SuSanA (2025) 35th SuSanA Meeting - Presentations, Recordings and further Resources
The 35th SuSanA Meeting took place on 23 August 2025. It was organised by the SuSanA Secretariat with support and contributions from the Global Steering Committee, SuSanA Partners, Members, Working Groups, Regional Chapters, and many others. This page serves as a central collection point for various resources from the meeting, including recordings, presentations, and an overview of the programme. We would like to once again thank all […]
Online since: 25.08.2025
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Water for Women (2019) ‘Do No Harm’ for inclusive WASH: working towards a shared understanding Reflections from the Water for Women Fund’s South Asia Regional Learning Event
Water for Women sees an intentional focus on ‘Do No Harm’ (DNH) approaches as a critical way of supporting an ethical approach to inclusion. This includes addressing the risk of backlash that comes with supporting representation and decision-making of women and marginalised groups to ensure that no one is left behind in WASH programming. The Fund aims to sharpen collective understanding and practice of DNH […]
Online since: 18.06.2025
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SuSanA (2024) 34th SuSanA Meeting - Presentations, Recordings and further Resources
The 34th SuSanA meeting took place on 24th August 2024. It was organised by the SuSanA Secretariat with support and contributions from the Global Steering Commitee, SuSanA Partners, Members, Working Groups, Regional Chapters and many more. This entry is the collection point of the different resources from the SuSanA Meeting, including recordings, presentations and program overview. We once again thank all the speakers and everyone, who supported […]
Online since: 28.08.2024
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SuSanA (2023) 33rd SuSanA Meeting - Presentations, Recordings and further Resources
The 33nd SuSanA meeting took place on 20th August 2023. It was organised by the SuSana Secretariat with support and contributions from the Global Steering Commitee, SuSanA Partners, Members, Working Groups, Regional Chapters and many more. This entry is the collection point of the different resources from the SuSanA Meeting, including recordings, presentations and program overview. We once again thank all the speakers and everyone, who supported […]
Online since: 21.08.2023
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SuSanA (2022) 32nd SuSanA Meeting - Presentations, Recordings and further Resources
The 32nd SuSanA meeting - the third time online - took place on 22nd August 2022. It was organised by the SuSana Secretariat with support and contributions from SuSanA Partners, Members, Working Groups, Regional Chapters and many more. This entry is the collection point of the different resources from the SuSanA Meeting, including recordings, presentations and program overview. We once again thank all the speakers and […]
Online since: 23.08.2022
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WaterAid (2022) Protecting the health, safety, and dignity of sanitation workers in Tanzania
Sanitation workers provide services that are essential to public health, but often under terrible and hazardous working conditions. WaterAid Tanzania’s assessment highlighted the challenges they face and put forward the following recommendations for the Government and sanitation stakeholders: • Advocate for the recognition of sanitation workers. • Develop the capacity of Local Government Authorities to register sanitation service providers. • Develop a suitable model for the formalisation of sanitation worker […]
Online since: 18.06.2022
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N. Klaesener-Metzner, P. van Maanen, S. Cavill (2022) The Status of Hand Hygiene Facilities in Public Spaces in South Asia
Access to adequate hand hygiene facilities (HHFs), including a reliable supply of water and soap, is paramount to ensure that daily hand hygiene can be practiced in public places. With COVID-19, public spaces have become an important location for the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector to engage in when it comes to key moments for hand hygiene. However, the nature of public places means that clear ownership for […]
Online since: 08.03.2022
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Oxfam (2009) Public Health Briefing Paper: Working with Community Committees.
