1. SuSanA to serve as online host for upcoming WASH and Nutrition Forum
2. Celebrate World Toilet Day with SuSanA!
3. Rich discussions at the 20th SuSanA meeting held in Stockholm, Sweden
4. SuSanA @ World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden
5. SuSanA @ WEDC conference and 16th SanCoP meeting
6. SuSanA @ Dry Toilet Conference
7. SuSanA Forum hosted two more Thematic Discussion Series, one currently running
8. SuSanA Working Groups restructured, new leads
9. Webinar on CLTS
10. New SuSanA featured user: Sowmya Rajasekaran
11. SuSanA welcomes seven new partners
12. SuSanA Discussion Forum Digest: what has been discussed?
13. Sharing knowledge: Recently uploaded publications in the SuSanA library
14. Upcoming partner events and training courses

1. SuSanA to serve as online host for upcoming WASH and Nutrition Forum

In the run-up to the World Toilet Day, the German WASH Network is hosting the WASH and Nutrition Forum on November 11 and 12 in Bonn. This forum will bring together experts from both – the sanitation and nutrition sector - to share research and learning, identify best practices and develop strategies to integrate WASH and nutrition programming in development and humanitarian contexts.

The conference, chaired by Uschi Eid (chair of the United Nations Secretary Generals’ Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation, UNSGAB), will have an effective mix of presentation and discussion during "mirror sessions”. Here, sector professionals from the WASH and nutrition sectors will sit next to their counterparts and present their work and perspective.
Beyond the mirror session renowned speakers such as Catarina de Albuquerque (Sanitation and Water for All, Vice Chair), Gunther Beger (Director General, Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany)  Leo Heller (UN Special Rapporteur for the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation, tbc) and Tom Arnold (Scaling Up Nutrition Movement Coordinator ad interim, tbc) will inspire outcome-oriented discussion, hereby helping the participants to learn about the latest evidence on the links between WASH and nutrition and to explore examples of successful programming.

As the online hosting platform of the WASH and Nutrition Forum, SuSanA will keep you updated about the programme and will provide a full documentation of the event.

Further information about the WASH and Nutrition Forum
Registration
 

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2. Celebrate World Toilet Day with SuSanA!

“Toilets and Nutrition” is the motto of this year’s UN World Toilet Day (WTD) pointing out the close link between food and nutrition security and water, sanitation and hygiene.
The WTD is celebrated annually by NGOs, civil society institutions and the private sector on19 November as the foundation day of the World Toilet Organisation in 2001. The campaign aims to draw global attention to the sanitation crisis with civil society engagement for awareness raising around the globe.

The SuSanA secretariat naturally supports the WTD campaign and will share with all SuSanA partners and members updates about ways to get engaged, as we find out about them. In addition the focusing of Working Group 9 on Public Awareness, Advocacy and Civil Society Engagement is good timing, as this working group will be instrumental in building momentum amongst the SuSanA community to become active on WTD.

The following are some quick links for WTD 2015:
World Toilet Day
The Urgent Run

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3. Rich discussions at the 20th SuSanA meeting held in Stockholm, Sweden

Picture of the 20^th SuSanA meeting in Stockholm, Seweden

The 20th SuSanA meeting was hosted by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and the SuSanA secretariat on 22 August 2015 in the run-up to the Stockholm World Water Week 2015. It was attended by about 60 participants in Stockholm and livestreamed to allow online participation from all around the world.

The meeting started with one of the highlights of the day: the session about the challenges of monitoring and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and what SuSanA can bring to the post-2015 sanitation agenda. During the session Elisabeth Kvarnström (Urban Water Management, Inc.) showed the functional sanitation ladder as a tool that can be used to monitor the SDGs on a project level; Guy Hutton (World Bank) explained the cost and benefits of achieving the water and sanitation goals; Graham Alabaster (UN Habitat) pointed out the necessity to support the capacity of national structures at the country level; Kitchinme Bawa (AMCOW) summarized the links between the N’gor declaration and the SDGs; Hanna Woodburn (PPPHW) highlighted the importance of making hygiene management explicit in the SDGs; Corrine Schuster-Wallace (UNU-INWEH) the interlinkages between different SDGs and Stef Smits (IRC) highlighted that we only have 5 years – to get the financing, governance and strategies right – to deliver by 2030. Finally all panelists gave great inputs about the future role of SuSanA in the post 2015 sanitation agenda in which they emphasized to keep  the focus on research, policy and practice, called for tools and methods for tracking sanitation budgets and to keep SuSanA as a space in which failures can be discussed, learnt from and analysed.

