This article examines community-level dynamics in sustaining sanitation outcomes in Cambodia and Ghana. The authors rigorously analyse two different contexts of CLTS application and present the factors or “pathways” which foster sustainable CLTS. The Cambodian and Ghanaian settings reveal different pathways to the presence and use of household toilets, making a case for sanitation programmes to tailor their strategies to the operating contexts where they apply.
This article represents a good balance to the temptation we sometimes have in the sector to insist on ‘global’ frameworks and methods.
