Chairman’s Message

The Foundation also participated in major global events like the World Water Week in Stockholm and the Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Conference in New Delhi, India where we connected with major global actors, Ministers and senior officials concerned with the national sanitation programmes of African and Asian nations. This year also marked a decade of the publication of the ‘Handbook on Community- Led Total Sanitation’ which was published by Plan UK and IDS UK in 2008. It has been translated into more than 16 languages and circulated widely. Major portion of the work for our next book titled ‘Scaling up CLTS – From Village to Nation’ was also completed this year and we are excited to announce that the book will be out soon in early 2019.
– Dr Kamal Kar

Highlights of our Work

	Meeting with Cambodia’s Minister of Rural Development on 12th February, 2018 A National level Training of Trainers (ToT) was organized by SNV, Cambodia and CLTS Foundation in the Pursat province from the 5th to 9th February 2018. Following the successful training in Pursat, a meeting with the Minister of Rural Development was held on the 12th of February. The meeting was very encouraging and the Minister stated that making Cambodia ODF is one of the major agendas of the Ministry.
	Capacity Strengthening for Community Led Total Sanitation in Mozambique Following a National Sanitation Conference in 2014 and in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, Mozambique aims to become ODF by 2025. In April 2018, CLTS Foundation in co-ordination with UNICEF Mozambique and UKAid, worked to strengthen both on-the-ground capacity for scaling up with this target in mind, and the institutional drive to do so.
	Academic Collaboration with IHE Delft Institute for Water Education and IRC WASH Debate We collaborated with IHE Delft Institute for Water Education’s One Year Master of Science programme in Sanitation to develop a sub-module named ‘Community Led Total Sanitation Spotlight” in the Behaviour Change and Advocacy module for the programme.
	CLTS Foundation at World Water Week, Stockholm CLTS Foundation and Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) organised an informal discussion at World Water Week on how nations can be fast tracked to achieve Open Defecation Free status.
	Community Led Approach to Fuel Efficient Cook Stoves: A joint initiative by CLTS Foundation and Vita CLTS Foundation joined hands with Vita, an Irish NGO to commit to the cause of contributing to Ethiopia’s strategy to improve efficiency of biomass use which plays a major role in Ethiopia’s vision of becoming a middle-income country with a Climate-Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) by 2025.
	CLTS Foundation in National Sanitation Conference 2018, Eritrea CLTS Foundation was invited by UNICEF from 30th November 2018 to 12th December 2018 to support Eritrea in scaling up for an ODF Nation by 2022 and for facilitating the First Eritrean National Sanitation Conference.

CLTS Blog

Magic on the sapphire landscape (CLTS in Kiribati) – Ms. Nuzhat Shahzadi “Furthermore, following results of the CLTS training, a total of 90 villages (47 target villages of the “Kiriwatsan I” project) in 11 outer islands declared themselves open-defecation free with the involvement of a total of 30,054 people representing 84% of the target population and 29% of the total population of Kiribati,” writes CLTS champion Nuzhat Shahzadi in this blog.
In conversation: Emily Woods, CTO and Co-Founder, Sanivation Ms Emily Woods is an NSF scholar with a passion for developing innovative and affordable technology solutions. After a chance meeting at the World Water Week this year, we decided to take the conversation forward and learn more about innovations in non-sewered sanitation from Ms Woods herself.
World Toilet Day: How can ‘Reinvented Toilets’ address the global sanitation crisis? While admitting that there has been limited hardware innovations in the sanitation sector, we have to keep in mind that ‘software’ i.e. behaviour change approaches are important for adoption and ownership of toilets. One of the most successful approaches is Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), which has been rolled out in more than 70 countries worldwide.
Human Rights Day: WASH during Emergencies Armed conflicts, floods, droughts, earthquakes are some of the major causes of emergency situations. People caught in such humanitarian situations are much more vulnerable to diseases, often caused by lack of sanitation, inadequate water supply and deplorable hygiene. Increased risk of disease also arises from overcrowding, exposure to new pathogens and the disruption of routine and safe habits.

CLTS Champions

A bureaucrat’s efforts towards Swacch Bharat by using CLTS as a weapon The District Magistrate of Murshidabad (West Bengal) Dr. P. Ulaganathan, IAS talks about his efforts to create an ODF Murshidabad (West Bengal). With his experience as erstwhile District Magistrate of Cooch Behar (West Bengal); an in-depth knowledge of Community Led Total Sanitation, he has managed to create one success story after another. Here he shares some of his challenges and learnings.