The following session on sanitation and nutrition showed that despite a strong knowledge about the connection between WASH projects and infections, the effects of WASH on acute under nutrition are far less clear than expected. Lizette Burgers (UNICEF) emphasized that the World Toilet Day 2015 will be used to raise awareness about the sanitation crisis and to show the link between sanitation and nutrition. “Schools as a perfect place for institutionalizing” was one of the conclusions of the panel discussion in which Bella Monse (GIZ) gave valuable insights from her practical experience.

In the city and planning session various planning tools such as Sanitation Safety Planning (Kate Medlicott, WHO), the SaniPath Tool (Katherine Robb, Emory University) and so-called shit flow diagrams - SFDs - (Arne Panesar, GIZ) were discussed. Thomas Kluge (ISOE) presented processes of waste water treatment and reuse in Namibia as a practical example of closing the sanitation loop.

Thilo Panzerbieter (GTO) opened the afternoon session “Addressing Long-Term Sustainability & Market Development” by pointing out the necessity of post implementation monitoring strategies to sustain WASH services in the long-term. Susan Davis (Improve International) talked about sanitation failures and what we can learn from them. Genevieve Kelly (PSI) explained the financial strategy of PSI to sell toilet loans in Bihar, India and Antoinette Kome (SNV) presented the findings of SuSanA’s thematic discussion on Urban Sanitation Finance.

The meeting ended with a session on capacity development and knowledge sharing in which Dorothee Spuhler (seecon) presented the cewas smart start-up programme that provides water and sanitation entrepreneurs with business skills and coaching. Shauna Curry (CAWST) and Trevor Surridge (GIZ) highlighted crowdsourcing and linking WASH resources (e.g. WASH libraries) as ideas to improve the knowledge management of the sanitation sector and then invited all participants to a great brainstorming session about how the knowledge management in sanitation could be improved.

The 20th SuSanA meeting was accompanied by several SuSanA Working Group Meetings that took place during the World Water Week and an open Working Group Exchange meeting to discuss relevant topics for the SuSanA working groups on August 27.

The presentations and a full video coverage of the 20th SuSanA meeting as well as a documentation of the SuSanA Working Group meetings and the minutes of the working group exchange meeting are available on the 20th SuSanA meeting page.

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4. SuSanA @ World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden

SuSanA was involved in a variety of sessions at this year’s World Water Week in Stockholm. Most of them were linked to a SuSanA working group meeting. Take a look at the following session reports

Session: Kick-Start Development through Holistic Scaling-up of School Sanitation

Scaling-up WASH in schools can make an important contribution towards achieving the SDGs – this is one of the key messages of the session “Kick-Start Development through Holistic Scaling-up of School Sanitation” which was convened by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Germany, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany, the German Toilet Organization, the KfW Development Bank and the World Health Organization together with SuSanA, on 23 August.

The session introduced a variety of school sanitation initiatives from different parts of the world (e.g. Fit4School, GTO-Initiative “Toilets making the Grade®”, School-Sanitation Initiatives in India and Africa). Furthermore the SuSanA publication “Making WASH in Schools more sustainable (Volume II) – Case Studies from SuSanA Partners” that was initiated by the SuSanA Working Group 7 (Community, rural and schools with gender and social aspects) was launched as well as a checklist for the site selection of sanitary facilities authored by the SuSanA Working Group 11 (Groundwater protection).

The session was complemented by a SuSanA Working Group Meeting 7 on WASH in schools in which fruitful discussions around O&M of school sanitation, quality assurance and monitoring as well as software and hardware aspects took place.

