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WSP-workshop in Stockholm: "Scaling Up Rural Sanitation: What Works!"

The Water and Sanitation Program is organizing a workshop in Stockholm at the World Water Week in Stockholm 2010 about Upscaling Rural Sanitation.
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Call for Papers now available for 35th WEDC International Conference

In celebration of the fortieth anniversary of WEDC in 2011, the 35th WEDC International Conference will be held at Loughborough University, UK, from 6th to 8th July 2011.
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Grand Challenge: Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies

Submit an original and innovative idea in 2-page proposal for a decentralised, non-waterborne sanitation technology and get a chance to win US$ 100,000 to develop the idea further.
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Proyectos de investigación cooperativa en Sub-Sahra-África

Convocatoria de propuestas para becas universitarias Africanas Junior de investigación y entrenamiento en ciencias Ingenieriles.
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El acceso al agua y al saneamiento es un derecho humano

El día 28 de Julio del 2010, la Asamblea general declara que el acceso al agua limpia y el saneamiento son derechos humanos.
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Results & main achievement of "ROSA project" available now

Issue 4 of the "Sustainable Sanitation Practice (SSP)" - Journal is now available (click here).
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Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) - Kamal Kar´s presentation on Water and Sanitation

CLTS is an innovative methodology for mobilising communities to completely eliminate open defecation. Communities are facilitated to conduct their own appraisal and analysis of open defecation and take their own action to become ODF (open defecation free).
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Code Council and ASPE Present First U.S. World Toilet Summit

PORT WASHINGTON, NY, 6 July, 2010 - After nearly a decade of hosting their annual World Toilet Summit (WTS) mainly in Asia, the World Toilet Organization (WTO) has instead opted to hold it in the United States for the first time. The 2010 International Code Council World Toilet Summit will be presented by the Code Council and hosted by the American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE) during this year’s ASPE Convention and Engineered Plumbing Exposition to be held October 30 – November 3 in Philadelphia.

Roundtable Discussion on an Advance Market Commitment (AMC) for Sanitation

Roundtable Discussion on an Advance Market Commitment (AMC) for Sanitation, June 17th 2010: DFID, London, UK

A SuSanA representative was invited by Dr Sue Cavill (Consultant, Water and Sanitation Team, DFID) to attend this roundtable discussion. This role was then kindly taken up by Johannes Heeb, a member of the steering committee of the SuSanA, who travelled from Switzerland to London.

To see the results of the discussion, click here.

SuSanA news mail (June 2010)

This text has been sent to SuSanA partner organisations, working group members and mailing list subscribers per mail in June:

Dear SuSanA partners and members,

This mail contains information on the following four topics and is sent to the 1,440 subscribers of the SuSanA mailing list (on a monthly basis):

1. Minutes of SuSanA core group meeting held on 25 May 2010
2. Feedback on Multi-stakeholder Meeting of UN-Water on 10-11 June in Geneva
3. 12th SuSanA meeting will be in Stockholm on 3–4 September 2010
4. New video clip about SuSanA released

>>click here to download this mail as PDF

>>click here to download the feedback regarding “UN Multi-Stakeholder Taskforce meeting on Wastewater and Water Quality”, 10-11 June 2010, Geneva, Switzerland

>>click here to download the Minutes of the SuSanA core group skype meeting

Result of the „Who are you?“ survey

From May 17 to June 7 2010 was a survey conducted on the website of SuSanA to learn more about the users of SuSanA. 9 options were given to answer the question “Who are you?”. The survey was placed on the starting page of SuSanA and promoted on Facebook.
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German weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT about PeePoo

The important German weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT just published a well-written article about Peepoo bags, making also a cross-reference to SuSanA and trials in Bangladesh (in German).

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Kompostierbare Tüten sollen Hygieneprobleme lösen und Krankheiten vermeiden.

>> Read the original article

Word Water Week - 2nd Announcement and Call for Registration

The World Water Week in Stockholm is now releasing its 2nd Announcement and Call for Registration. It provides detailed information about seminars, sessions, side events along with practical information to help attendees and convenors make the most of their participation.

