2. Community-Led Total Sanitation in Bangladesh: Chronicles of a people’s movement

Ahmed, Shafiul Azam

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“…The Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) led by creating latrine production centres on the assumption that they would stimulate public interest. This approach did not succeed, however (Ahmed, 2011). A social mobilization for sanitation campaign, led by DPHE and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) from 1988 to 1996, was the first attempt at large-scale change using participatory methods.…”

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Sustainable Sanitation for All

Bongartz¹,

Vernon²,

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2016

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Sustainable Sanitation for All

Bongartz¹,

Vernon²,

Fox³

2016

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“…CLTS stresses subjective drivers of behavior change, including cultivating feelings of disgust and dissatisfaction with the status quo, shame at unhygienic conditions, pride when improved sanitation is attained, and so on. (Ahmed 2008).…”

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Changing Preferences through Experimental Games: Evidence from Sanitation and Hygiene in Tamil Nadu

Stopnitzky

2016

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“…However, there were latrines and tube wells (i.e., a type of water well with a long 100‐ to 200‐mm‐wide stainless steel or polyvinyl chloride pipe that is bored into an underground aquifer) in almost all households. Unfortunately, many latrines and tube wells fell into a poor state of maintenance, and many people returned to open defecation (Ahmed 2008). Hence, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) initiated the Sanitation, Hygiene Education and Water Supply in Bangladesh (SHEWA‐B) project in 2007, which helped revitalize efforts aimed at providing safe water and sanitation facilities to 30 million people by raising awareness along with some in‐kind hardware support (UNICEF 2012).…”

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