minutes 5th meeting of the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) Durban • February 16th and 17th 2008

venue: International Convention Centre, Durban (ICC) 45 Ordnance Road • Durban • South Africa topic and structure: On the first day (Saturday, February 16th 2008) the current state and progress of the different thematic SuSanA working groups was discussed, with emphasis on first results, proposed deliverables, terms of references and potential partners. On the second day (Sunday, February 17th 2008) an in-depth discussion on the 3 SuSanA vision documents, funding aspects, the joint database, planned UN activities during the International Year of Sanitation 2008 and other upcoming events took place. Several SuSanA working group meetings were held on Friday (February 15th 2008) and on Saturday (February 16th 2008) evening. After the official SuSanA meeting a side-event of the AfricanSan+5 (convened by SuSanA) took place on Sunday followed by the AfricaSan+5 reception, co-hosted by SuSanA. In addition a study tour to a large-scale sustainable sanitation project (eThekwini) was organised for Monday, February 18th 2008. This document follows the chronological structure of the meeting (see agenda) and summarises statements, results and commitments of the different sessions. participants (in alphabetical order): Balasubramaniam, Rashmir • Gates Berthoud, Adam • Oxfam South Africa Bhagwan, Jay • WRC Birkholtz, Wayne • Amanz’abantu Bloh, Hagen von • gtz Kenya Bracken, Patrick • Consultant Bruijne de, Gerd • Waste Buckley, Chris • Uni Kwa-Zulu Natal Castellano, David • LeAF, Waste Chonzi, Prosper • Health Dept. Harare Clemmons, Barbara • Rotary Clemmons, Charlie • Rotary Conradin, Katharina • seecon Dagerskog, Linus • SEI, CREPA Delihlazo, Otto • Amanz’abantu Dölle, Kirsten • gtz Dooley, Therese • UNICEF Drechsel, Pay • IWMI Dusingizumuremyi, Eugene • KIST Dzvairo, Bloodless • IWS Fall, Papa Abdoulaye • gtz ecosan Flores, Amparo • Uni Cambridge Fogde, Madeleine • SEI, EcoSanRes Fosso-Kankeu, Elvis • WHRI Fugl, Jens • DANIDA Gensch, Robert • gtz ecosan Goddard, Shannon • Buckman Goga, Essop • African Engineering Int. Gomez, Jui Judith • Uni Dhaka Gonga, Samuel • Devolution Trust Fund Gounden, Teddy • eThekwini Gow, Shuntelle • Rand Water Guzha, Edward • Raincosan Hänel, Mirko • TTZ Harawa, Kate • Water for People Harigobin, Shantal • DWAF

Hickling, Sophie • UNICEF Hillermann, Rudi • Kwa-Zulu Natal Gov. Holden, Richard • private Hutton, Guy • WSP/WB Islam, Khairul • Plan International Jackson, Barry • DBSA Johannessen, Ase • IWA Kabore, Basile • Municipality Burkina Faso Kariuki, Paul • Uni Kwa-Zulu Natal Kayange, Tabbie • CCODE Kfir, Rivka • WRC Klawitter, Simone • gtz Zambia Klutse, Amah • CREPA Knapp, Andreas • WSP/WB Etiopia Knight, Stephen • Uni Kwa-Zulu Natal Kullmann, Craig • WSP/WB Washington Kumar, Ajith • WSP/WB South Asia Kvarnström, Elisabeth • SEI, EcoSanRes Lebepe, Iris • DWAF Macario, Luis • WSP/WB Mozambique Machimana, Amanda • DWAF Masiza, Xolani • Ndlambe Municipality Mathenge, Penninah • Oxfam Zimbabwe Mazubane, Cyprian • DWAF Mbambisa, Galelo • DWAF Mbatha, Sandile • Uni Kwa-Zulu Natal Meulman, Brendo • Landustrie Mgwaba, Themba • Mhlathuze Water Board Milstein, Marina • DWAF Mjoli, Nozimbele • Hlathi Development Morgan, Peter • Aquamor Mosnanyana, Palesa • DBSA Mpotulo, Tamíe • DWAF Mudao, Ndishavhe Enoc • Jo-burg Water Mulenga, Jackson • Devolution Trust Fund Mutua, Benedict • Uni Egerton

