The document discusses Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), which focuses on changing sanitation behaviors by invoking collective feelings of disgust regarding open defecation, rather than just building toilets. It emphasizes community involvement and the emergence of local leadership to drive sanitation improvements organically. The approach relies on collective decision-making, internal motivations, and innovative local solutions.

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2. Who is
responsible
for a clean
environment?

3. Do people
eat their
“shit”?

4. When is
hand-washing
necessary?

7. Community-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.

8. Community-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.

9. The basic assumption is that
no human being can stay
unmoved once they have
learned that they are
ingesting other people’s
faeces.

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14. Is total, meaning
that it affects all in
the community and
visitors as well

16. Is based on
collective community
decision-making and
action by all

18. Is driven by sense of
collective achievement
and motivations that are
internal to communities,
not by external
subsidies or pressures

20. 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

22. Generates
diverse local
actions and
innovations

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