Revitalising Community-led Total Sanitation: A Process Guide

This guide, published by WaterAid in 2011, addresses the need to adapt Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) to meet country-specific challenges, and outlines obstacles and possible solutions for making the approach work in Nigeria. According to the authors, this document is a practical guide to implementing the revitalised CLTS approach in Nigeria, and is intended to bring about inclusive, equitable, and effective results. It covers the main barriers and triggers to progress likely to be encountered along the way, provides technical advice on dealing with geophysical environments that make latrine construction difficult, and makes recommendations for monitoring and documenting the process to ensure long-term behaviour change.
The guide is primarily intended to be used by the Nigerian Government and non-state development agencies responsible for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) projects in Nigeria, although aspects of it should also be applicable to other countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
The guide is sub-divided into 4 sections:

• Section 1 Introduction.
• Section 2 Current obstacles and possible solutions
• Section 3 Monitoring, documenting, and sustaining CLTS
• Section 4 Conclusions