Sanitation

Effective sanitation practices are necessary for a safe environment. Sanitation is more than building latrines, and sanitation can also include: desludging, Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and community approach for Total Sanitation (CATS), latrine alternatives (i.e. Peepoo® bags), temporary latrines, wastewater management, or bathing areas.
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Frontiers of CLTS: Innovations and Insights - CLTS in Post-Emergency and Fragile States Settings

As  an  alternative,  CLTS  can  appear  fundamentally  mismatched  with  post-emergency  and  fragile  states  contexts:  the  core  principle  that  sanitation  hardware  should  not  be  subsidised  can  conflict  with  urgent  need,  and  with  what  some 

Publication year: 2016    Reporting Agency: Tearfund    Author(s): Greaves_F.

Learning and recommendations on the use of CLTS in emergency and post conflict/post-emergency situations

This forum includes an update on learning and practice in relation to health and hygiene promotion, and community involvement in emergency programs with a focus on the use of Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS).

Publication year: 2012    Reporting Agency: Tearfund    Author(s): Graeves_F.

Urban Disaster Response and Recovery: Gender-sensitive WASH programming in post- earthquake Haiti

After the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, Oxfam carried out various activities to improve WASH facilities for communities and additional activities that targeted the cholera outbreak.

Publication year: 2014    Reporting Agency: Oxfam    Author(s): Cohen_M.