Communityled total sanitation clts is quickly taking the international development global aid world by storm. The term triggering is central to the clts process. This is an integrated approach to achieving and sustaining open defecation free odf status. Total number of communes number of communes where clts is implemented number of communes with. Community led total sanitation clts aims at eliminating open defecation by applying participatory activities that engage entire communities. Of water and sanitation for all community led total sanitation clts in fragile contexts. Communityled communityled total sanitation, an approach using the total sanitation promotion of sanitation to bring about a collective community clts decision to reject open defecation.
Also it is a valuable tool to create demand for sanitation services in communities. This case study examined communityled total sanitation clts as an approach to improve sanitation and hygiene in communities and schools in the one million initiative omi in mozambique. They are facilitated to conduct their own appraisal and analysis and take their own action to become open defecationfree. Urban communityled total sanitation is potentially an important piece of a bigger puzzle. Community led total sanitation clts is a widely used approach for the promotion of sanitation intended to eradicate open defecation and transform a community s health and wellbeing for the better. These communities are in the area covered by the gsfsupported programme in madagascar, known locally as fonds dappui pour lassainissement faa. The approach entails the facilitation of sanitation pro. Practical guide to triggering communityled total sanitation clts. 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 nepal water institute. Community led total sanitation in nepal getting us back on track this paper provides a summary of community led total sanitation clts initiatives in nepal. Clts means community led total sanitation that mobilises communities to completely eliminate open defecation. The book provides examples of towns and cities in africa, south asia and southeast asia which have used these approaches.
Communityled total sanitation clts is a widely used, communitybased approach to tackle open defecation and its healthrelated problems. June 2006 wateraid water for life the international ngo dedicated exclusively to the provision of safe domestic water, sanitation and hygiene education to the worlds poorest people. We used a crosssectional case study to identify personal, physical, and social context factors and psychosocial determinants from the risks. 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. Communityled total sanitation clts is the most widely deployed approach to generate demand for, and use of sanitation facilities. Clts in its pure form does not recommend or subsidise specific sanitation technologies. To address the problem, kenya has adopted the community led total sanitation clts approach to mobilize communities towards improving their sanitation and hygiene practices. It focuses on spontaneous and longlasting behavior change of an entire community. Handwashing is a vital part of good sanitation and hygiene. Training in communityled total behavior change in hygiene. Plan international and other sanitation practitioners.
Traditional sanitation programs usually distribute free or subsidised concrete slabs for toilets. Determining the effectiveness and mode of operation of. The dynamics and sustainability of communityled total. The basic assumption is that no human being can stay unmoved once they have learned. Survey of recent sanitation achievement in himachal pradesh authored by. Communityled total sanitation and hygiene cltsh trainers guide. Communityled total sanitation clts is a widely applied rural behavior change approach for ending open defecation. Communityled total sanitation in rural areas an approach. This handbook on community led total sanitation clts, produced in collaboration with the institute of development studies ids in the uk, is aimed at enabling communities to analyse their sanitation conditions and collectively understand the impact of. Key literature communityled total sanitation and school.
In particular, plan international ethiopia would like to. When community led total sanitation clts and its aim of odf open defecation free communities are fully understood and put into practice it is clear that handwashing is implicit in the approach. Omi is a largescale rural water, sanitation and hygiene wash programme jointly implemented by the government of. What is community led total sanitation clts top things. Communityled total sanitation in rural areas an approach that works february 2007 field note the water and sanitation program is an international partnership for improving water and sanitation sector policies, practices, and capacities to serve poor people sanitation programs have, for some time now, incorporated the need to raise awareness and. Communities strive to achieve open defecation free odf status.
Communityled total sanitation clts represents a radical alternative to conventional topdown approaches to sanitation and offers hope of achieving the millennium development goals kar and chambers 2008. Community led total sanitation clts in fragile contexts. Purpose this learning brief shares key findings from a case study of communityled total sanitation clts implementation in plan international uganda program areas, focusing on the roles and responsibilities of local actors. Communityled total sanitation policy diffusion experiential learning evidence abstract worldwide, 892 million people practice open defecation, most of whom live in rural areas of south asia and subsaharan africa. This report covers the main findings of the impact evaluation of a communityled total sanitation clts campaign implemented by the government of mali direction nationale. The clts approach which has been successfully implemented in bangladesh is one which facilitates a process of empowering local communities to stop open defecation and to build and use latrines without support of any external hardware subsidy.
