Handbook on community-led total sanitation

Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is a participatory process focused on promoting change in sanitation behaviour through social action - stimulated by facilitators from within or outside the community. Aimed at empowering local communities this handbook is a source of ideas and experiences to be used for CLTS orientation workshops, advocacy to stakeholders as well as for implementing CLTS activities. It is intended as a tool for field staff, facilitators and trainers to plan, implement and follow up on CLTS activities.

A sequence of possible steps and tools, including do’s and don’t, are provided to help trigger CLTS in a community. They include:

• Pre-triggering
  • Selecting a community
  • Introduction and building rapport
    
• Triggering
  • Participatory sanitation profile analysis
  • Ignition moment
    
• Post-triggering
  • Action planning by the community
    
• Follow up
  • Scaling up and going beyond CLTS

Users are encouraged to use and modify the processes outlined in this handbook as they see fit to compliment their given context.

The handbook includes experiences and material provided by the DFID-funded Institute of Development Studies research programme on ‘Going to Scale with Community-Led Total Sanitation’.