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Lennon, S. (2011). Fear and anger: Perceptions of risks related to sexual violence against women linked to water and sanitation in Delhi, India - Briefing Note. SHARE (Sanitation and Hygiene Applied Research for Equity) and WaterAid, UK. [609.94 KB]

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The link between a lack of access to water and sanitation facilities and sexual violence against women is not well known and to date has received insufficient attention. This …

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BMGF (2011). Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Strategy Overview. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, USA. [1.75 MB]

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This is an overview of the strategy of the BMGF Water, Sanitation & Hygiene program. …

Uploaded on 26 Dec 2012 • Views: 369 • Downloads: 14

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von Münch, E., Ingle, R. (eds.) (2012). Compilation of 25 case studies on sustainable sanitation projects from Africa. Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Germany. [15.29 MB]

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The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) publishes case studies of sustainable sanitation projects from around the world to demonstrate the wide range of available technologies …

Uploaded on 1 Nov 2012 • Views: 1941 • Downloads: 445

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von Münch, E., Schröder, E. (eds.) (2012). Sanitation activities of GIZ and partners in eight countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: Factsheet compilation (draft) - An output of the sanitation working group in the Fachverbund SOWAS - Services on Water and Sanitation. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Eschborn, Germany. [5.79 MB]

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This is a compilation of factsheets regarding sanitation activities of GIZ and partners in eight countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The countries are Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, …

Uploaded on 24 Sep 2012 • Views: 839 • Downloads: 97

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GIZ (2012). Sanitation activities in South Sudan - Factsheet. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. [812.42 KB]

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This series of short factsheets gives an overview of the sanitation situation of eight GIZ water programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. For South Sudan the factsheet underlines the …

Uploaded on 13 Sep 2012 • Views: 560 • Downloads: 14

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SuSanA (2012). SuSanA plaquette de présentation : Aperçu général de SuSanA (in French) - SuSanA flyer: General overview of SuSanA. Sustainable Sanitation Alliance. [284.02 KB]

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Ce dépliant donne un aperçu général de SuSanA, de ses objectifs, des groupes de travail ainsi que des organisations partenaires. …

Uploaded on 20 Jun 2012 • Views: 756 • Downloads: 45

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SuSanA (2012). SuSanA Volante: Panorama general de Susana (in Spanish) - SuSanA flyer: overview of SuSanA. Sustainable Sanitation Alliance. [275.8 KB]

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Este folleto proporciona una visión general de SuSanA, sus objetivos, grupos de trabajo, así como las organizaciones asociadas. …

Uploaded on 20 Jun 2012 • Views: 722 • Downloads: 32

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SuSanA (2012). SuSanA roll-up poster - Working groups and SuSanA partners. [9.99 MB]

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The SuSanA roll-up display shows the 11 thematic working group and the SuSanA partners. The roll-up poster can be printed in large size (A1 or A0) and used for events or …

Uploaded on 15 May 2012 • Views: 1151 • Downloads: 55

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SuSanA (2012). Join SuSanA poster. [6.25 MB]

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The Join SuSanA poster highlights the benefits and opportunities of being or becoming a SuSanA member: …

Uploaded on 15 May 2012 • Views: 1201 • Downloads: 83

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DWA (2012). Do we need New Alternative Sanitation Systems in Germany?. DWA German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste, Hennef, Germany. [3.49 MB]

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New alternative sanitation systems (NASS) are based on the separate collection, conveyance, treatment and reuse of source separated flows. The aim of implementing NASS is the reuse …

Uploaded on 17 Apr 2012 • Views: 823 • Downloads: 116

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Benzian, H., Monse, B., Belizario, V., Schratz, A., Sahin, M., van Palenstein, W., Helderman, W. (2012). Public health in action: effective school health needs renewed international attention. Glob Health Action 2012, 5: 14870 - DOI: 10.3402/gha.v5i0.14870. [602.43 KB]

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School health programmes as a platform to deliver high-impact health interventions are currently underrated by decision makers and do not get adequate attention from the …

Uploaded on 8 Mar 2012 • Views: 789 • Downloads: 47

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von Münch, E., Rieck, C. (2011). Harnessing the wisdom of crowds: Open discussion forum helps to answer sanitation related questions. Appropriate Technology, Volume 38, No. 4, p. 24-26. [529.7 KB]

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We know it all too well from our daily work: E-mails have nowadays become …

