How can youth help in actively eradicating open defecation?
Youth plays a very important role in nation building. There’s indeed nothing that youth cannot do. One of the major public health crisis that we face throughout the country is that of open defecation. Open defecation is rampant everywhere. The term ‘Open defecation’ refers [...]
Ha Khupiso: The first Open Defecation Free village in Lesotho
Ha Khupiso represents an ordinary rural village that one sees in many countries but its Open Defecation Free (ODF) story is as extraordinary as those of every single rural community that has achieved ODF through their own collective effort. Ha Khupiso is located in [...]
Beyond Just CLTS, Bangladesh: Fostering Enterprise and Innovation (Part 2)
Beyond Just CLTS, Bangladesh (Part 2): Fostering Enterprise and Innovation 2007 Indigo - a natural dye (Indigo is derived from a plant species Indigoferra tinctoria) was re discovered at the time when Kantha became a contemporary product of the artisans’ group in Rajendrapur. I [...]
Can India Inc unleash the true potential of CLTS to make a Swachh Bharat?
CSR investments in Swachh Bharat Mission – How to unlock their full potential? On October 2nd, 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the mammoth Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) with the promise to make India open defecation free (ODF) by 2019. Along with providing government [...]
Beyond Just CLTS, Bangladesh – Series 1: Fostering Enterprise and Innovation
Late 2004 It made me happy when on a remarkable day we successfully triggered Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach in Rajendrapur village in Rangpur district to stop open defecation. At that time I was working in a project Nijeder Janya Nijera (We, for ourselves), [...]
Global Sanitation Fund – Global Learning Event (GLE), 24-30 April 2016, Madagascar
United in commitment to improve their toilets - Sanitation Ladder Triggering Itasy region - with Adema. Photo Credits: Kirsty Milward CLTS Foundation was invited to the Global Learning Event of the Global Sanitation Fund, this year held in Madagascar to give an [...]
Dhaka Diary: No subsidy was given by the Government to build toilets
Unlike government and subsidy driven campaign in India, it was a community led initiative in Bangladesh. No subsidy was given by the Government to build toilets. FILE - AP PHOTO/A.M. AHAD Loo Lessons from the neighbour Being the in-house weirdo pitching stories on the [...]
Toilet subsidy is no solution to sanitation crisis: Sanan
Deepak Sanan, one of the flag bearers of community-led total sanitation (CLTS), believes that collective behaviour change works more than individual grants. Himachal Pradesh is a case in point. Deepak Sanan, IAS In recent years, especially after the launch of major programmes [...]
Ethiopia: CLTS and Livelihoods
Vita’s project shows the positive impact of CLTS on livelihood A project in Ethiopia launched by Vita shows the positive impact of community led total sanitation approach by increasing livelihood options for the local community. Since Kamal Kar and Vita launched community led total [...]
Toilets: A symbol of pride and dignity of community
Her eyes misted over as she clutched the edges of her “ghoonghat” trying to pull it down to cover her face. I had just asked her why she was out late at night. I had seen her in a group of women silhouetted in [...]