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CLTS is a low-cost methodology requiring no hardware [[subsidy]]: the main input is good facilitation of the participatory process.(2005)
CLTS is a low-cost methodology requiring no hardware [[subsidy]]: the main input is good facilitation of the participatory process.(2005)


==See also==
== Interwiki links ==
 
'''Wikipedia articles''':
'''Wikipedia articles''':
*[[Wikipedia:participation (decision making)|Participation (decision making)]]
*[[Wikipedia:Community-led total sanitation]]
*[[Wikipedia:grassroots|Grassroots]]
*[[Wikipedia:Participation (decision making)]]
*[[Wikipedia:Farmer Field School|Farmer Field School]][http://www.farmerfieldschool.net/][http://www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=/DOCREP/006/AD487E/ad487e02.htm][http://www.pan-uk.org/pestnews/pn61/pn61p9.htm] - another grassroots development program. <!--Kar & Pasteur describe it as "a grassroots approach to farmer education. See Pontius, Dilts and Bartlett (eds) From Farmer Field Schools to Community IPM: Ten Years of IPM Training in Asia, April 2001."-->
*[[Wikipedia:Grassroots]]
*[[Wikipedia:Farmer Field School]][http://www.farmerfieldschool.net/][http://www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=/DOCREP/006/AD487E/ad487e02.htm][http://www.pan-uk.org/pestnews/pn61/pn61p9.htm] - another grassroots development program. <!--Kar & Pasteur describe it as "a grassroots approach to farmer education. See Pontius, Dilts and Bartlett (eds) From Farmer Field Schools to Community IPM: Ten Years of IPM Training in Asia, April 2001."-->


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 02:03, 22 April 2008

Community-led total sanitation (CLTS) is a grassroots approach to sanitation developed in Bangladesh. It follows the philosophy of participatory rural appraisal, or PRA.

CLTS was developed by Kamal Kar, an advocate of community participation in development, in Bangladesh.

He has criticised the lack of success of NGO's in Bangladesh, saying "It is difficult to find even 100 villages among nearly 85,000 that are 100 per cent sanitised and free from open defecation." [1]

He has also been involved in low cost sanitation programs. [2]

Background

Kamal Kar is a development consultant based in Kolkata, India, who has worked with many national and international agencies on innovative methodologies for development in Asia and Africa.

Kamal Kar introduced PRA (participatory rural appraisal) in 1993 (to Tanzania? Johansson, 2000). CLTS, (Community-led total sanitation) was developed in 2000 by Kar with his colleagues, WaterAid and Village Education Resources Centre (VERC) (a Bangladesh NGO).[3] (PLA Notes 49: Decentralisation and Community-based Planning, p31)

Introduction

CLTS is a low-cost methodology requiring no hardware subsidy: the main input is good facilitation of the participatory process.(2005)

Interwiki links

Wikipedia articles:

References

  1. Water: either too much or too little, Environmental Articles Archive: Water Resources, July 2004.
  2. Habitat Debate, Volume 9, no. 3, September 2003.
  3. partner organizations listed under Acknowledgements, 2005, p19.

Further reading

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