But when a workshop of CLTS fieldworkers and headquarters staff brainstormed in Jakarta in 2006, they gave high scores to teamwork, dedicated facilitation,
Natural Leaders, a tradition of self-help traditions and intensive follow-up after triggering, as in Table 3.1.
Table 3.1 Scoring of conditions for the spread of CLTS
Source: Outcome of brainstorming and scoring at WSLIC II workshop, Jakarta, November 2006
Choosing a good time of year can also help. This is likely to be outside the rains and in agricultural slack seasons. It will also be when materials for construction
are available, for example palm leaves in Kilifi in Kenya. Good timing can help maintain momentum.
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Finally, there is the issue of the government ministry or department responsible for sanitation. Comparing Indonesia and India, and drawing on other experience,
Joshi 2008: 6–7 concludes that CLTS is more readily accepted and spread when sanitation is in health, as in the Ministry of Health in Indonesia, than when it is in
other ministries or departments, as in India.
3.3 Conduct campaigns, encourage competition
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Sanitation campaigns can be at national, state India or province Indonesia, district or subdistrict levels. The examples documented and known at this stage
are at district or subdistrict levels. In all cases government staff have been prominent in leadership. This has been most notable in India with senior members
of the Administration and district-level heads, for example in Jalna District in Maharashtra Vinayak 2006, Panipat District in Haryana Agrawal 2007, Sirsa
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26 The issue of seasonality and timing is not yet in the Handbook.
27 For further details see Handbook 2008: 64–6.
Unfavourable Favourable
Hardware subsidy 25
Teamwork 36
Poor facilitation 20
Dedicated facilitation 28
Unresponsive leadership 12
Natural Leaders 25
Long-term habits 11
Tradition of self-help 20
Geographicalphysical conditions
11 Intensive follow-up
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Knowledge Links 2008c Districts in Haryana, and Mandi District in Himachal Pradesh, and in Bangladesh with Upazilla Nirbahi Officers in charge of upazillas
subdistricts, which have combined NGO Dishari, Plan, and WaterAid and local government staff. Others have been led by staff of one department, as with
midwives in Muara Enim in Sumatra led by Ibu Augustine Handbook: 66, or by Pak Budi in Lumajang in East Java.
Campaigns have combined many activities: triggering and follow-up; training of barefoot engineers; encouraging and promoting private sector and self-help group
supply of hardware materials; regular reporting of progress; mobilisation of teachers and schools; involvement of priests, especially imams in Bangladesh;
official sanctions against some of those who hold out; and encouraging assistance to the poor and weak.
Competition has been fostered – between communities, wards, subdistricts and districts. Cross-visits see below have played their part. Meetings where progress
and its lack are announced in public, have provoked a ‘second triggering’ Pak Budi of Lumajang, Indonesia, pers. comm., with leaders asked to make
commitments. Communities which are lagging have been shamed with offers from other communities to come and help them dig holes.
In all countries, rallies have been held to celebrate success with declarations of ODF status.
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A photograph of the first celebration of ODF status in Kenya, on World Toilet Day 2007, is inside the cover of the Handbook. Radio, press, and
television have played a part. Campaigns have shown a capacity to generate excitement, energy and teamwork
within and between organisations and departments, whether government or NGO or both. This has been a key factor in success. In Hatibandha Upazilla, in NW
Bangladesh, declared ODF in 2006 after an eighteen months campaign, Plan staff look back with nostalgia on the intensive team activities of the campaign.
3.4 Recruit and commit teams and full-time facilitators
