SuSanA’s Finances & Funding • Contributions by partners and members include time and human resources, hosting and sponsorship of meetings, travel costs and publications.
• The BMZ (German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development) has tasked GIZ to run the SuSanA secretariat since 2007.
• The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has supported shutterstock by Graphic the SuSanA Forum through a grant to SuSanA partner Stockholm Environment Institute since 2012 and SFD- portal development via a grant to SuSanA partner GIZ What is SuSanA? since 2014. • The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) is an open network whose partners are dedicated to advancing sustainable sanitation systems.
• The overall goal of the SuSanA is to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by promoting a systems approach to sanitation provision taking in consideration all aspects of sustainability. Sustainable Sanitation • SuSanA has more than 6,500 individual members and 270 partner organisations (as of April 2016) for a better life – NGOs, private companies, multilateral organisa- www.susana.org 19th SuSanA Meeting in Dakar, Senegal. Photo by F. Luedemann tions, government agencies and research institutions.
• SuSanA members develop, accelerate and exchange Contact Us! innovations. SuSanA has contributed e.g. as digital Please visit us at www.susana.org home or a sounding board to innovative quality Send questions and comments to [email protected] publications and products such as the SFDs (Excreta Subscribe to our quarterly News Mail Flow Diagrams) and the Compendium of Sanitation Follow us on Twitter @susana_org Systems and Technologies (Eawag, 2014). Subscribe to our Facebook and Flickr-groups • Participation in SuSanA is free and open to all who are interested in sustainable sanitation. Publisher: SuSanA: [email protected] Design: [email protected] Date: June 2016 Join us at www.susana.org
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Find information about the work The goal of the Forum is to make knowledge, ideas, and of others and present yourself debates around sustainable sanitation accessible to to one of the largest communi- everyone within the network and beyond. You may sub- ties in sanitation: scribe and post via email to [email protected].
Global Handwashing Day 2008, Philippines. Photo by R.Gensch • SuSanA Partner Profiles Collaborative work: • Project Database • Working Group Wiki Check it out today: www.forum.susana.org • SFD Portal Exchange, discuss, ask What is sustainable sanitation? Partner Profiles Watch, See and Recap: questions and share Sanitation systems protect and promote human health • Sanitation Images on Flickr knowledge: Edited by SuSanA partners themselves, profiles by providing a clean environment that break the cycle • Videos on YouTube Channel • Online Discussion Forum present SuSanA partner organisations, their sani- of disease. A sustainable sanitation system has to: • Conference Documentation • SuSanA Webinars tation-related work and projects to an unparalleled community of experts. • Promote health and hygiene effectively • Thematic Discussion Learn more from a selection of Series (TDS) • Be financially and economically viable quality-checked publications: • Be socially acceptable and institutionally appropriate • Sustainable Sanitation Library • Use appropriate technology, including operations Library: SuSanA’s collection of more than 2000 high- and maintenance Regional Focus: quality publications include reports, case studies and • Protect the environment and natural resources • SuSanA India and Middle technical manuals on topics in sustainable sanitation. East Regional Chapters
SuSanA Working Group Wiki: The Wiki is an open SuSanA’s 12 working groups. platform where SuSanA members generate and 1. Capacity Development compile knowledge and work on joint publications. 2. Market Development 3. Renewable Energies & Climate Change Graphic: adapted from BMGF, 2015 4. Sanitation Systems, Hygiene and Health Conferences and SuSanA Meetings: The SuSanA 5. Productive Sanitation and Food Security platform offers an online space to livestream and 6. Cities document proceedings of national and international Our Knowledge Hub: www.susana.org 7. Community & Rural & Schools conferences. SuSanA’s online knowledge hub provides resources on 8. Emergency and Reconstruction Situations 6 Thematic Discussion Series (TDS) sustainable sanitation topics. The platform allows you to 9. Public Awareness, Advocacy & Civil Society Engagement Focused online discussions of ’hot topics’ led by share your knowledge and activities, to ask questions, 10. Operation and Maintenance sanitation experts or interested members. to discuss challenges and opportunities and to work 11. Groundwater Protection The regular discussion summaries are improving collaboratively. 12. WASH and Nutrition knowledge management.