"It was a wonderful experience interacting with you and appreciate the way you have planned and executed the whole publication process within the agreed timelines.”
Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
“Arriving at a moment of political crisis in the sanitation sector, where less than 5% of countries globally have resourced sanitation policies, this book puts a spotlight and provides tools for countries to elicit government action, leadership, and responsibility in the sanitation sector. The triggering approach and the implication of institutional OD are apt analogies for the political crisis that the sanitation sector finds itself in. This book leverages CLTS Foundation’s decades of work in this space and the learning that community and political leadership are the most powerful drivers of change.”
- Ann Thomas, Senior WASH Advisor, UNICEF, New York
This book explains the need for Institutional Triggering as an important tool to complement the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach and influence larger institutions and powerful actors of development within and outside the government to scale-up the homegrown success of CLTS across their respective nations. It describes how facilitators can convince senior leaders and high officials to spread the success of CLTS to their regions more proactively for the overall growth and advancement of the nation.
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 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.
