"Handbook on Community-led Total Sanitation", written by Kamal Kar and Robert Chambers and published by the Institute of Development Studies Sussex and Plan India in March 2008, is a manual that contains comprehensive information on Community-led Total Sanitation, its pre-triggering, triggering and post-triggering stages, as well as examples and case studies from around the world, including India. The manual will enable communities to analyse their sanitation conditions and collectively understand the impact of open defecation on public health and their environment.

Initially the focus of CLTS was on the triggering or igniting event. Kamal Kar’s Practical Guide to Triggering Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) published by the Institute of Development Studies, in November 2005, is about “How to ignite CLTS”. It has been in wide demand and has been translated into Amharic, Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese, Bengali, Hindi, Khmer, Marathi, Nepali, Spanish, Swahili and Urdu and other languages.

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This handbook is an attempt to bring together experience, diversified practice and local innovations from different countries and many sources, and to meet some of that need. It supersedes the earlier guidelines, but not those produced nationally or locally by trainers and practitioners who have adapted and evolved them for their local conditions. In updating and revising those, however, there may be material here that could be drawn on.
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This has been compiled as a source of ideas and experiences that can be used for CLTS orientation workshops, advocacy to stakeholders, training facilitators and natural leaders and implementing CLTS activities. It is a resource book especially for field staff, facilitators and trainers for planning, implementation and follow-up for CLTS.
Users of this handbook must feel free to use its guidelines in the way they find best. The methods described are not the only ones for implementing CLTS. Users are encouraged to explore different ways of preparing for CLTS, for triggering, for post-triggering follow-up, and for supporting and spreading CLTS that fit with local conditions, cultures and opportunities. Facilitators must feel free to be inventive and adaptive, and to use their
own best judgment in deciding what to do. The ideas and advice that follow have been tried and tested, but it is for facilitators themselves to decide what works for them. The basic principle is the empowerment of local communities to do their own analysis and take their own action to become open defecation free.
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