection of images of CLTS in Sierra Leone from GOAL Ireland.
Plan Ethiopia (June 2009)
Short report on the national and regional taskforces for standardizing community-led total sanitation (CLTS) and other community-led approaches to sanitation and hygiene development that have been established in Ethiopia.
Mariama Zombo, Community Empowerment Advisor of Plan Sierra Leone describes her experience of CLTS in Sierra Leone, successes, challenges and ways forward.
Njoroge Kamau, Health Advisor of Plan Kenya, Coast has contributed an article on CLTS to the June issue of Health Exchange which focuses on the social determinants of health, what they mean for health workers and how we put this approach into practice. The article describes how Plan Kenya and the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation have used CLTS to successfully address the problems of low sanitation coverage, open defecation and their negative impacts on health. The article gives a good description of how the approach works, as well as its specific application in the Kenyan context.
UNICEF in collaboration with WaterAid held a regional CLTS sensitization and capacity development workshop for West African Anglophone countries in Otukpo, Benue State Nigeria from 1st to 7th of March 2009.
This In Focus Policy Briefing asks how we can maximise the great potential for transforming rural sanitation that CLTS offers.