Nalubega, Mai • consultant Nana, Desiree • gtz Ndlovu, Siboniso • DWAF Negussie, Amsalu • Plan International Neethling, Marcha • Plan International Noemdoe, Simone • Cap-Net, UNDP Norström, Anna • SWH Nzuza, Musa • Mhlathuze Water Board Otieno, Fred • Uni Tshwane Palazzo, Alfonso • Buckman Panesar, Arne • gtz ecosan Panzerbieter, Thilo • GTO Phiri, Patricia • CCAP Pule, Rapule • ICLEI Regelsberger, Martin • AEE INTEC Ronteltap, Mariska • UNESCO-IHE Rosemarin, Arno • SEI, EcoSanRes Rüd, Sören • gtz ecosan Salifou, Boukari • gtz Burkina Faso Sawadogo, Azad • CREPA Schmollgruber, Erich • Wettech Sherlock, Paul • UNICEF Silinyana, Aubrey • Impilo Stoll, Uwe • KfW Stravato, Laurent • IFAD Tandia, Cheick Tidiane • CREPA Terre Blanche, Riana • Izwelethu Tripathi, Satyendra • Sulabh Tshehla, Job • Anglo Coal Uno, Junko • JICA Villaluna, Rosario Aurora • SoK Vodounhessi, Anselme • CREPA Voorden, Carolien van der • WSSCC Werner, Christine • gtz Yamaguchi, Noriko • JWF Zurbrügg, Chris • Eawag/ Sandec

minutes by: Gensch, Robert: robert.gensch@gtz.de Rüd, Sören: soeren.rued@gtz.de

minutes • 5th SuSanA meeting • Durban • February 16th and 17th 2008

day 1 • session 1 • chair: Jay Bhagwan presentation of the current status of the SuSanA working groups • part I

09:10 welcoming address (Rivka Kfir • WRC)

see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-01-wrc-introduction-rivka-kfir.pdf

Rivka Kfir, CEO of the Water Research Commission (WRC) - the organisation that is hosting the SuSanA meeting in Durban together with gtz - welcomes all participants of the SuSanA meeting and gives a short introductory presentation on the work of the WRC. She highlights the role of the WRC in South Africa as a dynamic hub for water-centred knowledge, innovation and intellectual capital on national, regional and international level. The key strategic areas of the WRC are water resource management, water linked ecosystems, water use, waste management and water utilisation in agriculture. 09:30 presentation of the agenda (Christine Werner • gtz)

see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-02-agenda-christine-werner.pdf

Christine Werner welcomes all partners and new participants that have joined the meeting and gives a short presentation of the agenda. She states that the first day will be dedicated to hear reports from the different working groups and discuss the current state and further developments of the working groups. In addition time is allocated on Saturday evening for further working group meetings. On the second day the 3 SuSanA vision documents, the joint database, planned UN activities during the International Year of Sanitation (IYS) 2008 and other upcoming events will be discussed. Lastly she informs the audience about an excursion to a large scale ecological sanitation project in Durban planned for Monday. She thanked WRC for their efforts in organising this meeting and highlights the given possibility to share knowledge on sustainable sanitation with the AfricaSan+5 participants. 09:40 short introduction of participants

All participants quickly say their names and institutional affiliation. 10:00 working group 01 • capacity development for sustainable sanitation

see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-04-wg-cap-development-madeleine-fogde.pdf

