Scaling Up Community Led Total Sanitation

Huge strides have been made in many countries of the developing world towards universal sanitation coverage, and the major factor behind this progress has been Community-Led Total Sanitation or CLTS. CLTS is rooted in a model of community empowerment and mobilization, and has radically transformed global sanitation policy focus from toilet construction to the process of collective behaviour change. It has spread to more than 66 countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America where more than 40 million people are now living in open defecation free (ODF) environments. CLTS has also been mainstreamed in the sanitation policies of more than 30 countries in these regions.