Kamal Kar
Dr. Kamal Kar is a renowned international development specialist in rural development, agriculture, and natural resources. He is the pioneer of the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach and founder Chairman of CLTS Foundation, which promotes CLTS across the developing world. This approach focuses on community empowerment and collective behavior change to eliminate the practice of open defecation and poor sanitation practices totally. Dr. Kar has also worked on sustainable livelihood development of nomadic herders in Mongolia, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Sudan, and other countries. He hRead More...
Dr. Kamal Kar is a renowned international development specialist in rural development, agriculture, and natural resources. He is the pioneer of the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach and founder Chairman of CLTS Foundation, which promotes CLTS across the developing world. This approach focuses on community empowerment and collective behavior change to eliminate the practice of open defecation and poor sanitation practices totally. Dr. Kar has also worked on sustainable livelihood development of nomadic herders in Mongolia, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Sudan, and other countries. He has also worked on low-cost farming technologies, urban poverty, slum improvement, and local governance in different countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific. His recent interest is in striking a balance between biomass production and biomass consumption by large-scale adoption of fuel-efficient cooking devices and enhancing the use of diversified non-conventional fuel sources in Ethiopia and a couple of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. This methodology is called the Community Led Total-Stove approach. The CLTS approach has been adopted in over 72 countries, benefiting more than 50 million people and influencing sanitation policies of the government and INGOs in over 30 countries.
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