en-susana-durban-presentation-03-wg-cap-development-arne-panesar.pdf Madeleine Fogde gives a brief overview on the working group activities, the current partners of the group, planned deliverables and progress within this working group. Aimed deliverables are a factsheet and an inventory of current courses at training institutes, organisations and universities, a strategy document to guide planning and implementation of capacity development and elaboration of a survey on existing courses in order to add basic capacity development information to the joint SuSanA database. In addition she gives an overview on existing or planned courses and announced the workshop on knowledge development in Africa, which is planned for the later evening (see below). Arne Panesar informs about the planned resources material CD/DVD on ‘capacity development for sustainable sanitation’. The planned CD/DVD is meant as a further development, update and extension of the already existing gtz-‘capacity building for ecological sanitation’-CD which was initially prepared by gtz for the WWF in Mexico in early 2006. The resource material CD/DVD is seen as a service to the SuSanA as a whole and the process is steered by gtz. Aim of the CD/DVD is to collect and disseminate up-to-date capacity development material for sustainable sanitation from all organisations that are working in that field and draw from the knowledge base generated within the SuSanA, in order to show innovation towards more sustainable sanitation and provide ready-to-use material for capacity development. In general the CD/DVD will follow the structure of the SuSanA website and will be distributed freely following the open source concept. Arne presents a draft outline of the CD/DVD which was circulated already within the capacity development working group and distributed to the leads of the other working groups and furthermore describes the roles and responsibilities of the different partners. An official call for feedback and contributions from the SuSanA partners will follow soon. The final CD/DVD is planned for August 2008 and will be launched during the 7th SuSanA meeting in Stockholm/ Sweden (August 2008).

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The importance of capacity development as one of the key elements and at the same time bottleneck towards more sustainable sanitation is recognised by the group. Within the group the question arises on how to deal with the quality control of the CD/DVD and it is suggested to give this responsibility to the respective working group leads. presentations by: Madeleine Fogde, Arne Panesar partners/lead: SEI, AEE INTEC, BGR, BOKU, Cap-Net, Earth Forever, Eawag/Sandec, ESF, gtz, IEES, IWA-

SG, IWWA, LIU, Plan International, seecon, SUDEA, TPU, TTZ, TUT, UMB, UNDP, UNESCO-IHE, UN-Habitat, Uni Essex, Waste, WES-Net

expected outcome: • fact sheet (including collection of existing and planned capacity development activities)

• strategy document (to guide planning and implementation of capacity development; taking into consideration new target groups; instrumental for assessment, implementation and monitoring of sustainable sanitation actions)

• paper on e-learning courses • survey for joint database (adding of information on capacity development institutions) • resource material CD/DVD “capacity development for sustainable sanitation” current state: • terms of reference http://www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org/pdf/en-SuSanA-wg01-ToRs.pdf • draft fact sheet was circulated and awaits further comments

http://www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org/pdf/en-SuSanA-wg01-draft-factsheet.pdf • draft outline for the resource material CD/DVD • draft survey on existing courses and learning opportunities http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=SSSHe8VdC_2fXIPOuOFUrEHg_3d_3d

next steps: • finalisation of the fact sheet • finishing the outline of the CD/DVD and official call for contributions • finalising survey and building up the database 10:30 brief introduction of SuSanA (Christine Werner • gtz)

see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-05-susana-introduction-christine-werner.pdf

Following a request of some new participants, Christine Werner gives a short presentation on the SuSanA using the recently developed general SuSanA powerpoint presentation. She describes the background of SuSanA, the declaration of the IYS 2008 by the UN that led to its formation and former SuSanA meetings. She furthermore presents the goals and objectives of the SuSanA as well as the sustainability criteria developed by the SuSanA to be considered when planning a new or improving an existing sanitation solution. She describes SuSanA as an open network of different organisations and everybody is invited to participate but should do so as an active partner. Steering group meetings are held every 3 months and organised by different local hosting organisations. The only existing structure of the SuSanA so far consists of the agreed joint roadmap and the quarterly SuSanA meetings and all partnering organisation contribute their work and resources on their own expense. For the time being gtz took over the secretariat function trying to make the whole process as transparent as possible. All SuSanA related decisions so far were taken within the SuSanA meetings and documented in the minutes of the meetings which can be downloaded from the SuSanA website (www.susana.org). It is mentioned by the group that a general SuSanA introduction should be included as an integral part at the beginning of any future SuSanA meeting in order to give new participants the chance to level off. Another comment is that governments should become more involved and that the SuSanA should better understand the interface with governmental institutions. It was furthermore stated that the SuSanA objectives could be more specific. Than the discussion arise whether the SuSanA remains as a loose open network or if the SuSanA should proceed in a more structured, institutionalised format.

