Community-led total sanitation (CLTS) is a grassroots approach to sanitation developed in Bangladesh. It follows the philosophy of participatory rural appraisal,[1] 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." [2]
He has also been involved in low cost sanitation programs. [3]
See also
Wikipedia articles:
- participation (decision making)
- Farmer Field School[3][4][5] - another grassroots development program.
References
- ↑ Wikipedia:Participatory rural appraisal[1][2]
- ↑ Water: either too much or too little, Environmental Articles Archive: Water Resources, July 2004.
- ↑ Habitat Debate, Volume 9, no. 3, September 2003.
Further reading
- Kar, Kamal (2003). Subsidy or Self-respect? Participatory Total Community Sanitation in Bangladesh. IDS Working Paper, 50 pages. Free in PDF format.
- Kar, Kamal and Pasteur, Katherine (2005). Subsidy of Self-Respect? Community Led Total Sanitation. An Update on Recent Developments. IDS Working Paper, 68 pages. Free in PDF format.