‘In Need of a Toilet’: Uttar Pradesh
No doubt you will have seen or heard the recent media coverage regarding the two teenage girls that were gang-raped, murdered and hanged from a tree in a village in Uttar Pradesh in northern India. This appalling case highlights many issues of concern in [...]
The Badaun murder: violence, vulnerability and safer sanitation
Guest Post by Shilpi Srivastava, DPhil Student, Institute of Development Studies, originally published by STEPS Centre http://steps-centre.org/2014/blog/badaun-murder-violence-safer-sanitation/ The heinous rape and murder of two teenaged girls in the Badaun district of Uttar Pradesh (India) has provoked a mix of outrage and debates across the globe. Among [...]
Can Uttar Pradesh unleash the untapped potential of CLTS in India?
By Dr. Kamal Kar India is home to 58% of the world’s open defecators and Uttar Pradesh (U.P.), India’s largest and most populous state contributes significantly to India’s poor sanitation status. The population density of open defecators in the state of U.P. is one [...]
Kalyani: An example of a sustained community-led initiative
By Kamal Kar with Preetha Prabhakaran For comprehensive and effective sanitation planning and implementation in urban and peri-urban areas, the full participation and engagement of all stakeholders, particularly the local community members, at all stages of planning and services delivery is essential. Here it [...]
Somaliland: Master Training of Trainers’ Workshop in Hargeisa
UNICEF Somalia in partnership with CLTS Foundation conducted a 5 days’ Master training of trainers’ workshop at Hargeisa, Somaliland from the 25th to the 30th of October, 2014. Approximately 80 professionals from Somaliland, Puntland and the South Central region of Somalia participated in this workshop. [...]
CLTS Assessment Report in Namibia – CLTS Foundation
Community Led Total Sanitation was introduced in Namibia by SAREP (South African Region Environmental Project) a Botswana based NGO with Funding Support from USAID. The first training was conducted from 27th May to 1st June 2013 in Collaboration with Integrated Rural Development and Natural [...]
Inclusive action and empowered communities are key to sanitation goal
The SDG zero draft, in relation to sanitation, is a significant advance on the MDGs. Sanitation is implicitly recognized as a public good that must reach all for the benefits to be enjoyed by all. Open defecation must be eradicated if safe sanitation is [...]
It happened in Bikaner
Before sunrise every morning, groups of men, women and children can be seen walking through the sand dunes of Bikaner. These heterogeneous groups, known as the nigrani committee, are often spearheaded by little tolis of children and are bound together by a common agenda [...]
The road to 2015: CLTS experiences and challenges
I was recently invited to IDS as part of an EPSRC-funded solid waste management project, ‘A Global Solution to Protect Water by Transforming Waste’, a unique initiative that focuses on addressing the problems of safe disposal of human excreta, by using anaerobic digestion technology to [...]
Hands on Training on Community Led Total Sanitation in Cross River and Benue State Ogoja, Cross River State
Hands on Training on Community Led Total Sanitation in Cross River and Benue State Ogoja, Cross River State Background and Introduction Rural Sanitation and Hygiene Programme in Nigeria (RUSHPIN) programme is being implemented in over 12 Local Government Agencies (LGAs) in Cross River and Benue [...]