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day 1 • session 2 • chair: Andreas Knapp presentation of the current status of the SuSanA working groups • part II

11:30 working group 02 • cost and economics of sustainable sanitation

see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-06-wg-economics-christine-werner.pdf

Christine Werner gives a short overview on the current state of this working group, which was seen by many as one of the most important working groups of the SuSanA but is unfortunately not very active at the moment. She presents the current list of partners and what was accomplished until now, which includes among others, the development of terms of reference through the WSP for an economic study of some Urine Diversion Dehydration Toilet projects in Africa, a preliminary literature review on costs and economics of sustainable sanitation by gtz, the inclusion of cost issues in the draft update of the questionnaire for the Google-Earth based data bank for sustainable sanitation projects, developed by SEI and gtz, a study on economic impacts of sanitation in Southeast Asia done by WSP, a discussion paper on financial and economic assessment of sanitation by KfW and the development of a first draft of the terms of reference of the working group done by gtz. However the group has been lagging behind since a permanent lead of the working group is still not established. With regard to the overall importance of the subject, the burning issue is to find an active lead and establish the communication within the group for producing the planned outputs. For the later afternoon there is a working group meeting foreseen to discuss the further proceeding and to find an active lead of the group (see below). It is mentioned that the whole cost and economic issue is a very huge one and it is suggested to focus it down to 2-3 specific sub topics to make it workable. Furthermore Eawag/Sandec alludes that they started a small project on cost and economics of different sanitation systems in which they compare costs on the basis of bills of quantities and the results could be shared with the group. presentation by: Christine Werner partners/lead: gtz, Eawag/Sandec, KfW, Waste, WSP/WB, AEE INTEC, Big Medicine, CSE, EcosanClub,

GWP, IEES, IWA, IWP, JBIC, SEI, SVNIT, UNDP, Uni Essex, Vanray, Vikalp, WECF, WTO expected outcome: • fact sheet • economic study on sustainable sanitation methods in Sub-Saharan Africa • methodology on cost-benefit analysis of sustainable sanitation and use of recycling products • literature review • case studies current state: • first draft of the terms of reference http://www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org/documents/5thmeeting/minutesdocs/en-wg2-tors-costs-and-economics-

2008-02-13.doc • terms of reference for study on sub-Saharan Africa completed http://www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org/pdf/en-SuSanA-wg02-ToRs-economics-ecosan-Sub-Saharan-Africa.pdf • questionnaire for database under revision http://www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org/pdf/en-SuSanA-wg02-proposal-for-sanitation-survey.pdf • 2nd draft of the literature review on costs and economics of sustainable sanitation is being revised and circulated http://www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org/documents/5thmeeting/minutesdocs/en-wg2-literature-review-gtz-2008-

1-28.doc • study on economic impact of sanitation in Southeast Asia by WSP http://www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org/documents/5thmeeting/minutesdocs/en-wg2-economic-impacts-of-

sanitation-southeast-asia-wsp-2007-11.pdf • discussion paper on financial and economic assessment of sanitation by KfW http://www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org/documents/5thmeeting/minutesdocs/en-wg2-discussion-paper-kfw-2008-

02-11.doc http://www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org/documents/5thmeeting/minutesdocs/en-wg2-annex-discussion-paper-

kfw-2008-02-11.xls next steps: • establishment of communication within the group • finalising terms of reference • finalising the draft survey for practitioners and circulating it • further development of the methodology on cost-benefit analysis of sustainable sanitation • drafting of fact sheet • collection of case studies • conduction of study on sustainable sanitation methods in Sub-Saharan Africa

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11:45 working group 03 • sustainable sanitation, renewable energies, groundwater protection and climate change

see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-07-wg-energy-mirko-haenel.pdf

