Community Approaches to Sanitation

Need of a public resource easily accessible to all the practicing and potential practitioners including senior and mid-level managers, trainers and facilitators.

Non-availability of a standardized training package on SBCC including community approaches to sanitation in the Indian context.

National and state governments investing extensively on capacity building of skills and competencies of people involved in planning, designing and implementing communication interventions

Need to build capacities to integrate communication interventions with the overall programme delivery of SBM (G)

Rationale for the CAS training package

Community Approaches to Sanitation (CAS), a term applied by MDWS to encompass the service delivery approach to making habitations, villages, GPs, blocks, districts and states in India Open Defecation Free.

Embedded in this approach are elements of community led total sanitation (CLTS) and community approaches to total sanitation (CATS).

What is CAS?

Process of developing the CAS Training PackageProcess of developing the CAS training package

Extensive literature review on SBCC/CATS/CLTS training modules and packages

Field study across four districts of Angul, Bikaner, Indore and Nadia

Consultation with sector experts and practitioners at national and state level

Review and consultation with MDWS for finalisation

The training package contains the following five documents:

One-day orientation module for senior level managers

Two-day orientation module for mid-level managers

Five-day training module for community facilitators/motivators

Three-day training of trainers (ToT) module for CAS trainers

A facilitators’ guide that explains how to conduct training programmes using the training modules outlined above

CAS training package design overview

This package can be used by any trainer or training organisation that has prior experience of conducting training programmes based on participatory methodologies

Users of the package:

Key Resource Centres (KRCs) of the MDWS, GOI;

Administrative Training Institutes (ATIs)/State Academies of Training across different states;

State Institutes of Rural Development (SIRDs);

National and international non-government organisations (NGOs);

UN agencies

National and international institutes working on rural sanitation in India.

Who should use this package?

The package is designed as a flexible and dynamic document amenable to adaptation in varying state and district contexts.

Based on the emerging needs for extensive capacity building, the delivery of the training can be contextualized to various requirements.

Flexibility and adaptability of the package

Checklist: Selection of participants

Checklist: Arrangements at the training venue

Checklist: Preparing for field visits

List of Audio/Visual resources

List of useful links for CAS modules

The facilitators’ guide includes the following resource materials

Community Approaches to Sanitation