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Tawheed R. Noor
Tawheed R.
Noor
Sonia Ashrafee
Sonia
Ashrafee
An end to open defecation: process, cost, motivation and sustainability
Loughborough University
2018
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Conference contribution
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/conference_contribution/An_end_to_open_defecation_process_cost_motivation_and_sustainability/9595007
Since 2000, Village Education Resource Centre (VERC) and WaterAid Bangladesh (WAB) have in partnership been
pioneering a Community Led Total Sanitation Approach (CLTS), leading to an end to open defecation in over 100 villages in
Bangladesh and not exclusively reliant on addressing traditional indicators such as latrine coverage and hygiene behaviour
change. To explore the process, cost, motivational and sustainability factors which could support a wider application
of this approach, a study was initiated through collaboration between Sophie Allan, a Master’s student at the London
School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Tawheed Reza Noor of WAB. WAB and VERC then undertook additional
research activities including investigation of local government perceptions. Findings highlighted the extremely low cost
of the latrines built, the importance placed upon prestige and practical need over health, the self-determined progression
of households up the sanitation ladder and the enthusiastic support of local government officials.