Mirko Hänel presents the current state of the working group and first results. While the terms of reference and a data compilation sheet have been completed, the fact sheet is still in progress and in circulation among the partners. He presents the current list of partners and highlights that the group is still comparably small and others are invited to take part in this working group. The next steps of the group are to finalise the factsheet, continue the collection of case studies and to come forward with the farmer guide. He than gives a picturesque overview on different application options by using sanitation flow streams for energy production and highlights that the energy aspects should be always considered while planning or upgrading sanitation systems. A small working group meeting is planned for the same evening (see below) to discus the further proceeding and all are invited to take part. It is mentioned by the group that the climate change issue is a very important topic within this working group but until now not sufficiently represented. At the same time it is stated that the output of the working group can only reflect the active contributions of the working group members and Mirko again invites other participants to join the group. presentation by: Mirko Hänel partners/lead: TTZ, BGR, BORDA, DED, gtz, IBBK, IFAD, PUVeP, Rand Water, SNV, SLU, Uni Beijing, Uni

Hohenheim, Uni Kwa-Zulu, Uni Xavier, WRC expected outcome: • fact sheet • information package for farmers (guidelines, cost-benefit analysis, best practice examples, info-

sources) by Summer 2008 • characterise and select suitable sources of wastewater for non-food crop production • collection of success stories and best practises current status: • draft terms of reference http://www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org/pdf/en-SuSanA-wg03-ToRs-2007-08.pdf • collection of information based on existing literature http://www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org/pdf/en-SuSanA-wg03-information-compilation-2007-08.pdf • planning for a conference on sanitation & groundwater protection (Oct. 2008) • draft factsheet in circulation http://www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org/documents/5thmeeting/minutesdocs/en-wg3-factsheet-first-draft-2008-

02-29.doc next steps: • identifying and contacting of new partners • finalising the fact sheet by April • inclusion of climate change aspects • coordination with working group on food security and productive sanitation systems • working meeting on farmers guide (March 2008 Spain) • collection of case studies 12:00 working group 04 • sanitation systems, technology options, hygiene and health

see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-08-wg-sanitation-systems-chris-zurbrugg.pdf

Chris Zurbrügg presents the current state of the group, mentioning that the group renamed itself from ‘treatment options, hygiene and health’ into ‘sanitation systems, technology options, hygiene and health’. Main goal of the working group is to launch the discussion and debate on the concept of sanitation systems, to describe the wide variety of sanitation systems and technology components available with their advantages and disadvantages given selected sustainability criteria and to describe their function towards reducing health risks of stakeholders and downstream affected populations by technical and nontechnical means. Basic output of the group is the compendium of sanitation systems and technologies, which will be elaborated within NETSSAF - a European Commission funded programme, composed of 19 partners from 12 African and European countries that focus on implementation of adaptable and replicable sustainable sanitation solutions. In addition the group aims at producing a factsheet on the importance to engage in a system perspective, taking into account waste products, processes/functions and technologies. Andreas Knapp from WSP offers his support in reviewing the NETSSAF document and suggested that it should be peer reviewed by all working group leads. After further enquiry Chris explains that the NETSSAF compendium did not

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include an in-depth sustainability assessment and therefore did not exclude sanitation systems that have a low sustainability, it only left out sanitation components that are to expensive (e.g. membrane technology). An objection raised by the group was that the language might be to technical and it could be useful to develop a simplified version for decision makers. presentation by: Chris Zurbrügg partners/ lead: Eawag/Sandec, SEI, AEE INTEC, BGR, BOKU, Ecosanlac, gtz, KfW, IWA, IWA-SG, IWWA,

TTZ, UN-Habitat, UNDP, UNESCO-IHE, WSSCC expected outcome: • fact sheet • compendium of sanitation systems and technologies (NETSSAF) http://www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org/documents/5thmeeting/minutesdocs/en-wg4-compendium-for-review-

2008-02-28.pdf current state: • assessment of different systems and treatment options done by NETSSAF next steps: • outline of outputs defined by next SuSanA meeting in NY • cross communication with other working groups • inclusion of health aspects into the system assessment 12:30 working group 05 • food security and productive sanitation systems

see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-09-wg-food-security-robert-gensch.pdf

en-susana-durban-presentation-10-wg-food-security-case-study-pay-drechsel.pdf en-susana-durban-presentation-11-wg-food-security-case-study-linus-dagerskorg.pdf

