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Paradigms, Poverty and Adaptive Pluralism

Published by: IDS

In earlier analysis, two paradigms were identified in development professionalism, thinking and practice: one, often dominant, associated with things; and one, often subordinate, associated with people.

Shifting power: to make a difference

Published by: Earthscan

‘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

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

Who Counts? The Quiet Revolution of Participation and Numbers

Published by: IDS

This Research Summary shows how Working Paper 296 documents a quiet revolution, unrecognised in professional mainstreams, that has been taking place in the past decade and a half.

Beyond Subsidies – Triggering a Revolution in Rural Sanitation

Published by: IDS

This In Focus Policy Briefing asks how can we maximise the huge potential for transforming rural sanitation that this approach offers? What has worked? What hinders progress? What should be done?

Handbook on Community-Led Total Sanitation

Published by: IDS

The CLTS approach originates from Kamal Kar's evaluation of WaterAid Bangladesh and their local partner organisation - VERC's (Village Education Resource Centre is a local NGO) traditional water and sanitation programme and his subsequent work in Bangladesh in late 1999 and into 2000.

Going to Scale with Community-Led Total Sanitation: Reflections on Experience, Issues and Ways Forward (Research Summary)

Published by: IDS

Towards a New Social Justice Agenda: understanding Political responses to crises

Published by: IDS

Food riots across the developing world in 2008 sent powerful messages about the limits to people's tolerance of acute economic insecurity.

Going to Scale with Community-Led Total Sanitation: Reflections on Experience, Issues and Ways Forward

Published by: IDS

Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is a revolutionary approach in which communities are facilitated to conduct their own appraisal and analysis of open defecation (OD) and take their own action to become ODF (open defecation-free).