>>click here to download the 2nd Announcement

Registration for the 2010 World Water Week in Stockholm is now open. Register online at the World Water Week website. Discounted registration runs until June 30.

>>click here for online registration

World Bank – Water, sanitation and children’s health: evidence from DHS surveys

This paper combines 172 Demography and Health Survey data sets from 70 countries to estimate the effect of water and sanitation on child mortality and morbidity. The results show a robust association between access to water and sanitation technologies and both child morbidity and child mortality. The point estimates imply, depending on the technology level and the sub-region chosen, that water and sanitation infrastructure lowers the odds of children to suffering from diarrhea by 7-17 percent, and reduces the mortality risk for children under the age of five by about 5-20 percent.
The effects seem largest for modern sanitation technologies and least significant for basic water supply.

World Bank – Water, sanitation and children’s health: evidence from DHS surveys (PDF; 0.6 MB)

SuSanA news mail (May 2010)

This text has been sent to SuSanA partner organisations, working group members and mailing list subscribers per mail in May:

Dear SuSanA partners and members,

This mail contains information on the following five topics and is sent out to the 1,406 subscribers of the SuSanA mailing list (roughly on a monthly basis):

1. New video footage on sustainable sanitation projects
2. Twelve new case studies from ROSA project in East Africa (EU-funded)
3. Next SuSanA meeting during the World Water Week in Stockholm this September
4. Join SuSanA on facebook and become fan number 373!
5. Recent entries and improvements on SuSanA website

Call to Action on WASH in Schools

UNICEF, WHO, Water Advocates, Water For People, IRC, Emory University, Save The children, CARE, Water Aid and Dubai Cares as well as several other international partners are collaborating on a global campaign called “ Call to Action on WASH in Schools”. Experts from those agencies worked on a publication named “Raising Clean hands : Advancing health, learning and participation through WASH in Schools”. An advocacy and communication pack has been also developed for use at various levels. The Call to Action for WASH in Schools targets primarily global policy and decision makers in the education,health and water sector, worldwide press, corporations and foundations to promote the message that it is time to act to equip all schools with WASH in Schools facilities. Call to Action for WASH in Schools was launched on 6th of April at DIHAD (Dubai Humanitarian Aid Development Conference) in Dubai. It is important to identify key national, regional and global events to tap in for the Call to Action for WASH in Schools advocacy. Therefore we are asking partners to explore events planned for 2010 and advocate for creating a space for WASH in Schools. Partners who would like to join at the Call to Action for WASH in schools are welcome to visit www.washinschools.com or www.unicef.org/wash/school website for further information.

Release: "Sustainable Sanitation Practice - Use of Urine" by EcoSan Club

The free journal "Sustainable Sanitation Practice" (SSP) is published quarterly by the non profit organisation EcoSan Club.

Sustainable Sanitation Practice - Issue 3

With the journal EcoSan Club tries to make available high quality information on practical experiences with available sustainable sanitation systems. SSP should fill a gap that they have identified in the last few years in which sustainable sanitation has become an important issue that is discussed among many disciplines. For SSP a sanitation system is sustainable when it is not only economically viable, socially acceptable and technically and institutionally appropriate, but it should also protect the environment and the natural resources.

SuSanA news mail (March 2010)

This text has been sent to SuSanA partner organisations, working group members and mailing list subscribers per mail on April 1.

Dear SuSanA partners, members and mailing list subscribers,

This mail contains following content:

1. Sneak preview of the 11th SuSanA meeting in Rio (using web 2.0 tools)
2. SuSanA website improvements; newsletters, job offers and publications
3. Announcement for WASH United campaign
4. Changes in the SuSanA – ecosan team
5. SuSanA Facebook fan page now 250 fans

SuSanA on Facebook

SuSanA invites you to become a fan of SuSanA on Facebook.

