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Water and Sanitation

Providing water and sanitation for all in an equitable and sustainable way is central to achieving global justice for poor women and men. Despite successive global declarations and efforts, the situation remains appalling with millions suffering from lack of access.

Simplistic portrayals of water and sanitation 'crises' have often led to misunderstandings on the nature of the problem and how to address it. The result has been a failure to centralise the needs and interests of the poor and marginalised within different solutions.

Water Justice

Principally conducted in the KNOTS Team at IDS and the IDS-coordinated STEPS Centre, our work on water justice critically examines the politics and pathways of water and sanitation policy and practice through interdisciplinary research on access, rights and control over these key resources. Through this research we ask how future global action on water and sanitation and water resources management can centralise the needs of the poor and most marginalised.

Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS)

IDS has been working on the research, learning and networking aspects of CLTS for close to a decade. During this time, CLTS has become an international movement. The IDS programme on Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) works around the world to ensure that CLTS goes to scale with quality and in a sustainable and inclusive manner. The aim is to contribute to the dignity, health and wellbeing of children, women and men in the developing world who currently suffer the consequences of inadequate or no sanitation and poor hygiene.

A Global Solution to Protect Water by Transforming Waste

This EPSRC project focuses on the 'peri-urban' environment, which includes areas outside cities that are characterised by poor infrastructure, and poor access to formal water and sanitation services. More details

Flows and Practices: The Politics of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in Africa

This research seeks to link ideas of IWRM as constructed at the global and European level to their translation into narratives and practices in eastern and southern Africa. It will critically examine the interpretations and challenges of IWRM, hopefully contributing to improving water policies and practices and making them locally appropriate. More details

Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-Led Total Sanitation

Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is a participatory approach that started in Bangladesh and has been spread to varying degrees in India, Cambodia, Indonesia, China, Nepal. To a limited degree, it has also been trialled in some African countries. More details

Improving security for the poor in Nairobi through the provision of services and economic opportunities

This case study aims to critically assess existing evidence on aid, state and community efforts to strengthen access to work, economic opportunities and basic services to improve security in poor areas of Nairobi. More details

Separate Streams? Adapting water resources management to climate change

Using empirical evidence from case-studies undertaken in Niger and North-east Brazil, this research project identifies how climate change adaptation can be integrated within the water sector to benefit the poor and vulnerable More details

Sharing Lessons, Improving Practice: Maximising the Potential of Community-Led Total Sanitation

CLTS is an innovative methodology for mobilising communities to completely eliminate open defecation (OD). More details

Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS) Centre

The STEPS Centre is an interdisciplinary global research and policy engagement hub, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. It aims to develop a new approach to understanding, action and communication on sustainability and development. More details

Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa

Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa was a three-year collaborative project carried out by research partners in Mozambique, South Africa, UK and Zimbabwe, funded by the UK Department for International Development. More details

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Voices from the source: Struggles with local water security in Ethiopia

 (2013)
Dessalegn, M., Nigussie, L., Michago, W., Tucker, J., Nicol, A. and Calow, R.

Introduction to the Special Issue: Water Grabbing? Focus on the (Re)Appropriation of Finite Water Resources

 Water Alternatives 5.2 (2012)
Mehta, L., Vedwisch, G.J.A. and Franco, J.

'Some for All?' Politics and Pathways in Water and Sanitation

 IDS Bulletin 43.2 (2012)
Nicol, A., Mehta, L. and Allouche, J.

The Social Construction of Scarcity: The Case of Water in Western India

 In 'Global Political Ecology' (2011)
Peet, R., Robbins, P. and Watts, M.J.

'Lukenya Notes': Taking CLTS to Scale with Quality

 (2011)

Water and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

(2011)
Weinthal, E., Troell, J. and Nakayama, M.

An Anachronistic Weberian Conception of State Building? Informal Providers, Service Delivery, and Post-Conflict Reconstruction

 In 'Water and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding ' (2011)
Weinthal, E., Troell, J. and Nakayama, M.

Digging in, Spreading out and Growing up: Introducing CLTS in Africa

 IDS Practice Paper 8 (2011)
Kar, K. and Milward, K.

Shit Matters: The Potential of Community-Led Total Sanitation

 (2011)
Mehta, L. and Movik, S.

No Plot of One’s Own: How Large Dams Reinforce Gender Inequalities

 World Rivers Review 26.1 (2011)
Mehta, L.

Institutions, Incentives: CLTS in India and Indonesia

 In 'Shit Matters: The Potential of Community-Led Total Sanitation' (2011)
Mehta, L. and Movik, S.

The Sustainability and Resilience of Global Water and Food Systems: A Political Analysis of the Interplay Between Security, Resource Scarcity, Political Systems and Global Trade

 Food Policy 36.S1 (2011)
Allouche, J.

Water Security: towards the human securitization of water?

 The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations 12.1 (2011)
Allouche, J., Nicol, A. and Mehta, L.

The Limits to Scarcity: Contesting the Politics of Allocation

 (2010)
Mehta, L.

L'hydropolitique et les Relations Internationales: Introduction

 Dynamiques Internationales 2 (2010)
Allouche, J. and Daoudy, M.

Water Rights and State Management in India and South Africa

 In 'Citizenship and Social Movements: Perspectives from the Global South' (2010)
Thompson, L. and Tapscott, C.

Tales of Shit: Community-Led Total Sanitation in Africa

 Participatory Learning and Action 61 (2010)
Bongartz, P., Musyoki, S.M., Milligan, A. and Ashley, H.

‘The Bamako CLTS Consensus: What Works and Traps to Avoid’, Regional Sharing and Learning Workshop for francophone Africa, Bamako, 29 November – 3 December 2010

 (2010)

‘Lusaka Declaration’, Statement and Recommendations from the Regional Sharing and Learning Workshop of CLTS Decision-makers, Practitioners and Networkers in Lusaka, World Toilet Day, 19 November 2010

(2010)

The Dynamics and Sustainability of Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS): Mapping Challenges and Pathways

STEPS Working Paper 37 (2010)
Movik, S. and Mehta, L.
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