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The CLTS Foundation is an associate of professionals and practitioners focusing on rural and urban sanitation globally.
The Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach is spread across 70 countries in South and South-East Asia, Africa and Latin America. At least 35 countries have CLTS as part of their national policies.
CLTS Foundation strives to create a world free from open defecation.
ABOUT US
Who we are?
The CLTS Foundation was formed by the pioneer of CLTS, Dr. Kamal Kar, to meet the growing demand for a common global platform for practitioners, trainers and users of CLTS.
- Technical Assistance and Capacity Building
- Crap Tools
- Institutional Triggering and Advocacy
- Developing Knowledge Products
Agenda in Focus
SanLearn 2022!
Incredible progress has been made in reducing open defecation practices in South Asia in recent [...]
CLTS Foundation Annual Newsletter 2018
Newsletter Jan 2019 Chairman’s Message The year 2018 was a very busy and successful year for the Foundation. True to our vision, we continued our contribution towards fast tracking nations [...]
Community Led Approach to Fuel Efficient Cook Stoves: A joint initiative by CLTS Foundation and Vita Ireland
“The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sound economic development. And the same path can lift us to a new, [...]
CLTS Foundation at Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention, 2018
CLTS Foundation recently had the honour of being invited to participate in the Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention (MGISC) held in Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi from 29th September 2018 to [...]
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AWARDS
NATIONAL TASK FORCE ON URBAN SANITATION Award given by :Govt.of India
RURAL SUPPORT PROGRAMMES NETWORK RSPN ,2007
Dr. Kamal Kar was Honoured with the World Toilet Organization (WTO) Hall of Fame Award at World Toilet Summit in New Delhi in 2015.
Award given by : Government of Pakistan (Ministry of environment )
WATER AND SANITATION DEPARTMENT GOVERNMENT OF MAHARASTRA AND UNICEF, MUMBAI, 2010
South Asian Conference On sanitation (SACOSAN-VI) ,2016
Honoured with the prestigious Safaigiri Award in association with the India Today Group for creating an Open Defecation Free blueprint for the World Global Mission, on October 2, 2019 in New Delhi.
In 2015, Dr. Kar was awarded the ‘Sarphati Sanitation Lifetime Achievement Award’ at the Amsterdam International Water Week.
JOURNEY TO ZERO
SANITATION CONFERENCE AT DHAKA, 2015
In 2013, Dr.Kamal Kar was honoured as ‘The Global Leader in Humanitarian Service’ by the Lion International