The SuSanA secretary will use Facebook to inform you about news on SuSanA, the website and events, but Facebook gives also you the chance to communicate in a different way with SuSanA and all people who are interested in sustainable sanitation.

Discuss, share information, photos or videos or just leave a comment on the wall. You are welcome!

SuSanA on Facebook

SPLASH launches a research call

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.

The call pre-announcement is now available under http://splash-era.net/sanitation-call/index.php.

The call applicant's guide and templates for submitting concept notes will be available on the SPLASH website from March 1, 2010.

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 Esta dirección electrónica esta protegida contra spambots. Es necesario activar Javascript para visualizarla .

SANIRESCH went online

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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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.

Follow SuSanA on

http://twitter.com/2010susana

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)).

New videos are available online

We proudly present you new videos of our partners.

Check out our video section:
Click here for the videos

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.

http://www.susana.org/lang-en/meetings/side-events

Internship (m/f) GTZ program “Sustainable sanitation – ecosan” in Germany

The GTZ program “Sustainable sanitation – ecosan” has an open vacancy for an internship in Eschborn, Germany. Note: the vacancy is open for international students presently studying at a university in Germany.
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Oportunidad de trabajo en Ghana en el IWMI

Beca Postdoctoral- Microeconomía de Saneamiento y Reutilización de agua residual en el Instituto Internacional de Gestión de Agua para la Agricultura (IWMI) en Ghana.
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Blog on WASH vacancies

This blog provides an updated list of vacancies in the WASH sector.

>>Click here to access the blog.

Job section of WaterSanitationHygiene.org

This forum provides a section with vacancies in the WASH sector.

>>Click here to access the forum.

Posición CIM de Saneamiento Sostenible en China

En sociedad con la Alianza de Agua Limpia (CWA), el Centro para la Migración Internacional y Desarrollo (CIM) abrió una vacante para un profesional en gestión de saneamiento sostenible en Beijing. La vacante se abrió para ciudadanos europeos con buen dominio del lenguaje alemán. Hasta hoy no existe fecha límite para recibir aplicaciones. Estas pueden llevarse a cabo por el portal en línea CIM.

IRC positions in the WASH sector

IRC is currently recruiting for various positions to support the organisation in its operations and programmatic work in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and integrated water resource management (IWRM).
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Senior Water & Sanitation Specialist at RTI International USA

The position is part of the Water and Environment for Development program within RTI’s International Development Group and may be based either at RTI International’s headquarters in Research Triangle Park, NC or in the company’s Washington, DC office.

>>click here for further information

Civil/Environmental Engineer at the Helmholz Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ)

The Department of Environmental and Biotechnology Centre (UBZ) is seeking a candidate for the position of: Civil / Environmental Engineer

The focus of the position will be on the development and implementation of decentralised wastewater treatment and reuse systems for rural and peri-urban communities in Jordan as part of a large Integrated Water Resource Management project.

PDF dokument of the job announcement

Sanitation updates

This blog/news feed provides frequent updates on sanitation. It is maintained by the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and by USAID’s Environmental Health knowledge management activity and the Hygiene Improvement Project. Originally it was set up to promote the 2008 International Year of Sanitation and continues to provide news, information and resources in support of achieving the goal of sanitation for all.The case studies collection comprises project experiences from all over the world. You can find examples from different locations (rual or urban), technologies (low or high tech), cultural settings and type of projects (pilot or large scale).

sanitationupdates.wordpress.com/

Duncan Mara's Sanitation blog

This is the SANITATION blog from Duncan Mara with around 200 entries on various sanitation related aspects. Duncan Mara is a professor of civil engineering at the University of Leeds in England currently. He has been working on low-cost sanitation in developing countries since the mid-1970s, and also on low-cost wastewater treatment and reuse.

duncanmarasanitation.blogspot.com/

Saniblog

Saniblog started off as an open blog in November 2007 to celebrate the International Year of Sanitation in 2008. The initial motivation was to have a platform for sanitation-related news as there were no other blogs covering this special topic way back in 2007.

saniblog.org/

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