Academic Collaboration with IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
We, at CLTS Foundation, had the honour of collaborating with IHE Delft Institute for Water Education’s One Year Master of Science programme in Sanitation for developing and teaching a sub-module named ‘Community Led Total Sanitation Spotlight” in the Behaviour Change and Advocacy module for the [...]
Celebrating a decade of the ‘Handbook on Community Led Total Sanitation’
Celebrating a decade of the publication of the 'Handbook on #CommunityLedTotalSanitation in 2008 by Dr. Kamal Kar with Dr. Robert Chambers published by Plan UK and IDS UK. Since then, the Handbook has been translated into more than 16 languages and circulated widely. Let's keep the [...]
Supporting the Poorest and Most Vulnerable, Manila, May 2017 – “I am Poor” vs. “They are Poor”
It was indeed a great pleasure to attend and participate in a conference co-hosted by CLTS Knowledge Hub at IDS and UNICEF, held at Tagatay in May 2017. This enlightening conference was followed by a National workshop entitled, ‘Accelerating Sustainable Zero Open Defecation Programming: [...]
Magic on the sapphire landscape (CLTS in Kiribati) – Ms. Nuzhat Shahzadi
It was an early morning in the southern horizon of the Pacific region. The Ocean was calm; the waves seemed tame in the early hours, as the tide hadn’t come in yet. In the distance, as far as eyes could see the water was [...]
Drawbacks of Cluster Randomised Trials as a means of Impact Analysis of the CLTS Process
Behavioural change, that has been at the centre of the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) process has been truly remarkable in transforming communities and leading them to an Open Defecation Free status. The focus that it lays on a participatory community based approach rather [...]
Regional Conference on CLTS in Cambodia calls for renewed momentum on access to sanitation in South East Asia
The regional conference on community-led total sanitation (CLTS), ‘From Communities to Open Defecation Free Nations: Fast tracking an ODF South East Asia’ in Phnom Penh (15-17 November 2017), capital city of Cambodia ended with a renewed call to action to hasten the progress and [...]
International Conference on Community-Led Total Sanitation in Cambodia– Paving the way to Open Defecation Free South East Asia
PRESS RELEASE - JOINTLY ISSUED BY ROYAL GOVERNMENT OF CAMBODIA, CLTS FOUNDATION AND PLAN INTERNATIONAL CAMBODIA International Conference on Community-Led Total Sanitation in Cambodia– Paving the way to Open Defecation Free South East Asia Phnom Penh, 7 November 2017: Phnom Penh will host [...]
Regional Training of Trainers’ Workshop on Community Led Total Sanitation in Thaba Tseka District, Lesotho
Background and Introduction CLTS Foundation, as a part of its collaborative efforts with Eastern Southern Africa Region of UNICEF, has made a sincere effort to introduce CLTS in Lesotho on the interest of UNICEF and Government of Lesotho. Lesotho is a country with a [...]
Dr. Kamal Kar: The struggle to overcome the ‘Sanitation Subsidy Monster’ in India
Dr. Kamal Kar. Photo credit: CLTS Foundation How can Uttar Pradesh, one of the global epicenters of open defecation, eliminate this scourge through Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS)? A couple of months ago, I was invited to participate in a major state-level [...]
Can urban slum dwellers of Kalyani use right to sanitation to claim their land tenure?
Case study of Urban Slum Dwellers of Kalyani, West Bengal: A popular conception in spatial and socio-economical studies across the world exists that a person is vulnerable if he/she has no money and hence cannot access resources, thereby slipping into poverty. However, in his [...]