Session: Moving forward Complementarity of Humanitarian and Development WASH Approaches in Protracted Crisis

A full room enjoyed the Keynote speeches by the Honorable Minister Dr. Hazim El Naser (Jordan) and the Honorable Minister Tanveer Aslam Malik (Punjab, Pakistan) which highlighted the urgency and need for humanitarian and development WASH approaches to complement each other. The continued commitment and efforts of the convenors of the event were applauded and a call for an increase in resources in light of the current widespread Refugee crisis was made.

Input presentations on Urban WASH, Sanitation Solutions, Case Study South Sudan and UNICEF’s approach set the scene for the table discussions on Donor contribution, Crisis affected country contribution and implementing organisation contribution. Each table discussion produced three opportunities and proposed actions to realise those opportunities.

The event was convened by the Federal Foreign Office, Germany; German WASH Network; Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland; European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO); United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Sustainable Sanitation Alliance.

The discussions that were started during the event continued later on in the afternoon at the SuSanA working group 8: Emergency and reconstruction situations meeting

A further link to the German WASH Networks page
Resources from the session can be found here

Session: WASH in Nutrition: strategic and operational solutions to fight under-nutrition

The well-attended session “WASH in Nutrition: strategic and operational solutions to fight under-nutrition” at the Stockholm World Water Week focused on updates on the latest research and the institutional as well as operational integration of the WASH and Nutrition nexus. The

ACF-German WASH Network (GWN) event provided an overview of the latest field experiences and research projects linking poor WASH status, infections and under-nutrition.

The main findings from the nourishing dialogues with participants from the two sectors included the importance of early childhood hygiene, underlined by Oliver Cumming (LSHTM) experiences from the German Initiative “One World – No Hunger”, a statement from Burkina Faso’s Minister Francois Lompo and ACF’s take on the challenge in measuring diarrhoea and the impact of WASH projects on prevention, treatment and post-recovery relapse of malnutrition cases.

The panel of experts was followed by working group discussions. The main recommendations were presented at the SuSanA Working Group 12 on WASH and Nutrition meeting held the same day.

The conclusions of the session can be found here
The documentation of the SuSanA Working Group 12 meeting is available here  (Scroll down to WG 12 meeting)

Session: Sustainable City Sanitation – from planning to implementation

On 26 August, SuSanA together with the SuSanA partners EAWAG, GIZ, Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) and Water for People convened the session “Sustainable City Sanitation – from planning to implementation”. The session stimulated the debate around cutting-edge city sanitation themes through “open-fishbowl” conversations with three roundtable discussions.

In the discussion about City Sanitation Plans participants highlighted that substantial ownership of municipalities and deriving leadership is a key for success. Respective preparation of key players through i.e. capacity development and awareness building should be an integral part of the whole exercise.

The roundtable focusing on so-called Shit Flow Diagrams (SFDs) pointed out that SFDs can be a game changer as they lead to the recognition of percentage of population relying on onsite sanitation systems and show the scale of the problems related to the lack of proper faecal sludge management.

The third roundtable discussed the excreta management ladder and highlighted that sewerage can be an appropriate solution in some specific contexts; but in most contexts improved onsite sanitation (including faecal sludge management) will be more cost-effective and achievable within the SDG period.

The session was well attended by about 80 persons and gathered a diverse public committed and interested in the topics.

Subsequently a meeting of the SuSanA working group 6 (Cities) took place in which Antoinette Kome (SNV), John Sauer (PSI) and  Thomas Kluge (ISOE) presented different aspects around city sanitation planning.

The presentations of the working group 6 meeting are available here  (Scroll down to WG 6 meeting)

More information about SFDs can be found on the SFD portal.

Session: Gender sensitive indicators in sanitation and wastewater planning and implementation

“Why and how to include gender sensitive indicators into the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6?” These questions were addressed by the side event on “Gender sensitive indicators in sanitation and wastewater planning and implementation“, which was convened by WECF, AMCOW, BORDA, GIZ, GWA, UNEP, UNESCO and SuSanA.