Uploaded on 6 Feb 2012 • Views: 455 • Downloads: 17

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von Münch, E., Rieck, C. (2011). Utiliser la sagesse des foules : un forum de discussion ouvert aide à trouver des réponses aux questions portant sur les systèmes d’assainissement (in French) - Harnessing the wisdom of crowds: Open discussion forum helps to answer sanitation related questions. Appropriate Technology (French Edition: Technologie Appropriée), Volume 2, No. 4, p. 17-20. [316.83 KB]

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Nous ne le savons que trop bien dans notre travail de tous les jours : les …

Uploaded on 6 Feb 2012 • Views: 460 • Downloads: 16

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WSP (2007). Economics of sanitation initiative (ESI) - What are the economic costs of poor sanitation and hygiene?. World Bank, Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), USA. [1.31 MB]

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The ESI studies conduct quantitative and qualitative assessments of the impacts of poor sanitation on health, water, tourism, and other welfare impacts. The impacts stem from …

Uploaded on 2 Feb 2012 • Views: 434 • Downloads: 14

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GIZ (2012). Worldwide list of 324 documented ecosan projects by various organisations. Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Eschborn, Germany. [61.46 KB]

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This project list of ecosan projects worldwide is regularly updated by the GIZ team. With "ecosan" we mean here sustainable sanitation / ecosan projects with reuse of some or all …

Uploaded on 18 Jan 2012 • Views: 1637 • Downloads: 303

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Hutton, G., Phyrum, K., Blackett, I., Weitz, A. (2011). The economic returns of sanitation interventions in Cambodia. World Bank, Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), USA. [931.27 KB]

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Economic returns are potentially high — in excess of US$2 return per dollar invested — especially in rural areas where low-cost on-site solutions are feasible. …

Uploaded on 10 Jan 2012 • Views: 368 • Downloads: 4

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UN (2011). The Human Right to Water and Sanitation - A series of relevant documents. United Nations, New York, USA. [2.01 MB]

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A series of relevant documents on human rights to water and sanitation are listed in this download area. …

Uploaded on 18 Nov 2011 • Views: 516 • Downloads: 51

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Mijthab, M. (2011). Toilet for the urban poor in Bangladesh (moSan - mobile sanitation) - Non-infrastructure based dry-separation toilet for the urban poor in Bangladesh. Presentation given at GIZ in Eschborn, Germany. [4.22 MB]

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GIZ Bangladesh and the German industrial designer Mona Mijthab developed a non-infractructure-based separation dry toilet for the urban poor in Bangladesh. …

Uploaded on 14 Nov 2011 • Views: 924 • Downloads: 162

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SuSanA (2012). A standard set of Powerpoint slides to explain SuSanA. SuSanA Secretariat, located at GIZ, Eschborn, Germany. [11.14 MB]

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This standard set of powerpoint slides about SuSanA has been developed by the SuSanA secretariat to provide a more detailed overview of SuSanA and also so that all presenters …

Uploaded on 7 Nov 2011 • Views: 1508 • Downloads: 229

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Newborne, P. (2010). Making the case for sanitation and hygiene: opening doors in health - Background note. Overseas Development Institute, London, UK. [216.83 KB]

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Advocates of sanitation and hygiene have redoubled their efforts to raise the profile of sanitation and hygiene in development in recent years. The 2008 International Year of …

Uploaded on 31 Oct 2011 • Views: 454 • Downloads: 11

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EcoSanRes (2006). Cerrando el ciclo al saneamiento (in Spanish) - Closing the cycle on sanitation. SEI (Stockholm Environmental Institute), Sweden. [1.04 MB]

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Poster showing how the various sanitation related wastewater and waste streams are collected, tranported and productively used for agricultural purposes. …

Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 835 • Downloads: 54

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EcoSanRes (2006). Cerrando el ciclo al saneamiento (in Spanish) - Closing the cycle on sanitation. SEI (Stockholm Environmental Institute), Sweden. [1.97 MB]

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Poster showing how the nutrients flow in a dry sanitation system in a rural setup with the aim of reuse in agriculture. It shows comic-style pictures on collection, composting and …

Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 695 • Downloads: 35

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Mwaniki, S. (2011). Sanitation experts brainstorm in Kigali, Rwanda. Transworld Publishers Limited, Kenya. [1.33 MB]

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This article is part of the September-October edition of the Magazine Africa Water & Sanitation which is distributed for free in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and various other countries …

Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 710 • Downloads: 12

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Mijthab, M. (2011). moSan - mobile sanitation: Toilet for the urban poor in Bangladesh - Report in German but with many self-explanatory pictures. Bachelor Report Industrial Design, Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal (FH), Institut für Industrial Design, Germany. [5.68 MB]

