Other Publications

Public Health Act, 2012

03 Jan 2012

CLTS Training Manual Kamal Kar

02 Mar 2010

WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care

03 Jul 2009

Handbook on Community-Led Total Sanitation

The CLTS approach originates from Kamal Kar’s evaluation of WaterAid Bangladesh and their local partner organisation – VERC’s (Village Education Resource Centre is a local NGO) traditional water and sanitation programme and his subsequent work in Bangladesh in late 1999 and into 2000. This led to the discovery of the CLTS approach in which use of PRA methods enables local communities to analyse their sanitation conditions and collectively internalise the terrible impact of OD on public health and on the entire neighbourhood environment. (See APPENDIX A Page 76) for details. When triggered systematically and combined with ‘no-hardware subsidy’ policy and a hands-off approach by the facilitator, CLTS could provoke urgent collective local action to become totally ODF. A new style of facilitation has evolved. In its classic form, this uses the crude local word for “shit” and encourages local communities to visit the dirtiest and filthiest areas in the neighbourhood. Appraising and analysing their practices shocks, disgusts and shames people. This style is provocative and fun

05 Mar 2008

CLTS Evaluation Report 2007

One of the eight of Millennium Development Goals, targets agreed by all world governments to halve world poverty by 2015, is to halve the proportion of people without access to sanitation.

02 Aug 2007