CLTS COMMUNITY-LED TOTAL

SANITATION

MS. OLULEGAN2 7 T H J U N E 2 0 1 4

QUESTIONS:

Who is responsible for a clean

environment?

QUESTIONS:

Do people eat their “shit”?

QUESTIONS:

When is hand-washing necessary?

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DEFINITIONCommunity-Led Total Sanitation is a sanitation promotion based on stimulating a collective sense of

disgust and shame among community members as they confront the crude facts about mass open defecation and its

negative impacts on the entire community.

DEFINITIONCommunity-Led Total Sanitation

(CLTS) focuses on igniting a change in sanitation behaviour

rather than constructing toilets. It does this through a process of

social awakening that is stimulated by facilitators from

within or outside the community.

…The basic assumption is that no human being can stay unmoved once they have learned that they

are ingesting other people’s faeces.

BUT YOU ASK! WHY CLTS?

BUT YOU ASK! WHY CLTS?

BUT YOU ASK! WHY CLTS?

WHEN IT OCCURS WELL, CLTS

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1.Is total, meaning

that it affects all in the community

and visitors as well

CLTS IS TOTAL

2.Is based on collective

community decision-making

and action by all  

CLTS IS COLLECTIVE

3.Is driven by sense of

collective achievement and motivations that

are internal to communities, not by external subsidies or

pressures

CLTS IS ACHIEVEMENT

4.Leads to the emergence of new Natural Leaders and/or

highly encourages new commitment of the existing leaders who do not need or follow a blue print, but do

things their own way

CLTS IS LEADERSHIP

5.Generates

diverse local actions and innovations

CLTS IS INNOVATION

#ThinkCLTS = #ThinkHEALTH

CLTS TOOLS…

BOTTLED WATER

EXPERIMENT

Where does shit go?

How does shit get into the mouth?

THE F-DIAGRAM

HAND WASHING

Answers to Questions

Ms. OLULEGAN

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