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GIZ Bangladesh and the german industrial designer Mona Mijthab developed a non-infractructure-based separation dry toilet for the urban poor in Bangladesh. The toilet is part of a …

Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 993 • Downloads: 67

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von Münch, E., Ingle, R., Mbalo, D., Kappauf, L. (eds.) (2012). Compilation of 13 factsheets on key sustainable sanitation topics. Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) and GIZ, Germany. [5.25 MB]

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This factsheet book is a compilation of 13 thematic factsheets which were produced by the eleven SuSanA working groups. What makes these factsheets special is that they are …

Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 3999 • Downloads: 969

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Peter, S., Zurbrügg, C. (eds.) (2011). Sandec News 2011 - July 2011, Vol. 12. Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Dübendorf, Switzerland. [1.62 MB]

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Among others the journal contains information about: …

Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 669 • Downloads: 10

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NETWAS-U (2011). Ecological sanitation in Uganda - Inspirational success stories from the field. Network for Water and Sanitation in Uganda (NETWAS-U), Kampala, Uganda. [1.32 MB]

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These documented cases have been compiled in completion of a 15 months Ecological Sanitation Research Project implemented by Network for Water and Sanitation (NETWAS) Uganda as the …

Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 785 • Downloads: 28

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Kanyemba, A. (2011). Growing up at school - A guide to menstrual management for school girls. Water Information Network South Africa (WIN-SA) and Water Research Commission (WRC). [4.63 MB]

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This book is on menstrual management for Zimbabwean schoolgirls and describes the problems all girls face, and how to deal with them in a practical way. Several of the girls' own …

Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 1344 • Downloads: 235

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Abraham, B., Fogde, M., von Münch, E., Wendland, C. (2012). Sustainable sanitation for schools - Factsheet of Working Group 7a. Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA). [355.53 KB]

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The aims of this factsheet are to: …

Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 1262 • Downloads: 73

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Genath, B. (2010). Trinkwasser kein Vehikel für Abfalltransporte (in German) - Drinking water is no appropriate medium for waste transport. Georg Siemens Verlag. [1.01 MB]

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In German: …

Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 711 • Downloads: 6

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Mungara, C. (2008). Shame, humiliation and hazard: Tribulations of the girl child in Kenya. 33rd WEDC International Conference, Accra, Ghana (Access to sanitation and safe water: Global partnerships and local actions). [1.45 MB]

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The Author has approached her presentation as a lamentation by a girl appropriately named ‘Hope’. This lamentation involves actual experiences that were told to the author by …

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Ecosan Club (ed.) (2010). Operation and Maintenance - Successful Models for O&M of Sanitation Systems. Sustainable Sanitation Practice (SSP), Issue 2. EcoSan Club, Austria. [1.63 MB]

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The second issue of Sustainable Sanitation Practice (SSP) focuses on "Successful models for operation and maintenance of sanitation systems". …

Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 775 • Downloads: 32

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Ecosan Club (ed.) (2011). Toilets. Sustainable Sanitation Practice (SSP), Issue 6. EcoSan Club, Austria. [3.13 MB]

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With issue 6 of Sustainable Sanitation Practice (SSP) on "Toilets" an overview on developments of different technologies for user interfaces are given. However, only contributions …

Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 576 • Downloads: 20

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Ecosan Club (ed.) (2010). The ROSA project. Sustainable Sanitation Practice (SSP), Issue 4, EcoSan Club, Austria. [2.28 MB]

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During the last years EcoSan Club was partner of the ROSA project. The ROSA (Resource-Oriented Sanitation concepts for peri-urban areas in Africa) project proposed …

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Lüthi, C., Panesar, A., Schütze, T., Norström, A., McConville, J., Parkinson, J., Saywell, D., Ingle, R. (2011). Sustainable sanitation in cities: a framework for action. Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA), International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU), Papiroz Publishing House. [4 KB]

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This book was prepared by partners of the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) within working group 6 on cities and addresses sanitation as a key element of the urban …

Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 2036 • Downloads: 0

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Kuchta, H., Sarana, P. (2008). FAQs constructed wetlands. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Philippines, Bayawan City. [565.2 KB]

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The use of natural processes to remove pollutants in constructed wetlands has been extensively investigated and effectively applied in Western countries for decades. The low …

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Deutsche Bundesregierung (2008). Internationales Jahr fuer sanitäre Grundversorgung 2008 der Vereinten Nationen: Chancen und Potentiale der Sanitaerversorgung (in German) - The United Nations International Year of Sanitation 2008: Opportunities and potentials for sanitation. Antwort der Bundesregierung auf die Große Anfrage der Opposition, Drucksache 16/9387, Germany. [1.19 MB]