During the first part of the sessions best practices on ensuring gender-responsive wastewater projects and programs from the Caucasus, Jordan, India, Bangladesh and AMCOW were presented. A subsequent high-level panel with Uschi Eid (UNSGAB), Catarina de Albuquerque (SWA), Eric Hoa (UNEP), and Nelson Gomonda (AMCOW) reminded the audience that “What is not measured, is not being done” and called for sex-disaggregated data to be measured in order to ensure gender equitable implementation of the SDGs.

A video recording of the session can be watched here and a report compiled by WECF can be found here
The session was complemented by a SuSanA Working Group 7 meeting on gender which is documented here (Scroll down to Working Group meetings) and a discussion on the SuSanA Forum.

Session: Pieces of the Puzzle: Achieving Sustainable Rural Sanitation at Scale

A great deal has been learned in the past few years about what is working and what is not towards achieving progress for rural sanitation, and particular themes have emerged in the effort to reach scale: finance, government engagement and a consumer focus such as product design and

demand creation,  and – underpinning each of these components – partnerships. With the shift of focus in 2015 towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and achieving universal use of sanitation products and services, it’s time to act bigger and bolder about how to model success and bring lasting change. To fulfil these big goals, we must be transformative; partnership-driven and use system-wide approaches. The event brought together key players currently active in efforts to scale up sanitation services and unpacked some of the key pieces of the puzzle and offered insight on what is still missing. The break-out groups were on Government Engagement led by Antoinette Kome (SNV) and supported by Trevor Surridge (GIZ); Product Design led by Steve Sugden (Water For People); Private Financing led by John Sauer (PSI) and Public Financing led by Ton Schouten (IRC) and Genevieve Kelly (PSI). The event was convened by Population Services International (PSI), GIZ, IRC; Plan International; SNV; Sustainable Sanitation Alliance and Water For People.

A number of questions were collected that due to time constraints the panellist were not able to answer. It was proposed that these questions be posted in the SuSanA forum and get answered there, here is the thread recently started to do this

Session: “SFD – A tool to foster sustainable urban sanitation programming”

On 26 August, the SFD Promotion Initiative convened the side event “SFD – A tool to foster sustainable urban sanitation programming”. Partners of the Initiative introduced the SFD approach to the audience at Stockholm World Water Week and launched the SFD portal. The presentations covered the main features and background of the SFD approach; first experiences in producing SFDs and its use as an advocacy and decision-support tool in India. Following the presentations, participants had the opportunity to discuss the potential and limitations of the approach, data quality issues and use of the SFDs.

The SFD Promotion Initiative is formed by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE); the Sustainable Sanitation Program of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ GmbH), the Department Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development (Sandec) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG); the water@leeds research group of the University of Leeds (UoL); the Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) of Loughborough University and the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) of the World Bank.

The presentations of the side events and a report from the session are available here.
More information about SFDs can be found on the SFD portal.

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5. SuSanA @ WEDC conference and 16th SanCoP meeting

Focusing on the sustainable delivery of WASH services beyond 2015, this year’s WEDC International Conference took place in Loughborough, UK, from 27-31 July.

As part of the WEDC conference, the 16th UK SanCop meeting entitled “What can the UK SanCoP bring to the post 2015 SDG agenda? Learning from progress and failure” was held on 27 July.

SuSanA, being the digital home for the UK San Cop, was represented by the SuSanA Secretariat at the UK SanCop meeting. With three interactive sessions run by Guy Norman (WSUP), Barbara Evans (University of Leeds) and Andrew Cotton (WEDC) the meeting, highlighted the importance of good data collection and monitoring of the SDGs as key to accountability.

During the WEDC conference SuSanA was represented in the exhibition area with a well stocked booth of SuSanA publications and partner of SuSanA publications.

