The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance – Towards More Sustainable Sanitation Solutions

Monday 18 August
Evening Side Event

Convenors: Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA)

Co-convenors: Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag/Sandec), German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Indian Water Works Association (IWWA), International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Japan Water Forum (JWF), Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat)

Event Summary and Conclusions

The convenor for this side event was the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA), and the aim of this 1.5 hour event was to entice interested parties to become active in this network (currently nearly 100 partner organisations). Elisabeth von Münch, from the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), gave an introduction to the SuSanA, and highlighted the importance of the upgraded website (www.susana.org) which is set up so that registered members can upload files, and therefore easily share knowledge with others in the network. Madeleine Fogde (SEI) presented some products of the working group “capacity development for sustainable sanitation” (e.g. a DVD with capacity development material). One of these products is the Google Earth based map of sanitation projects worldwide, which was presented by Noriko Yamaguchi (Japan Water Forum). With this interactive tool, registered users can add information about their own sustainable sanitation projects (www.sanimap.net). Results from the working groups on “food security and productive sanitation systems” and “sustainable sanitation for cities” were presented by Robert Gensch (CIM Philippines) and Christoph Lüthi (EAWAG/SANDEC). After the presentations there were many questions from the audience of about 50 people which were answered mostly by Roland Schertenleib (EAWAG/SANDEC). For example the question arose how quality control would be managed for the material which is uploaded to the website.

Side Event Programme      17:15-19:00        Room K21

Chair:               Roland Schertenleib – EAWAG
Co-Chair:         Mr. Andre Dzikus – UN-Habitat