← home / Tools / Handbook on Community-Led Total Sanitation (Plan/IDS)⚙● toolHandbook on Community-Led Total Sanitation (Plan/IDS)Practices that use itCommunity-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in KenyaA rural sanitation methodology in which facilitators trigger communities to collectively analyze their open defecation practices and decide to build latrines by themselves, without hardware subsidy, until reaching Open Defecation Free (ODF) status. Piloted by Plan Kenya in 2007 and adopted by the Ministry of Health as a national strategy. Studies in Siaya and Migori document both coverage increases and a significant reversal of ODF status.● Active· scale national