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SuSanA is now five years old and still going strong!
30.01.2012

The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) celebrates this week its 5th anniversary since its formation at the kick-off meeting in Eschborn, Germany on 29 January 2007. Looking back we can all be proud of what we have achieved together. Therefore the SuSanA secretariat wants to take this opportunity to thank everybody for their cooperation, dedication, support and interest to work as a network on a common vision of sustainable sanitation.
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New issue of SSP journal: Ten years EcoSan Club
30.01.2012
Cover - Issue 10The EcoSan Club Austria was founded on 20.02.2002 and is therefore celebrating its 10 year anniversary in 2012. Issue 10 of Sustainable Sanitation Practice (SSP) is therefore devoted to „10 Years EcoSan Club“.

The issue comprises 3 articles which:
1. tell the story behind EcoSan Club,
2. revisit implementation projects that EcoSan Club has been carried out during the last decade, and
3. summarize awareness raising activities of EcoSan Club.
 
Open funding: European Commission calls for sanitation and hygiene proposals
13.01.2012
EuropeAid is calling for proposals to be funded under its Promotion of the Millennium Development goals: Sanitation in poor peri-urban and urban areas in ACP countries programme. Proposals are welcome until 31 January 2012. The areas covered include Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Geographical Zone. The EuropeAid project budget is Euro 14,000,000.
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SuSanA newsmail January 2012 online
09.01.2012
Dear SuSanA members and partners,

This monthly e-mail informs you about the latest news from SuSanA and the SuSanA partners. For more frequent news updates please visit our facebook page: (www.facebook.com/susana.org) or check the SuSanA discusssion forum (www.forum.susana.org). This e-mail is sent to 2377 subscribers of the SuSanA mailing list and contains the following topics:
  1. Milestone: The SuSanA factsheet book is now available
  2. Multilingual: SuSanA Library now provides documents in more languages
  3. More logically structured: The SuSanA library has been restructured
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Call for solutions for water and sanitation in slums
04.01.2012

Projection network and its partners wish to bring forward the topic of slums within the 6th World Water Forum. With the project "From planet of slum to plant of solutions" a sample of informal settlements will be recreated on 300 m2 exhibition space where existing and currently researched field solutions for water and sanitation issues in slums shall be displayed. Deadline for proposals for contributions to this projects is 15 January 2012.

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EcoSan Club Austria is celebrating its 10th anniversary
03.01.2012
EcoSan Club Austria is celebrating its 10 year anniversary in 2012. In the course of events for the anniversary on 31 January 2012, the EcoSan Club is organising "Shit Happens 12" on "Sustainable implementation of water and sanitation project in Africa and Europe - experiences from the last 10 years"
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SuSanA Factsheet book now available
23.12.2011
SuSanA factsheet book comprises of 13 factsheets and should be seen as a starting point for further discussions and further work. These factsheets are useful for decision makers, planners, researchers, engineers and the interested public.
 
Debates on the discussion forum – Biweekly digest
23.12.2011
This discussion forum digest helps to keep you up to date with the lively debates on the SuSanA discussion forum. Some of last week's most discussed topics on www.forum.susana.org were:
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Entries for the WASH Media Awards accepted until April 1st 2012
16.12.2011
The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) and the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) welcome entries for the fourth edition of the WASH Media Awards. This competition is open to journalists who publish or broadcast original investigative stories and reports on water supply, sanitation or hygiene (WASH) related issues and their impact on individual and country development.
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Twenty PhD positions available on pro-poor sanitation innovations
09.12.2011
Twenty PhD Positions are available in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Funded Project on Pro-poor Sanitation Innovations, named "Stimulating local innovation on sanitation for the urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia".
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