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ECO-Asia promotion grants |
 The ECO-Asia program, a regional environmental program funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development and based in Bangkok, has released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for Grants for Promoting Access to Urban Water and Sanitation Services. The grants program will support the use of ECO-Asia's newly developed 10-Step Promotion Program Toolkit, to increase or improve water and sanitation services in Asian cities.
All private organizations, NGOs and academic institutions working in countries eligible for USAID assistance may apply. The maximum amount for an individual grant is US$10,000. For more information on the grant process please visit http://www.waterlinks.org/promotion/rfp or download RFP here http://tinyurl.com/yk4luru. If you have any other questions about the grant process itself please contact
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The website of the BMBF research project SanitaryRecycling Eschborn located in GTZ’s headquarters went online.
http://www.saniresch.de/en
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The school San Christopherus in Lima, Peru has an ecological sanitation (ecosan) system with urine diversion dehydration toilets. The wastewater will be treated and reused for irrigation, as well as the urine and the feaces are reused as fertiliser and soil conditioner in the school garden. The video is in spanish.
Ecosan in a school in Peru
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SuSanA on Twitter. Follow us! |
Twitter is free microblogging service to keep you in touch with SuSanA to answer the question:
What’s new on SuSanA?
With up to 140 characters, we will inform you about conferences, meetings, latest news and information from our partner organisations worldwide.
Take advantage of the SuSanA network and keep us informed through Twitter – we will follow your Tweet as well.
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New publication by GTZ: “Technology Review on Urine diversion components” |
December 18, 2009 by GTZ
GTZ has published a new booklet entitled:
“Technology review on urine diversion components - Overview of urine diversion components such as waterless urinals, urine diversion toilets, urine storage and reuse systems”.
This new publication is an important contribution of the GTZ program “Sustainable sanitation – ecosan” as it brings together scattered knowledge around the topic of urine diversion in a concise manner (this GTZ program is commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)).
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New videos are available online |
We proudly present you new videos of our partners.
Check out our video section:
Click here for the videos
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Presentations from SuSanA events in Nov/Dec are now online |
The presentations from the SuSanA Special Seminar and side events at the Africa Water Week in Johannesburg (8 Nov), 1st IWA Development Congress (16 Nov) and World Toilet Summit (2 Dec) are now available online.
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Governance in Urban Sanitation e-learning course (UNITAR) |
The Local Development Programme of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is launching the 4th session of its proven e-learning course Governance in Urban Sanitation.
The course, which will run from 12 April to 18 June 2010, aims to enhance the capacity of local decision-makers and sanitation professionals to make the most enlightened decisions and investments in the area of urban sanitation. It provides analytical tools to understand the financial and institutional framework of the sanitation sector, taking into account the needs of urban poor communities.
The course is open to decision-makers from local governments as well as representatives of service providers (national governments, private sector, NGOs) and international organizations involved in the sanitation sector worldwide. It is advisable to have prior basic knowledge of urban sanitation and/or urban environmental issues.
For detailed information, consult the course flyer attached (PDF).
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Management Courses for NGO Staff |
 NGO Management School Geneva, Switzerland:
February - May 2010 Management Courses for NGO Staff
Courses are for practitioners and address challenges faced by non-profit managers, leaders, and staff. These training courses help sharpening key skills and developing strategies that participants can immediately use in their work.
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11th SuSanA meeting in Rio |
We would like to invite you to participate in the 11th SuSanA meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The meeting will be hosted by the UN Habitat, ABES/AIDIS, SEI and GTZ.
Date: 19th to 21st March 2010
Venue: University Bennett (Instituto Metodista Bennett), Rua Marquês de Abrantes, 55 – Flamengo, CEP: 22230-060 - Rio de Janeiro www.bennett.com.br
Directions : Close to Train station Flamengo. Click here for more information or Download map
Hotel accomodation : Rooms are available at Hotel Novo Mundo, Hotel Windsor Guanabara, Augusto Paysandu, Hotel Argentina and Brothers Hostel. Participants have to pay for their own accomodation.
Day 1 (Friday): Presentations from various projects from the Latin American region.
Day 2 (Saturday): Along with the working group meetings, the main SuSanA meeting in a joint plenary will take place. Besides an overview on the SuSanA products (vision documents, Fact sheets, etc.), the working groups will present the progress so far.
Day 3 (Sunday): Further working groups presentations followed by discussion on the current state, future steps of the SuSanA alliance and the plans of the next meeting in 2011.
Agenda
Download the draft agenda of the 11th SuSanA meeting
Download the draft agenda of the SuSanA side event Latinosan 2010
Download draft agenda for SuSanA - UN HABITAT Dialogue at WUF-5
Registration
Link to registration
Sponsorship application
A limited number of scholarships are available for participants from Latin American region who can make important contributions to one or more of the working groups. Women applicants from Latin America are escpecially encouraged to apply.
