CLUES and CLTS approaches in sanitation planning and design

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What is the difference between Community-Led Urban Environmental Sanitation (CLUES) and Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS)?

Can CLUES be used instead of CLTS in local communities?

 

 

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  1. Dear George,

    Community-Led Urban Environmental Sanitation Planning (CLUES) -  The Community-Led Urban Environmental Sanitation (CLUES) approach presents comprehensive guidelines for the planning and implementation of environmental sanitation infrastructure and services in disenfranchised urban and peri-urban communities. The planning approach builds on a framework which balances the needs of people with those of the environment to support human dignity and a healthy life. CLUES is a multi-sector and multi-actor approach accounting for water supply, sanitation, solid waste management and storm drainage. It emphasises the participation of all stakeholders from an early stage in the planning process.

    You can read in details about CLUES and the planing process details in the document here. 

     

    Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) : 

    Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) 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).At the heart of CLTS lies the recognition that merely providing toilets does not guarantee their use, nor result in improved sanitation and hygiene. Earlier approaches to sanitation prescribed high initial standards and offered subsidies as an incentive. But this often led to uneven adoption, problems with long-term sustainability and only partial use. It also created a culture of dependence on subsidies. Open defecation and the cycle of fecal–oral contamination continued to spread disease.

    You can read a detail interview we did with Dr. Kamar Kar (CLTS Guru) here.

    Hope this will help you. 

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