Community led total sanitation clts focuses on the behavioural change needed to ensure real and sustainable improvements investing in community mobilisation instead of hardware, and shifting the focus from toilet construction for individual households to the creation of open defecationfree villages. Zambias communityled total sanitation program usaid. This handbook will increase understanding of the facts and processes. Their inquisitiveness, ideas and styles of facilitation helped me in developing the guide and its clts training of trainers modules. Communityled total sanitation in kenya unc water institute. Communityled total sanitation clts involves facilitating a process to inspire and empower rural communities to stop open defecation and to build and use. Also available in chinese, arabic, french and spanish. Community led total sanitation is based on stimulating a collective sense of disgust and shame among community members as they confront the crude facts about mass open defecation and its negative impacts on the entire community.
Communityled total sanitation in ethiopia unc water institute. My sincere thanks are due to the many trainers and facilitators of clts throughout asia, africa and latin america. This handbook in nepali version has been found to be quite useful and popular in communities. Communityled total sanitation clts is an approach used mainly in developing countries to.
Clts and the right to sanitation, frontiers of clts issue 8 pdf. Communityled total sanitation clts is a widely applied rural behavior. M2w monitoring component of a communityled total sanitation clts program in. Communityled total sanitation clts is a widely applied rural. Community led total sanitation is one of such approaches. Community led total sanitation clts is an innovative methodology for mobilising communities to completely eliminate open defecation od. This is an integrated approach to achieving and sustaining open defecation free odf status.
We here at the clts knowledge hub hope that you will find the newsletter and the clts website of use for your work. All of these and many other documents are available. The basic assumption is that no human being can stay unmoved once they have learned. What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link page information wikidata item cite this page. Robert chambers in his paper going to scale with communityled total sanitation ref. Communityled total sanitation clts has become a widely popular demand led. Communities are facilitated to conduct their own appraisal and analysis of open defecation od and take their own action to become odf open defecation free. Clts has proven effective in various settings and contexts, enabling communities to set their own goals and fulfill them with minimal external financial inputs. Community led total sanitation clts newsletter april 2014 welcome to the april edition of the clts newsletter a special welcome to all who recently joined the mailing list.
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