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

Published on 20 August 2011

Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS), an approach that focuses on community-wide behaviour change to stop open defecation, has spread widely but with varying outcomes in Africa. This paper describes the process of introducing CLTS to different parts of Africa and factors that have contributed to and challenged its spread.

Authors

Kamal Kar

Honorary Associate

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published by
IDS
authors
Kar, K. and Milward, K.
journal
IDS Research Summary of IDS Practice Paper, issue 8

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The Sanitation Learning Hub
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Africa

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