The papers of the 38th WEDC conference are now available at the WEDC Knowledge Base
Please find discussion and feedback of the WEDC conference in the SuSanA Discussion Forum
The synopsis of the the UK SanCop meeting is available at the SuSanA website

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6. SuSanA @ Dry Toilet Conference

Every three years, the Global Dry Toilet Association of Finland organizes an International Dry Toilet Conference in Tampere, Finland. The 5th conference took place at the Tampere University of Applied Sciences on 19th to 22nd of August 2015. This year’s title was Dry Toilet Conference 2015 – Solutions. The conference is a platform for stakeholders working with ecological sanitation to network and share their ideas and experiences on dry toilet technology, nutrient recycling and ecological sanitation. Key note speakers were Dana Cordell, Research Principal at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney and co-founder of the Global Phosphorus Research Institute (GPRI) as well as Naoyuki Funamizu, professor at the Faculty of Environmental Engineering in Hokkaido University, Japan with wastewater

reclamation and reuse, and sustainable sanitation systems as main research topics. The conference was well attended with many international participants and a strong presence of representatives from Africa and Asia as well as a number of students from Tampere University. Taking part in the program, Trevor Surridge (SuSanA secretariat) held a lecture on the SuSanA Knowledge Management and Samuel Renggli (EAWAG/Sandec) presented the EAWAG compendium. Emma Roach (GIZ) presented a paper about dry toilets solutions for mass events in Germany. The SuSanA booth at the conference resulted in a high level of interest from the attending institutions in joining the network and all the partner publications at the booth were easily disseminated to the participants.

The conference provided a fertile setting for the SuSanA Working Group 5 (Food Security & Productive Sanitation Systems) to meet over lunch where participants discussed possible future engagement areas for the working group. It was suggested to produce a factsheet about productive sanitation as a solution for the reduction of the emission of pharmaceuticals from excreta and urine into the environment, as well as to start focused discussions on productive sanitation in emergency and disaster relief situations and mass events as well as terra preta sanitation. The ideas discussed were fed into the thematic exchange at the Stockholm World Water Week.

Presentations and papers of the Dry Toilet Conference are available here

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7. SuSanA Forum hosted two more Thematic Discussion Series, one currently running

Since kicking-off the SuSanA thematic discussion series in February of this year, SuSanA has hosted two more discussions. “Urban Sanitation Finance: From Micro to Macro Level?”, which took place in June/July investigated different means of financing sanitation: from national and local taxes, to city level sustainable cost recovery based on the 4Ts  - tariffs, taxes, trade, and transfers -, to microfinance.

“SDGs: Enough to end the sanitation crisis?”, hosted together with End Water Poverty, took place in the first two weeks of September and used the run up to the UN Sustainable Development Summit as an opportunity to take a closer look at SDG #6, addressing water and sanitation. Participants discussed whether the SDG indicators for sanitation are sufficient to enable countrie to effectively deliver successful sanitation outcomes and what steps have to be taken to prioritize those most in need. Moreover, the discussion series addressed civil society’s role in monitoring progress on the SDGs as well as investigated the differences between basic and safe/safely managed sanitation and how the two come together to guarantee the progressive realisation of safe sanitation for all.

More thematic discussions are in the works and we invite you to join the current debate on “Sanitation and hygiene behaviour change programming for scale and sustainability” hosted together with WSSCC and running from 22 September to 12 October.

If you are interested in organising a thematic discussion (series), you are most welcome to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to discuss the format and timeline.

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8. SuSanA Working Groups restructured, new leads

The thematic working groups (WG) of SuSanA cover a variety of different sanitation aspects and provide outputs that underline the problems and opportunities of these aspects.
To focus the scope of WG 9 (Sanitation as a Business & Public Awareness), the working group leads of WG 9 and WG 2 (Finance and Economics) together with the SuSanA secretariat have decided to shuffle the working groups as follows with a new name and adapted focus:

• Working Group 2: Market Development
• Working Group 9: Public Awareness, Advocacy and Civil Society Engagement

John Sauer, senior technical advisor at PSI and Ada Oko-Williams, senior manager at WaterAid, will support Jonathan Parkinson (Oxfam) as leads of WG 2. In WG 9, Jack Sim (WTO) and Carol McCreary (PHLUSH) remain the leads. Furthermore, WG 5 (Food Security & Productive Sanitation Systems) will be supported by a new co-lead Linus Dagerskog, Research Associate at SEI, who joins Gina Itchon (Xavier University). WG 6 (Cities) will be strengthened by Prit Salian from i-San Associates and Moritz Gold from EAWAG/Sandec joining as co-leads together with Christoph Lüthi (EAWAG / Sandec).
In WG 12 (WASH & Nutrition) Claire Gaillardou from ACF has joined Stephan Simon (Welthungerhilfe) as lead.

