Sanitation has emerged from being a neglected topic to being a key priority for donors and governments. As its priority has increased, the approach to sanitation has shifted to be more of everyone’s issue in the community as well as being driven by the private sector.

Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) as an approach for ensuring that the rural communities have increased access to sanitation has been successful in many communities in Africa and Asia since its inception in 2005. If one takes time to take stock of gains made, the figures are impressive. While we swiftly transition from the MDGs to the SDGs, we are obviously taking stock of previous successes and failures and looking at what has been achieved in the past decade in WASH, among many other development aspects.

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