Strong community participation, often channelled through beneficiary groups or committees, is the backbone of Oxfam‟s approach to Public Health programming. It facilitates community-led project design, implementation and monitoring, and encourages participation and accountability. Working with committees also allows us to work effectively with large populations and to continue activities when it is not safe or practical for staff to be present in the field. The […]
Online since: 08.01.2022
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Oxfam (2018) An Introduction to Community Engagement in WASH
The overall aim of Oxfam’s WASH response in emergencies is to minimise public health risks in relation to water, sanitation and hygiene. This means working more directly with a wide range of people affected by the crisis to better understand them, to motivate them to make positive behaviour changes, and to strengthen their capacity to reduce/prevent public health risks and make their own decisions. We […]
Online since: 06.01.2022
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House, S., Ferron, S. et al. (2014) Violence, Gender and WASH. A Practitioner´s Toolkit. Toolset 4-E Methodologies for Working With Communities. Pocket Chart Voting and Participatory Ranking
Pocket charts and participatory ranking are two useful methodologies that can help to identify differences in experiences and opinions of different groups in the community, as well as to understand the scale of a problem. As pocket chart voting can be done in private, this method could be well suited for identifying the experiences women and girls or other community members have of harassment or […]
Online since: 05.01.2022
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Jones, H., Reed, B. (2005) Water and Sanitation for Disabled People and Other Vulnerable Groups Report of Conference and Workshop in Cambodia
The one day Conference held on 9th March 2006 was entitled “Water and sanitation for disabled people and other vulnerable groups: improving access and inclusion.” The purpose of the conference was to introduce the issues and problems of accessing and using WATSAN services and facilities for disabled people and other vulnerable groups, including solutions and examples of good practice for making WATSAN facilities more accessible […]
Online since: 12.05.2021
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Global WASH Cluster (2016) Guidance on Market Based Programming for Humanitarian WASH Practitioners
WASH markets are likely to be affected by a crisis. It can create disruption of both supply of and access to WASH-related goods and services. Both need to be considered and addressed by humanitarian responses to people’s needs. But if humanitarian agencies do not consider markets, interventions can accidentally harm these markets and the whole population depending on them. In the case of weak or […]
Online since: 06.04.2021
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TNUSSP (2021) Women in Sanitation Campaign 2021
To celebrate the occasion of International Women’s day on March 8 th , the Tamil Nadu Urban Sanitation Support Programme (TNUSSP) and the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) has launched a social media campaign on women in sanitation. The stories being shared on social media raises important questions, not just to women but also to men who are playing different roles across the full […]
Online since: 30.03.2021
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SuSanA (2020) 30th SuSanA Meeting Presentations, Recordings and further Resources
The 30th SuSanA meeting - the first virtual of its kind - took place from August 17th to August 28th 2020. It was organised by the SuSana Secretariat with support and contributions from SuSanA Partners, Members, Working Groups and Regional Chapters. This entry is the collection point of the different resources from the SuSanA Meeting, including recordings, presentations, flyers and program overview. We once again […]
Online since: 05.10.2020
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Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) (2020) Thematic Working Aid “Leave no one behind in practice: Water, Sanitation & Hygiene” by SDC (in English and French)
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognises “that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development”. In adopting this Agenda, the international community pledged to leave no one behind, to see to it that the Goals and targets are met for all nations and peoples and for all segments of […]
Online since: 03.07.2020
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Global WASH Cluster (2019) GWC Annual Report 2018
The Global WASH Cluster Annual Report for 2018 summarizes the most salient results achieved over the year, the key challenges faced in implementing the Global WASH Cluster (GWC) Strategic Plan and recommends activities to overcome the challenges. The 2018 Annual Report follows the model established in the 2017 Annual Report. The priority activities are identified and listed in line with the new Result Framework defined […]
Online since: 01.04.2019
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Jacob, N. (2018) ODF+, ODF++ and Sustainability of Sanitation Thematic Discussion Series Synthesis
The responses provided a canvas of problems with sustaining ODF that covers technical, behavioural and physical issues. These issues, persistent since before SBM, must be overcome before India could move onto ODF+, ODF++ and ODF-S. All the issues were related to the ODF-centric approach of SBM that focussed only on toilet coverage. The technical problems concerned the quality of construction and types of toilets. Twin leach […]
Online since: 22.10.2018
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UNICEF Nigeria (2008) Trainers Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Promotion Manual
This step-by-step manual is designed to help personnel involved in the implementation of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) activities improve their knowledge and skills to facilitate community engagement processes. The principal aim of this manual is to enable practitioners and facilitators/trainers involved in hygiene promotion to adapt innovative methods in learning, planning with groups and working with communities. The manual is not written on stone, […]
Online since: 03.05.2018
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German WASH Network (2018) Cash & Markets Learning Event Event Report
The use of cash has undergone significant changes at the field level with the uptake of mulit‐purpose‐cash grants (MPGs). In particular the formation of diverse technical cash working groups (CWGs) raises questions around how the clusters and its partners can provide technical and strategic support to the use of cash modalities in humanitarian response and what structures are needed to facilitate these outcomes. In early […]
Online since: 30.04.2018
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SuSanA (2022) Welcome package for SuSanA partners and members and uploading guides
This document will show you everything you need to know about the SuSanA platform and all the resources that it offers including: - The SuSanA partner profiles, - Discussion forum - Working groups - Social media - Thematic Discussions - Hosting of SuSanA events - Online library - SuSanA newsmail In the file download section below you will find: - The Welcome Package for new SuSanA partners (last updated in June 2022) - SuSanA […]
Online since: 10.06.2016
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