Key resource: Going to Scale with Community-led Total Sanitation: Reflections on Experience, Issues and Ways Forward
Robert Chambers (March 2009)
Date: 8 April 2009
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Crossing continents: what can India and Africa learn from each other?
These reflections have been provoked by two occasions. The first was in late September/early October last year in India – the Mahatma Gandhi International Convention on Sanitation. The second was AfricaSan5, the fifth biennial African Conference on Sanitation in Cape Town in February this year. The contributions to global warming of these two occasions will have been enormous. For myself, I feel guilt, having been to both. Let me fondly hope this blog leads to good actions which a
'I hated the stench and filth': India's scavengers escape dirty work
A project in Delhi is retraining people who clean human excrement with their bare hands to find work as housekeepers. The training is the result of Shahdara district magistrate Kumar Mahesh’s determination to end manual scavenging. The project team found it hard to identify manual scavengers in Shahdara as many (most of whom are Dalits) are too ashamed to admit their occupation. But they finally managed to persuade 28 people to enrol for the part-time course where they learn housekeeping skills enabling them to leave the dehumanising work of scavenging behind.
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Sanitation consumer demand and supply chain study
It’s estimated that approximately 80 % of the South Sudan population does not have access to any toilet facility. This has been attributed to several factors including among others, limited awareness by the population on the benefits of latrines and limited supply for latrine construction materials. In this study, SNV examines the demand and supply chain of latrine construction materials in the two Counties of Magwi and Aweil East in South Sudan.
Date: 18 August 2016
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Annual Report 2012-2013 from Kenya's Ministry of Health's Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Unit
Annual report from Kenya's Minstry of Health, Division of Environmental Health and Sanitation, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Unit with highlights of the events in the sector, successes and challenges faced.
Date: 14 October 2014
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ODF Verification Visit Chakwal
NRSP (National Rural Support Programme) and Plan Pakistan came are working together on a WES project that targets 430,000 people in twenty five Union Councils of District Chakwal over three years to safeguard and protect their health from water, sanitation and hygiene related diseases. The main components of the project are CLTS and SLTS. On June 21, 2012 a joint visit of NRSP, Plan Pakistan and PHED (Public Health Engineering Department) teams was arranged to four villages which had become ODF.
Date: 8 November 2012
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From dreams to reality – Compendium of best practices in rural sanitation in India
This publication by the Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP) presents, through over 20 case studies, examples of best practices in rural sanitation that have taken place across India, both at the village and the state or district level.
Date: 8 November 2012
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CLTS in Nanded
Two reports on urban CLTS in Nanded submitted by students of the Tata Institute of Social Work, Mumbai, India.
Date: 8 November 2012
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Heard of the CLTS magic?
A bit of motivation and awareness transforms a dirty Jharkhand village into a clean place, under the Community-Led Total Sanitation approach, reports S. Vishwanath.
Subsidy or self-respect?
Local communities should be empowered to analyse the extent and risk of environmental pollution caused by open defecation, and to construct toilets without any subsidies, writes Dr Amit Kumar Agrawal in Tehelka, 2nd October 2012
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