Jonny Crocker

TL;DR: New evidence is provided that CLTS outcomes can be sustained in the presence of training provided to local actors, and previous recommendations that CLts is not appropriate in all settings and should be combined with efforts to address barriers households face to building higher quality latrines are strengthened.

TL;DR: Teachers may be more appropriate for a supporting rather than leading role in sanitation promotion because they did demonstrate ability and engagement, and CLTS is most appropriate where open defecation is high because there were no significant changes in sanitation practices or latrine upgrades where baseline opendefecation was low.

TL;DR: The training of natural leaders (NLs) as an addition to a community-led total sanitation intervention in Ghana led to increased time spent on CLTS by community members, increased latrine construction, and a 19.9 percentage point reduction in open defecation.

TL;DR: This is the first study to look quantitatively at water quality monitoring practices in multiple developing countries and finds potential for substantive optimization of monitoring programs by considering field-based testing and by fundamentally reconsidering monitoring approaches for non-piped supplies.