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Scaling Up Sanitation: Evidence from an RCT in Indonesia

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a widely used sanitation intervention, Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), using a randomized controlled trial. The intervention was implemented at scale across rural East Java in Indonesia. CLTS increases toilet construction, reduces roundworm infestations, and decreases community tolerance of open defecation. Financial constraints faced by poorer households limit their ability to improve sanitation. We also examine the program's scale up process which included local governments taking over implementation of CLTS from professional resource agencies. The results suggest that all of the sanitation and health benefits accrue from villages where resource agencies implemented the program, while local government implementation produced no discernible benefits.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10619

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Health and Economic Development
Thema
impact evaluation
sanitation
scale up
development
health

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Cameron, Lisa A.
Shah, Manisha
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2017

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Cameron, Lisa A.
  • Shah, Manisha
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2017

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