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How can youth help in actively eradicating open defecation?

By |August 12th, 2016|

Youth plays a very important role in nation building. There’s indeed nothing that youth cannot do. One of the major public health crisis that we face throughout the country is that of open defecation. Open defecation is rampant everywhere. The term ‘Open defecation’ refers [...]

Ha Khupiso: The first Open Defecation Free village in Lesotho

By |August 10th, 2016|

Ha Khupiso represents an ordinary rural village that one sees in many countries but its Open Defecation Free (ODF) story is as extraordinary as those of every single rural community that has achieved ODF through their own collective effort. Ha Khupiso is located in [...]

Beyond Just CLTS, Bangladesh: Fostering Enterprise and Innovation (Part 2)

By |July 14th, 2016|

Beyond Just CLTS, Bangladesh (Part 2): Fostering Enterprise and Innovation 2007 Indigo - a natural dye (Indigo is derived from a plant species Indigoferra tinctoria) was re discovered at the time when Kantha became a contemporary product of the artisans’ group in Rajendrapur. I [...]

Can India Inc unleash the true potential of CLTS to make a Swachh Bharat?

By |July 4th, 2016|

CSR investments in Swachh Bharat Mission – How to unlock their full potential? On October 2nd, 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the mammoth Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) with the promise to make India open defecation free (ODF) by 2019. Along with providing government [...]

Beyond Just CLTS, Bangladesh – Series 1: Fostering Enterprise and Innovation

By |June 6th, 2016|

Late 2004 It made me happy when on a remarkable day we successfully triggered Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach in Rajendrapur village in Rangpur district to stop open defecation. At that time I was working in a project Nijeder Janya Nijera (We, for ourselves), [...]

Global Sanitation Fund – Global Learning Event (GLE), 24-30 April 2016, Madagascar

By |May 19th, 2016|

United in commitment to improve their toilets - Sanitation Ladder Triggering Itasy region - with Adema. Photo Credits: Kirsty Milward CLTS Foundation Global was invited to the Global Learning Event of the Global Sanitation Fund, this year held in Madagascar to give [...]

Dhaka Diary: No subsidy was given by the Government to build toilets

By |April 29th, 2016|

Unlike government and subsidy driven campaign in India, it was a community led initiative in Bangladesh. No subsidy was given by the Government to build toilets. FILE - AP PHOTO/A.M. AHAD Loo Lessons from the neighbour Being the in-house weirdo pitching stories on the [...]

Toilet subsidy is no solution to sanitation crisis: Sanan

By |March 4th, 2016|

Deepak Sanan, one of the flag bearers of community-led total sanitation (CLTS), believes that collective behaviour change works more than individual grants. Himachal Pradesh is a case in point. Deepak Sanan, IAS In recent years, especially after the launch of major programmes [...]

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