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Wasser- und Sanitärversorgung sind ein Schlüssel zur nachhaltigen ökono- mischen und sozialen Entwicklung. Mangelnde Fortschritte bei Wasser- und Sanitärversorgung werden …

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Eid, U. (2008). „Toilette“ darf kein Tabu mehr sein. Das „Internationale Jahr für sanitäre Grundversorgung 2008“ (in German) - Toilettes should not be a Taboo, The “International Year of Sanitation 2008”. KA Korrespondenz Abwasser, Abfall, Volume 55, Nr. 9, p. 1002. [157.5 KB]

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In the eyes of the public, sanitation is not really seen as a catalyst for human development; for many people, it is a far-fetched, a cranky, and even an unsavoury subject. As a …

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GIZ (2012). Sanitation activities in Kenya - Factsheet. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. [766.24 KB]

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This series of short factsheets gives an overview of the sanitation situation of eight GIZ water programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. For Kenya the factsheets underline the specific …

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GIZ (2012). Sanitation activities in Burkina Faso - Factsheet. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. [745.12 KB]

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This series of short factsheets gives an overview of the sanitation situation of eight GIZ water programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. For Burkina Faso the factsheets underline the …

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GIZ (2012). Sanitation activities in Benin - Factsheet. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Eschborn, Germany. [653.45 KB]

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This series of short factsheets gives an overview of the sanitation situation of eight GIZ water programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. For Benin the factsheets underline the specific …

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von Münch, E., Wirseen, C., Patel, D., Wheaton, A., Jachnow, A. (2009). Safer sanitation in slums and emergency settings with Peepoo bags - Appropriate Technology, Vol 36, No 4, p. 38. [417.79 KB]

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In most of the urban slums of countries like Kenya and Bangladesh there is a huge lack of sanitation facilities like toilets, and this leads to problems of the safe disposal of …

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SuSanA (2012). SuSanA flyer - General overview of SuSanA. SuSanA. [250.67 KB]

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This flyer gives a general overview of the SuSanA, its objectives, working groups as well as partner organisations. …

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Roose, S., Spijksma, E., van Daalen, T., Singeling, M. (2010). Smart hygiene solutions: Examples of hygiene methods & tools and tips. Netherlands Water Partnership, KIT Publishers, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. [1.14 MB]

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Approximately 120 million children are born in the developing world each year. Halve of these children will live in households without access to improved water and sanitation, …

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Rosemarin, A. (2010). Peak Phosphorus, The Next Inconvenient Truth? - 2nd International Lecture Series on Sustainable Sanitation, World Bank, Manila, October 15, 2010. [3.48 MB]

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Phosphorus, as a fertiliser, is important for the world's food production. The estimated lifetime of the reserves are ending in approx. 100 years. The demand for phosphorus is …

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Hutton, G., Haller, L., Bartram, J. (2007). Global cost-benefit analysis of water supply and sanitation interventions. World Health Organization (WHO). [483.66 KB]

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The aim of this study was to estimate the economic benefits and costs of a range of interventions to improve access to water supply and sanitation facilities in the developing …

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DWA (2010). Brauchen wir in Deutschland neuartige Sanitärsysteme? (in German) - Do we need New Alternative Sanitation Systems in Germany?. Deutsche Vereinigung für Wasserwirtschaft, Abwasser und Abfall e.V. (DWA), Germany. [3.35 MB]

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(an English version of this brochure is available here: http://www.susana.org/lang-en/library?view=ccbktypeitem&type=2&id=1522) …

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Gröber, K., McCreary, C., Kappauf, L., Panzerbieter, T., Rück, J. (2012). Public awareness raising and sanitation marketing - Factsheet of Working Group 9b. Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA). [644.94 KB]

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This factsheet highlights the importance of public awareness raising and sanitation marketing to increase the efficiency and sustainability of sanitation improvements. It provides …

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Schuen, R., Parkinson, J., Knapp, A. (2009). Study for Financial and Economic Analysis of Ecological Sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). [2.41 MB]

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The overall objective of the study was to assist decision-makers and sponsors of development programs to make informed decisions about the relative merits of different types of …

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Morgan, P. (2007). Lessons from a low cost ecological approach to sanitation in Malawi. Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). [1.08 MB]

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Low cost Ecological Sanitation programs in Malawi have led to the building of over 11,000 compost-producing toilets since 2003. While the toilets are affordable and simple to …

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SuSanA Partners
(currently 202 partners)