A warm welcome and thank you to all new working group leads!
Last but not least, a big thank you to all outgoing working group leads, namely Jean-Christophe Barbiche (ACF) and Robert Gensch (GTO).

For more information please visit the working groups section

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9. Webinar on CLTS

On July 22, SuSanA members came together for the webinar ‘What constitutes success for CLTS? – Measuring community outcomes and behaviour change’. The webinar took place under the Building Demand for Sanitation (BDS) program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It was jointly organized by the Euforic Services, the SuSanA secretariat and the Stockholm Environment Institute. Initial input came from Ada-Oko Williams (Technical Support Manager, Sanitation and Hygiene, WaterAid UK), Darren Saywell (Senior Director, Water, Sanitation and Health, Plan International USA), Hans-Joachim Mosler (Head of Environmental and Health Psychology, Eawag) and Jonny Crocker (Research Assistant at The Water Institute at UNC, Chapel Hill). In four separate breakout rooms, the participants could discuss in smaller groups during the second half of the webinar. Keeping the ODF status of a community as a sustainable result of CLTS is still one of the major challenges.

Main questions and issues at the webinar were summarized by Ryan Rowe and included

1. ODF may be better suited for motivating communities than measuring success and is not a good metric for comparing communities due to its binary nature;
2. Low overall success rates suggest we are missing an opportunity to better target CLTS to specific communities and consider alternate sanitation strategies where CLTS is not appropriate;
3. We need better data and understanding of how to successfully change long-term social norms

Find out more in the SuSanA Forum

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10. New SuSanA featured user: Sowmya Rajasekaran

Sowmya is the founder and CEO of Verity Smart Life Solutions, an enterprise engaged in ecofriendly toilets for bringing forward transformative change for human well-being and sustainable environments. She has studied an MBA and has lived and worked in India, Nepal and Sweden as financial analyst and researcher in various companies. Without academic training in sanitation, but with interest and a creative mind, she found her way into sanitation, conceptualized a toilet design and takes actively part the SuSanA forum discussions.

Questions & Answers to learn more about Sowmya, her professional life, her views on sanitation, opportunities to bring change and what she takes to a remote island will be available in the Featured User section of the SuSanA forum

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11. SuSanA welcomes seven new partners

We welcome the following new partners who have recently joined SuSanA, bringing the total number to 252 partners. SuSanA members can apply online to have their organisation become a partner here (see also our selection criteria).

The Foundation for Research and Sustainable Development (FRSD) is a registered non-profit, non-governmental organization and one of the conservation organizations active in the Western Ghats Mountains in the field of biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. The foundation has been engaged in educating rural women and children in rural schools on sanitation and traditional water purification technologies to combat water borne diseases in the Western Ghats Mountain.

ICCO Cooperation, as an International Development Organization, with its roots in the Netherlands, works across 44 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The organization has worked together with local partners for community welfare and development based on the twin core principle of sustainable livelihoods and dignity with the aim to achieve sustainable solutions for women, children and marginalized and excluded communities.

Dasra from India has engaged with over 3,000 corporates, foundations and philanthropists and has improved the life chances of over 10 million people. One of Dasra's major areas of focus is sanitation and through partnerships the organization is building a sustainable sanitation ecosystem in India.

Aguaconsult from the United Kingdom provides support to public, private and third sector organisations to improve the delivery of sustainable basic services, including sanitation, for marginalised people in less developed countries. Aguaconsult provides a range of advisory services around the world with a geographic reach across Africa, Latin America and Asia and work in collaborative partnership with a range of clients and content focus areas in sanitation and environmental health as well as water supply, urban planning, and disaster risk reduction.