Robert Gensch presents the current status of the working group and goes through the group member list and invites further people to join in. The group’s planned outputs are a fact sheet, a collection of case studies, a guide for farmers and as a long-term goal a more comprehensive publication. A second draft of the fact sheet is currently in circulation and will be finalised until the next SuSanA meeting in NY. He furthermore presents a first draft of the guide for farmers noting that this will be more a criteria catalogue for the development of locally adapted farmer manuals. He then presents the final case study template which was developed in close collaboration with the working group on sustainable sanitation for cities and can now serve as a general template to be used by all working groups. The template will be circulated with the minutes. He then welcomes Pay Drechsel and Linus Dagerskog who shortly present 2 case studies from Africa, namely from Ghana and Burkina Faso. Pay Drechsel presents some examples and lessons learned from Ghana where excreta reuse is successfully practised. The examples range from the widely practised direct reuse of excreta from septic tanks, to a co-composting pilot station in Kumasi and the mixing of settled sludge and waste compost in Accra. Linus Dagerskog gives a short overview on the work of CREPA – a regional centre for low cost water supply and sanitation in West and Central Africa with headquarter in Burkina Faso – and here particularly its ecosan program. He then presents examples and experiments where reuse of urine is practices. It is suggested from the audience to approach bigger actors or even companies to participate. In addition it is mentioned to take into consideration that the resource reuse needs demand driven action and the working group should give guidance how this dynamic can be initiated. presentation by: Robert Gensch, Pay Drechsel, Linus Dagerskorg partners/ lead: gtz, Aquamor, FAO, Ecosanlac, EKWMA, IDRC, IEES, IFAD, IWMI, PUVeP, RUAF,

SEI/EcoSanRes, SLU, TTZ, Uni Essex, Uni Freiburg, Uni Hohenheim, Uni-Xavier, Water for People, WHO, ICEE

expected outcome: • fact sheet • collection of case studies • major publication based on the fact sheet • guide for farmers • making use of events, agricultural media etc.

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current state: • terms of reference finalised http://www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org/pdf/en-SuSanA-wg05-ToRs-2007-10-02.pdf • second draft of the fact sheet http://www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org/documents/5thmeeting/minutesdocs/en-wg5-factsheet-final-draft-2008-

02-04.doc • case study template developed http://www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org/documents/5thmeeting/minutesdocs/en-SuSanA-case-study-template-

2008-02-07.doc • first draft of the guide for farmers http://www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org/documents/5thmeeting/minutesdocs/en-wg5-guide-for-farmers-1st-draft-

2008-01-08.doc • first case studies collected next steps: • final version of the fact sheet until the SuSanA meeting in New York • continuous collection of case studies • second draft of the guide for farmers • planning for special issue of the RUAF Urban Agriculture Magazine on sustainable sanitation • broader publication on food security and sustainable sanitation

day 1 • session 3 • chair: Richard Holden presentation of the current status of the SuSanA working groups • part III

14:00 working group 06 • sustainable sanitation for cities and planning

see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-12-wg-cities-arne-panesar.pdf

Arne Panesar presents the current status of the working group on sustainable sanitation for cities and planning, its participants, objectives and the developments within the group since Stockholm (August 2007). He reports on the 2 working group meetings that took place in Paris (September 2007) and Dübendorf (January 2008). In Paris it was decided to merge the cities and planning working group and to develop 2 or maybe 3 separate fact sheets, a collection of urban case studies, a source book on sanitation planning approaches and to organise for an international conference during IYS 2008 featuring new sustainable sanitation planning approaches. In Dübendorf a first draft fact sheet on sustainable sanitation for cities was developed and in addition a smaller working group meeting took place on Friday in Durban to continue working on the fact sheet. The ‘cities’ fact sheet will be finalised until the next SuSanA meeting in New York and the work on the second fact sheet on sustainable sanitation planning will start in April. presentation by: Arne Panesar partners/lead: gtz, Eawag/Sandec, AEE INTEC, BGR, BOKU, BGR, EETP, IRHA, ITAS, IWA, IWMI, IWWA,

