This document outlines a course on Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS). It discusses using CLTS to facilitate practical and clinical field attachments. The key principles of CLTS are outlined, including facilitating communities to confront open defecation issues themselves rather than teaching solutions, focusing on collective public health over individual subsidies, and communities taking self-help action without external pressure or standardized designs. The document provides context, assessments, and outlines for using CLTS to structure hands-on fieldwork and community engagement experiences.
8. COURSE OUTLINE
Introduction to CLTS
terminology
Workshop Structure
Training and Learning Activities
and Exercises
Preparing for the Real-life
Triggering
15. FOCUS ON THE COLLECTIVE
CLTS has a public good
perspective of sanitation. until OD
is fully eradicated, it's ill effect will
affect the whole community.
Instead of counting toilets, ODF
communities are a measure of
success
16. NO SUBSIDY
No individual household subsidies
should be used. Communities
install their own latrines or toilets
with their own resources. Those
who are better-off help those who
are too weak or poor to help
themselves.
17. NO SUBSIDY
The government or
agencies are NOT
exempted from financially
and institutionally
supporting sanitation
interventions.
18. FACILITATION, NOT TEACHING
Teaching or preaching about
sanitation does not work.
Instead hands-off triggering
facilitates the communities to
confront their sanitary reality and
conduct their own analysis of
open defecation.
19. FACILITATION, NOT TEACHING
No standardized top-down
designs are prescribed, but
people innovate and decide
for themselves, thus
avoiding problems of
absorbability.
20. COMMUNITY SELF-HELP ACTION
The community is the one who
leads the process, and no
external pressure is made in
order to put them into action.
Once ignited, information and
encouragement can be
provided.
The story of the young lady who was born in a slum and somehow, miraculously made it into the spotlight , out of all the poverty and all the unpleasantness in terms of the standard of living and political issues surrounding her livelihood.So!She made it and decided to donate a borehole to her community.They used it for a few weeks and somehow, after about six (6) months she went visiting and found it abandoned.Why?Unfortunately…The early morning exerciseKeeping fitHealthy bodiesCatching the morning breezeThe swim!The women’s gossips and gists that facilitates the bonding and togethernessInstead of going from house to house to check on each other’s wellbeing, they just happen to ‘see’ themselves on their way to the streamSome people are just so allergic to change [lol]The youths sometimes use the fetching water at the stream as an excuse for love meetings