WSUP from the United Kingdom focuses on developing commercially viable models to help water utilities and municipal authorities reach all citizens in their city with improved water and sanitation. Its mission is to improve the lives of the urban poor in developing countries by strengthening the capacity of service providers and others to provide sustainable water and sanitation services, promote good hygiene and raise the health and environmental standards of the community.

Hydrophil from Austria is an international company with specialisation on the water sector and office locations in Vienna, Austria. Its principle is to act as a team of specialists that is able to respond flexibly to the requirements of its customers. Vast experience and long-lasting co-operations with various partners worldwide, allow the organisation to offer a high level of specialised services in all areas of the water sector as well as overall planning from a single source.

Basic Sanitations Pvt. Ltd. (BSPL) is a professionally managed, socially responsible leading sanitation company, incorporated under The Indian Companies Act 1956 in the year 2001 for providing environment-friendly sanitation products and services. The company offers high quality cutting edge sustainable sanitation products, crafted out of best quality raw materials, at highly competitive prices.

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12. SuSanA Discussion Forum Digest: what has been discussed?

ODF and Slippage - Introduction and questions for discussion (161 view, 4 replies)

Key documents for the sub-category on hand washing (909 views, 9 replies)

WATSAN-AGRICULTURE: Improving on the Nexus among Water Quality and Quantity, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Agriculture (2175 views, 18 replies)

WASH and Nut research project: Impact of Household WASH package to nutrition program in Chad (697 views, 5 replies)

How much evidence do we have that mass deworming of children really has much of an impact? (1382 views, 23 replies)

Structuring of the fecal sludge market for the benefit of poor households in Dakar, Senegal (ONAS) - optimising faecal sludge emptying, transportation, processing (10.23 k views, 27 replies)

What constitutes success for CLTS? – Measuring community outcomes and behavior change (3747 views, 25 replies)

Failures in Sanitation (a list by Improve International) - now also on Wikipedia (2005 views, 7 replies)

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13. Sharing knowledge: Recently uploaded publications in the SuSanA library

Several new publications have been added to SuSanA library summing to 1940 entries till date. We would like to highlight the following publications to you (click here for the complete library):

• Various authors (2015). Making WASH in Schools more Sustainable Vol. II. Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA)
• BMGF (2015). Building demand for sanitation - a 2015 portfolio update and overview - Water, sanitation, and hygiene strategy, June 2015. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, USA
• Various authors (2015). Municipal-supported unsewered sanitation improvements for the urban-poor - Various documents on results from research grant. African Development Bank (AfDB), African Water Facility (AWF)
• Urban, A., Steen, A. (2015). Community-Led Total Sanitation+ (Bong, Lofa and Nimba Counties, Liberia) - Case study of sustainable sanitation projects. Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA)
• Various authors (2015). Testing CLTS Approaches for Scalability - Various documents on results from research grant. Plan International, USA
• Kanathigoda, A. K. (eds.) (2015). Sustainable Sanitation - global commitment to human dignity - Factsheet compilation. Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
• Various authors (2015). Development and dissemination of fecal sludge management toolkit for investors, planners and consultants - Various documents on results from research grant. Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
• Ulbrich, T. (2015). Technical Feasibility of decentralised Greywater Treatment Units to improve Sanitation in peri-urban Areas of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. University of Science and Technology, Centre for Sustainable Environmental Sanitation.

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14. Upcoming partner events and training courses

Have a look at the highlights on upcoming conferences, sanitation events and courses in this section.

International Conference on Terra Preta Sanitation and Decentralised Waste Water Systems
18.11.2015 - 21.11.2015 (Goa, India)

6th South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN VI)
11.01.2016 - 13.01.2016, Dhaka, Bangladesh

18th International Congress & Exhibition of the African Water Association: “Sustainable access to water and sanitation in Africa”
22.02.2016 - 26.02.2016, Nairobi, Kenya

2016 Rotary International Presidential Conference WASH in Schools
18.03.2016 - 19.03.2016, Pasay, Philippines

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