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In this article, the author draws on his experience with Engineers Without Borders Canada. From February 2008 to October 2009, he was seconded to WaterAid Burkina Faso when the NGO decided to adopt Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS). Here, he analyses the practical implications of adopting CLTS for facilitators, managers and organisations. It is particularly relevant to development managers who have heard of CLTS and would like to implement, support or finance the approach. The author argues that not every organisation is ready to adopt CLTS without reassessing its organisational culture, field-level practices, organisational processes and institutional context. The argument is developed by first discussing the reasons that can motivate – or discourage – development agencies to drop their previous approaches to sanitation and take up CLTS. The author then analyses the different implications of CLTS on how development agencies operate.

Participatory Learning and Action (PLA, formerly PLA Notes) is the world's leading series on participatory learning and action approaches and methods. PLA publishes articles on participation aimed at practitioners, researchers, academics and activists. All articles are peer-reviewed by an international editorial board. See: www.planotes.org

Article in: PLA 61. Guest-edited by: Petra Bongartz, Samuel Musembi Musyoki, Angela Milligan and Holly Ashley.

Keywords: CLTS, Community-Led Total Sanitation, water, hygiene, Kamal Kar, health, PRA, scaling up, policy, triggering, training, facilitation.

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