The deadline for receiving application is 28th Feb 2010. Please email the application to
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Download application form
Download cost estimate file
Visa information
Click here for more information
Health information
Click here for more information.There are often cases of Dengue fever and no vaccine is available at this time. So insect protection measures are strongly advised. |
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CLI training course “Working with Stakeholder Dialogues” |
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 The Collective Leadership Institute offers the training course “Working with Stakeholder Dialogues” from 16th to 19th February, 2010, in Siem Reap/Cambodia. The course is a skills development program for those who host, initiate and facilitate stakeholder engagement processes.
The upcoming course dates are
16th to 19th February, 2010, in Siem Reap/Cambodia
20thto 23rd April in Cape Town/South Africa
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One-Day Training on Operation & Maintenance of DEWATS |
 The Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination (CDD) Society is a non-profit organisation working in the field of decentralised basic needs services across India. CDD Society aims to create a knowledge base for up-scaling these services through its capacity building approach.
We are happy to announce that we are conducting a day long training on regular Operation and Maintenance (O&M) of DEWATS on Friday, 5th March 2010 in Bangalore. The training emphasises on the fact that a DEWATS unit can perform well only if regular and proper maintenance is carried out.
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15th Int’l African Water & Sanitation Exhibition and Congress, Uganda |
THE 15th INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN WATER AND SANITATION EXHIBITION AND CONGRESS, From 15th to 18th March 2010.
WEBSITE : http://www.aae-event.com
EXHIBITION PLACE: Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort, P.O.Box 3673, Kampala , Uganda
Located on the shores of Lake Victoria, Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort guests enjoy the unique atmosphere of cultural and sporting activities at its back door. Conveniently located at 12 km from the Capital City of Uganda, Kampala.
THEMA: What perspectives for energy stakes and climatic change ?
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Education in sustainable sanitation in Norway |
The education possibilities of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in 2010:
Traditional summer course in sustainable sanitation - decentralized, natural and ecological wastewater treatment
This course will provide you an overview over the field of ecological sanitation and also give capacity to design and implement smaller natural and source separating sanitary systems. Application deadline for the summer course is March 1 2010.
New MSc program in water sanitation and health
This is for those who are looking for a more comprehensive education in the field of water and sanitation.. Application deadline for this study year will be February 1. 2010.
I am writing to inform you about our education possibilities in 2010. In June we will have our traditional summer course in sustainable sanitation - decentralized, natural and ecological wastewater treatment
The website www.ecosan.no will provide more information on course content, lectures, costs and application process.
Contact:
Professor Dr. Petter D. Jenssen
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
P.O. Box 5003
N-1432 Ås, Norway
email:
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web: www.ecosan.no
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Join the World’s Longest Toilet Queue on World Water Day 2009 |
 The World’s Longest Toilet Queue is a mass mobilisation event and Guinness World Record attempt bringing together thousands of campaigners on World Water Day, 22 March 2010.
The campaigners are demanding that governments act to solve the global sanitation and water crisis, one month before the first High-Level Meeting on Sanitation and Water in Washington DC on 22 April 2010. The meeting is being held as part of the Global Framework for Action on Sanitation and Water – an international platform recently established to turn political commitments into action.
This global campaign event is organised by End Water Poverty, the Freshwater Action Network (FAN) and the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC).
For more information, campaign resource and to sign up to the event go to the World’s Longest Toilet Queue web site. |
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Senior Program Officer at Bill Melinda Gates Foundation |
Position: Title Senior Program Officer - Sanitation Technologies and Tools
Division: Global Development Program
Department: Special Initiatives
Location: Seattle
Responsibilities: The Senior Program Officer (SPO) will play a pivotal leadership role in the WS&H initiative, taking primary responsibility for developing, executing and managing a portfolio of high-impact grants with the goal of developing new technologies and tools that significantly improve sustainable sanitation service delivery in urban areas, particularly those that do not use sewers. This includes developing scalable service delivery models and technologies for latrine design, pit emptying, sludge treatment and reuse or disposal of waste. Reporting to the Deputy Director leading the WS&H initiative, the SPO will also contribute to developing the WS&H strategy, enhancing external and internal relationships, improving team effectiveness, and supervising Program Officers and other staff.
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SPLASH is the name of European Research Area Network (ERA-NET) on water research for development. It is a consortium of 16 ministries, funding agencies and national research and technological development authorities from 11 European countries. As one of its activities, SPLASH will launch a research call on 1st March, 2010. The overall call budget will be at least 1.9 Mio Euro. The major objective of the SPLASH research call is to contribute to the understanding and implementation at scale of sustainable sanitation service chains in low-income urban areas in Sub-Saharan Africa. Each research consortium applying in the call must consist of a minimum of 3 independent legal entities. At least 2 consortium partners must be from one or more African countries and at least 1 consortium partner must be from an European country.