Comprehending practitioners' assessments of community-led total sanitation
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F19%3A10378957" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/19:10378957 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=-QYRwxf5aM" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=-QYRwxf5aM</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/day070" target="_blank" >10.1093/heapro/day070</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Comprehending practitioners' assessments of community-led total sanitation
Original language description
Around 2.3 billion people in developing countries still lack access to improved sanitation facilities and almost one billion practice open defecation (OD). The Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) has recently become a particularly popular approach used in more than 60 countries. CLTS is a behaviorchange approach that aims to ignite community action and make OD socially unacceptable without providing any external financial or material support to individual households. CLTS is sometimes perceived as a revolutionary approach that has proven to be highly cost-effective in abolishing OD. However, it has been criticized for its use of unethical practices and questioned with respect to the sustainability of its outcomes and the limited health benefits it can generate. Based on semistructured interviews with development workers experienced in the implementation of CLTS in 14 different countries, this paper seeks to examine practical views on the issues surrounding this approach. We found that despite acknowledging some of the controversies and the possibly limited sustainability of results, CLTS is generally considered an effective and satisfactory tool for improving sanitation conditions. Practitioners first of all accentuate the normative importance of the elimination of OD attained through CLTS without weighting on (the absence of) evidence on the longer term effects or impacts on health. However, a need for various modifications of CLTS according to local social and natural environments was strongly expressed, including changes that go against the core principles of CLTS like no subsidies and no technical assistance principles.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50701 - Cultural and economic geography
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA15-21237S" target="_blank" >GA15-21237S: Factors and conditions affecting sanitation behaviour change in developing countries</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Health Promotion International
ISSN
0957-4824
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
34
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
"e129"-"e138"
UT code for WoS article
000514902600006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85070951122