Community-Led Total Sanitation Knowledge Hub

The Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Knowledge Hub at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) aims to support CLTS to go to scale sustainably and with quality. It does so through action learning and research, networking and communications with practitioners worldwide, the CLTS website, and workshops. It continuously enquires about and raises awareness of the on-the-ground realities of CLTS practice and promotes innovations, good practices and ideas that lead to sustainability and scale. The CLTS approach "is an innovative methodology for mobilising communities to completely eliminate open defecation (OD). Communities are facilitated to conduct their own appraisal and analysis of open defecation (OD) and take their own action to become ODF (open defecation free)." The Hub was created to contribute to the momentum of the CLTS movement and to keep the CLTS community well connected and informed, as well as provide spaces for reflection, continuous learning, and knowledge exchange.

The CLTS Knowledge Hub is committed to supporting CLTS to "go to scale with quality and in a sustainable manner, and to accelerate its spread. It seeks to do so in collaboration with practitioners, policy-makers, researchers and others working in the development, sanitation and related communities, in Governments, international agencies, NGOs, research institutes, and other organisations."