Description
Product ID: | 9781853399763 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Scaling-up Community-Led Total Sanitation |
Subtitle: | From village to nation |
Authors: | Author: Kamal Kar |
Page Count: | 268 |
Subjects: | Development studies, Development studies, Development economics and emerging economies, Public health and preventive medicine, Sustainability, Development economics & emerging economies, Public health & preventive medicine, Sustainability, Developing countries |
Description: | Scaling-up Community Led Total Sanitation starts with detailed instructions on how to facilitate CLTS in a village or cluster of villages. It then explores how to scale up and institutionalize CLTS at a regional and national level by gaining the commitment of leaders within government ministries. Huge strides have been made in many countries of the developingworld towards universal sanitation coverage, and the major factor behindthis progress has been Community-Led Total Sanitation or CLTS.CLTS is rooted in a model of community empowerment andmobilization, and has radically transformed global sanitation policy focusfrom toilet construction to the process of collective behaviour change. Ithas spread to more than 66 countries across Asia, Africa and Latin Americawhere more than 40 million people are now living in open defecation free(ODF) environments. CLTS has also been mainstreamed in the sanitationpolicies of more than 30 countries in these regions. |
Imprint Name: | Practical Action Publishing |
Publisher Name: | Practical Action Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-03-15 |