Trainers guide on communityled total sanitation and. The tssm approach marries the generation of demand both at the household level through sanitation marketing and at the community level through total sanitation. Impact of community led total sanitation clts in africa dr. The usaidsupported washplus project is working with the ministry of health to integrate equity and inclusion in the current clts approach. The communityled total sanitation clts approach involves working closely with community members, fostering selfreliance by encouraging them to take on the responsibility of making their community open defecation free odf without any outside funds for latrines or handwashing stations.
Clts emerged in the year 2000, and has since spread to over 60 countries, many of which now include it in national policy institute of development studies, 2016. This learning brief and underlying country report present the roles of local actors in plan internationals program activities and highlight considerations for scalability, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Communityled total sanitation clts involves facilitating a process to inspire and empower rural communities to stop open defecation and to build and use latrines, without offering external subsidies to purchase hardware such as pans and pipes. Community led total sanitation a handbook on facts and processes 1 chapter 1. Communityled total sanitation clts is a promising approach that seeks to raise awareness of the faecaloral contamination route, and capitalises on human emotions of disgust and shame to bring about communitywide change in defecation practices, the ultimate. According to the institute of development studies it is now being used in more than 50 countries, of which at least 15 have made clts official national policy. As part of the nl capacity development process, a technical team composed of plan ghana, the. This handbook will increase understanding of the facts and processes. Community led total sanitation is one of such approaches. Communityled total sanitation clts in sierra leone and zambia. This report of a study commissioned by the institute of development studies on the community led total sanitation clts site presents the findings of the survey that was conducted in himachal pradesh to assess the progress made by the state in rural sanitation, in the context. Total sanitation focuses on stopping open defecation and moving to hygienic sanitation at the village or community level.
As a response, the communityled total sanitation clts approach was developed, aiming to create open defecationfree odf communities kar and chambers 2008. Although clts has been shown to be successful in previous studies, little is known about how clts works. Hygiene and sanitation transformation phast was found to be too didactic. Findings from an implementation case study learning brief november 17, 2015 download the learning brief pdf, 778kb, 4 pp. Clts, which replaces this approach, is premised on the idea that a communityled process will lead to behaviour change that is sustainable in terms of the maintenance and use of latrines. Social sustainability seven steps to community led total. It offers a set of approaches, tools and tactics for practitioners to move towards safely managed sanitation services. Sustainability of communityled total sanitation outcomes. It is an integrated approach that focuses on achieving and sustaining open defecation free odf status. Testing clts approaches for sustainability download the learning brief pdf, 776kb, 4 pp.
Communityled total sanitation clts is an approach to addressing open defecation that triggers emotions to generate a collective demand for sanitation within a community. Clts has proven effective in various settings and contexts, enabling communities to set their own goals and fulfill them with minimal external financial inputs. Clts is an approach that aims at improving sanitation through community mobilization. This handbook in nepali version has been found to be quite useful and popular in communities. This is an integrated sanitation promotion approach to achieving and sustaining an open defecation free odf status. Rural sanitation model and costed scaling up strategy for. The population that uses a shared or public sanitation facility more than doubled. Plan uk is a childcentred community development organisation with no religious or political affiliations. While previous programmes had outsiders build toilets or advise on their. The rural sanitation model and costed scaling up strategy builds on all of the positive elements of community led total sanitation, but also recognises that this approach has shown limitations requiring additional interventions especially in sanitation marketing. How does communityled total sanitation clts affect. We make longterm commitments to children in poverty and assist. Flachenberg kenya briefing paper 2460 this paper presents the lessons learnt from a pilot clts intervention in the challenging context of somalia.
These are only a few of the many community approaches to total sanitation being undertaken around the world that exemplify the cats essential elements. What exactly is community led total sanitation clts. Review is available at conformant html version of this. Room, network theory, communityled total sanitation, participatory hygiene and sanitation transformation phast, sanitation marketing, the hygiene improvement framework, and good solid social mobilization and management. Sanitation marketing communityled total sanitation. As well as being an insult to human dignity, open defecation is the root cause of faecaloral transmission of disease and as a result. Testing clts approaches for sustainability download the learning brief pdf, 1mb, 4 pp. This evaluation focuses on the effectiveness of a communityled total sanitation clts program implemented by the government of mali in small rural communities with poor sanitation coverage. Purpose this learning brief shares key findings from a case study of communityled total sanitation clts implementation in plan international niger program areas, focusing on the roles and responsibilities of local actors. It is a relatively novel approach, pioneered by kamal kar in. Communityled total sanitation clts is an approach used mainly in developing countries to improve sanitation and hygiene practices in a community. Plan international supports communityled total sanitation clts implementation in a number of communities around cambodia.
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