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Can collective action strategies motivate behavior change to reduce open...
Can collective action strategies motivate behavior change to reduce open defecation in rural India? Waterlines, April 2016. Full text Authors: Payal Hathi, Dean Spears, Diane Coffey. RICE Institute....
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A Community Approach to Better Public Health in Rural Liberia
A Community Approach to Better Public Health in Rural Liberia. Global Waters, June 2016 Liberia is no stranger to difficult times, having weathered a devastating Ebola outbreak and now struggling...
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Sanitation in Bangladesh: Revolution, Evolution, and New Challenges
Sanitation in Bangladesh: Revolution, Evolution, and New Challenges, 2016. CLTS Knowledge Hub Learning Paper. Full text Author: Dr Suzanne Hanchett. Our 2015 discussions with people at all levels of...
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Nudging and Habit Change for Open Defecation: New Tactics from Behavioral...
Nudging and Habit Change for Open Defecation: New Tactics from Behavioral Science, March 2016. Full text, pdf Authors: David Neal, Ph.D. (Catalyst), Jelena Vujcic, M.P.H. (Catalyst), Rachel Burns...
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Penn project aims to stop open defecation by changing social norms
Penn project aims to stop open defecation by changing social norms | Source: Penn Current, July 21 2016 | Cristina Bicchieri’s work is not for the faint of heart. The Penn professor of philosophy,...
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What numbers tell us about Open Defecation in India
What numbers tell us about Open Defecation in India | Source: The Hindu, Oct 2 2016 | As per the most recent Swachhta Status Report in 2015, more than half of the rural population (52.1 per cent) of...
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Can collective action strategies motivate behavior change to reduce open...
Can collective action strategies motivate behavior change to reduce open defecation in rural India? 2016. Full text Authors: Payal Hathi, research institute for compassionate economics (r.i.c.e.) Dean...
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Sanitation projects will go down the toilet unless we ask people what they...
Sanitation projects will go down the toilet unless we ask people what they really want. The Conversation, November 27, 2016. Countries have a lot of work to do to achieve the United Nations’...
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The Community Incentive Model: Towards an Open Defecation Free Chhattisgarh
The Community Incentive Model: Towards an Open Defecation Free Chhattisgarh, 2016. Institute of Development Studies. Full text The Indian Governments Swachh Bharat Mission offers a 12,000 rupee...
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Higher incidents of rape in India linked to open defecation
Higher incidents of rape in India linked to open defecation: Study. Indian Express, December 15, 2016. According to the study, women who use open defecation sites are twice as likely to get raped...
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Ending open defecation: The drive must go beyond mascots, jingles – even toilets
Ending open defecation: The drive must go beyond mascots, jingles – even toilets. Scroll.In, January 3, 2017. Image credit: NDMC handout Even as Mumbai enlists the star power of Salman Khan to end open...
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Progress on CLTSH – Findings from a national review of rural sanitation in...
Progress on CLTSH – Findings from a national review of rural sanitation in Ethiopia: WASH Learning Note. December 2016. Full text, pdf KEY POINTS Rural sanitation coverage in Ethiopia continues to...
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Exploring “The Remote” and “The Rural”: Open Defecation and Latrine Use in...
Exploring “The Remote” and “The Rural”: Open Defecation and Latrine Use in Uttarakhand, India. World Development, January 2017. Authors: Kathleen O’Reilly, Richa Dhanju, Abhineety Goel. Full text...
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Understanding Open Defecation in Rural India: Untouchability, Pollution, and...
Understanding Open Defecation in Rural India: Untouchability, Pollution, and Latrine Pits. Economic & Political Weekly, January 7, 2017. Full text, pdf Authors: Diane Coffey, Aashish Gupta, Payal...
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Duncan Mara – The elimination of open defecation and its adverse health...
The elimination of open defecation and its adverse health effects: a moral imperative for governments and development professionals. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, February...
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Discovering sanitation realities through rural immersions
Discovering sanitation realities through rural immersions. by Jamie Myers, CLTS, March 2017. At the end of last year the CLTS Knowledge Hub heard that the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore,...
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In Mali, Communities Take Health and Well-Being into their Own Hands
In Mali, Communities Take Health and Well-Being into their Own Hands. Global Waters, July 18, 2017. In the center of Simaye village in Mali’s Mopti Region, men, women, and children gather under a large...
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Nearly a Billion People Still Defecate Outdoors. Here’s Why
Nearly a Billion People Still Defecate Outdoors. Here’s Why. Nat Geo Magazine, August 2017. The problem isn’t just a lack of toilets—it’s a lack of toilets that people want to use. The result: millions...
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Casteism is the biggest impediment to success of Swachh Bharat Mission, say...
Casteism is the biggest impediment to success of Swachh Bharat Mission, say scholars Dean Spears, Diane Coffey. First Post, August 13, 2017. Why are children in India shorter than children from other...
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Q&A: Kamal Kar on ending open defecation
Q&A: Kamal Kar on ending open defecation. Devex, November 21, 2017. PHNOM PENH — There are 13 years to go to reach the Sustainable Development Goals, including SDG 6.2, which mandates the end of...
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USAID/WASHPaLS webinar on CLTS and open defecation
The USAID-funded Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Partnerships and Learning for Sustainability (WASHPaLS) Project invites you to a webinar examining how community-led total sanitation (CLTS) has...
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Webinar – Contribution of Community-Led Total Sanitation to Ending Open...
Webinar – Contribution of Community-Led Total Sanitation to Ending Open Defecation: Findings of a Desk Review, December 14, 2017. Link to Webinar On Wednesday, December 13, 2017, the USAID-funded...
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Dean Spears on what motivated ‘Where India Goes?’
Dean Spears on what motivated ‘Where India Goes?’ Community Led Total Sanitation, March 30, 2018. In this short video interview Dean Spears (Executive Director, RICE/Assistant Professor of Economics,...
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Jack Sim – Making India open defecation free
Opinion | Making India open defecation free. by Jack Sim in Livemint, October 17, 2018. Many people view toilets as impure and refrain from installing them within their household premises The risks...
View ArticleCommunity-based approaches to tackle open defecation in rural India: Theory,...
Community-based approaches to tackle open defecation in rural India: Theory, evidence and policies. Observer Research Foundation, December 2018. Open defecation (OD), an age-old practice in India,...
View ArticleWorld Bank – Shifting Social Norms to Reduce Open Defecation in Rural India
Shifting Social Norms to Reduce Open Defecation in Rural India. World Bank, December 2018. This study of Uttar Pradesh systematically measures relevant social norms and cultural schema persistent in...
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Nigeria needs a more effective sanitation strategy. Here are some ideas
Nigeria needs a more effective sanitation strategy. Here are some ideas. Phys.org, June 5, 2019. Our research shows that while community-led total sanitation is effective in Nigeria’s poorer areas,...
View ArticleIdentifying the last 10% of households practising open defecation in rural...
Since 2017, SNV and the Government of Tanzania have been implementing the Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All (SSH4A) programme in eight Tanzanian districts. To date, the number of households...
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What Makes Ghanaians More Likely to Stop Open Defecation and Build Latrines?
What Makes Ghanaians More Likely to Stop Open Defecation and Build Latrines? Global Comunities, November 2019. This brief focuses on the findings from studies in Ghana. This knowledge product is...
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Priorities for the WASH sector in Ethiopia: report from a multi-stakeholder...
By María Florencia Rieiro, Independent WASH Consultant The annual Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Multi-Stakeholder Forum (MSF) is the most important WASH sector event in Ethiopia with over 300...
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