The SuSanA secretariat is run by the Sustainable Sanitation Programme, Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Germany, and has been funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) since 2007. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has provided co-funding to SuSanA since 2012 through Stockholm Environment Institute for various knowledge-management activities. Additionally, several partners contribute in kind to steer regional chapters, organise SuSanA meetings and other events, and to work on joint publications by SuSanA partners.

No, SuSanA cannot provide funding for projects or researchers. Some of SuSanA´s partners might have funds available for researchers, students, interns or activities. Visit their websites or use the SuSanA Discussion Forum to look for funding opportunities e.g. calls for proposals, tenders, applications and expressions of interest (projects and awards).
Sponsorships for individuals by some SuSanA partners are posted in the Discussion Forum.

No, SuSanA does not offer consultancy services. Some SuSanA partners and members do offer these services, and could be approached directly. You can find SuSanA partners in your country here

No, SuSanA itself is not an employer. Those working for the Secretariat are employees of GIZ. Organisations often post their job vacancies on the Discussion Forum.

Individuals can become SuSanA members by registering at the website. Members can post on the Discussion Forum, participate in working group activities, receive Discussion Forum e-mail digests, news and information from SuSanA, and participate in SuSanA meetings.
Organisations working in areas related to sustainable sanitation can become SuSanA partners. Applications to become a SuSanA partner can be submitted by a SuSanA member working for the organisation. Criteria for partner applications can be viewed here.
There is no fee to become a SuSanA member or partner.

Under no circumstances will user information be shared with third parties, as confirmed in our privacy policy found here.  Based on "user preferences," registered members are automatically added to working group email lists  (without the address being visible to others). Anyone wishing to contact a member regarding a Discussion Forum post can do so without the email address being visible.

Partner organisations in a given region can initiate, fund and steer a regional chapter after the approval of the SuSanA secretariat and the core group (SuSanA’s governing body). The SuSana secretariat will provide support, but not funding, for regional meetings. Regional chapters have a chapter coordinator and establish targets and timeframes for activities.

The SuSanA website is a platform for sharing knowledge and ideas on sustainable sanitation. It includes a comprehensive Knowledge Hub consisting of a sanitation library, global project database, conference materials, information on sanitation events, audiovisual products and several integrated content from our partners. It also hosts one of the biggest discussion forums on sanitation-related topics, along with mini-sites for 13 SuSanA working groups and their activities.  Thematic discussions are conducted on the forum from time to time.

The Forum is also a professional platform and a meeting point for all SuSanA members, coming from diverse backgrounds.  

You can suggest publications, videos and conference materials for inclusion on the website by sending files or links to info@susana.org. We will assess your suggestion to see if it fits the requirements of the SuSanA library in terms of topic and quality.

If you work for a SuSanA partner organisation you can enter new projects and publications directly via your SuSanA user account. The projects and publications will be listed under your organisation’s partner profile and in the SuSanA Library. To upgrade your SuSanA login for this purpose you need to contact info@susana.org.

We are happy to post information about upcoming sanitation-related events. Please send details to info@susana.org. You can also announce an upcoming event on the SuSanA Discussion Forum.

In the future, SuSanA members and partners will also be able to add events to a new Sanitation Calendar. The Sanitation Calendar is being jointly developed by SuSanA and the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC). We hope to have it up and running by July 2018.

We believe it is important to provide the public with accurate, up-to-date information about water, sanitation and hygiene topics. Wikipedia is one of the most frequently consulted sources of information that is easy to understand.

The sanitation-related content on Wikipedia is getting better and better all the time thanks to SuSanA members and other volunteers behind the Sanitation Wikipedia project. If you would like to contribute your time to this project, please contact us at wikipedia@susana.org or here on the SuSanA Forum.

The content (text) of the SuSanA website and the photos that are uploaded in Flickr are available under an open access license (CC-BY SA 4.0). The publications that are within the SuSanA library and the videos in our YouTube channel are free to download and view but have a range of licenses. Please check the license statement of the respective library publication and video carefully before making use of them. Either way, you should always acknowledge and cite the sources when you use any of the materials.

No, the SuSanA website does not host paid advertising. 

Please write to info@susana.org to report broken links, incorrect information or other problems with the website. General feedback on the online tools and services that SuSanA offers is also welcome.

SuSanA members can share information about products and services related to sanitation on the SuSanA Forum, as long as it is part of a productive dialogue with other SuSanA members. The Forum moderator will adjudicate.