RUAF, SEI, STI, SWH, TUHH, UNDP, UNESCO-IHE, UN-Habitat, Uni Delft, Uni Essex, WSP, WUR

expected outcome: • 2 fact sheets on ‘cities’ and ‘planning’ • possible fact sheet on urban sustainable sanitation practices • source book on successful urban sanitation approaches • collection of case studies • international conference on sustainable sanitation planning in 2008 current state: • draft terms of reference http://www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org/pdf/en-SuSanA-wg06-ToRs-2007-07-05.pdf • first draft of the ‘cities’ fact sheet link next steps: • finalisation of the cities fact sheet until New York • start working on the ‘planning’ fact sheet • working group meeting at IWA in The Hague in June 2008 • collection of first case studies

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14:30 working group 07 • community and rural sanitation

see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-13-wg-community-satyendra-tripathi.pdf Satyendra Tripathi presents the sanitation promotion initiatives through community sanitation. He presents sanitation options for community empowerment provided by Sulabh and describes community involvement as one of the key constituents of successful community management. He describes the concept of community participation during every phase of the project in order to create ownership and the user’s responsibility for the facilities and gives a short idea on the financial viability of the projects. It is mentioned by the group that the issue of community sanitation is not limited to the great work Sulabh is doing in India but should include other aspects like school sanitation, rural sanitation, the total sanitation campaign, social marketing strategies etc. and other regions should contribute their knowledge as well. Plan International South Africa offered to take over the lead of the group and a small working group meeting is planned for the same evening to discuss the further proceeding of the group (see below). presentation by: Satyendra Tripathi partners/leads: Plan International, gtz, IEES, IRC, Sulabh, UN-Habitat, UNDP, UNESCO-IHE, UNICEF, Waste,

WECF, WSP, WTO expected outcome: • fact sheet • publication • case study collection current state: • Sulabh community sanitation project • list of IRC activities in school sanitation and hygiene promotion next steps: • establishment of communication within the group and contacting of additional partners • terms of reference by May 2008 14:45 working group 08 • sustainable sanitation in emergency & reconstruction situations

It is stated that the group still lacks an active lead and no progress has been made so far. UNICEF as the lead of the IASC Global WASH Cluster offers to take over the lead. A short presentation from Paul Sherlock the UNICEF cluster coordinator will follow on Sunday (see below). partners/lead: UNICEF, BGR, gtz, IRC, Oxfam, SEI, UNESCO-IHE, Uni Delft, WES-Net, WTO (should be

approached: ICRC, IRS, Kanan, THW, UNDP, UNHCR) expected outcome: • fact sheet • publication (e.g. handbook on good practises) • capacity building material for emergency and reconstruction organisations current state: • new lead found next steps: • establishment of communication within the group • draft terms of reference

day 1 • session 4 • chair: Elisabeth Kvarnstroem presentation of the current status of the SuSanA working groups • part IV

15:30 working group 09 & 10 • sanitation as a business & public awareness and sanitation marketing

working group 09: sanitation as a business

see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-14-wg-awareness-jack-sim.pdf

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Elisabeth Kvarnstroem quickly goes through the presentation from Jack Sim, who was not able to participate at the meeting due to other obligations. Then it is decided by the group to collect ideas and inputs from the audience that might be helpful for structuring this two working groups. It is mentioned that in both groups the coordination of activities and the contacting of partners has not yet taken place and that the current lead WTO should be supported in its efforts to structure both working groups. Streams of Knowledge than steps in and expresses interest to support WTO in improving the communication within the sanitation as a business working group, since their partners have experience in mobilising for sanitation and are currently looking into organising a workshop on the topic of sanitation as a business. partners/lead: Streams of Knowledge, WTO, CapNet South Asia, gtz, Eawag/Sandec, GWA, GWP, IEES,

Peace Bird Society, seecon, SSP, UN-Habitat, Vanarai, Vikalp expected outcome: • factsheet current state: • none next steps: • establishment of communication within the group • draft terms of reference working group 10: public awareness and sanitation marketing Regarding the working group on awareness raising and sanitation marketing it is stated that the current work is not much factsheet-oriented but a collection of concrete activities to be carried out during the year 2008 and that WTO would be certainly open to any ideas and partners who may want to get further involved and bring in structure. CREPA offered to contribute with case studies and awareness raising experience from various countries. WSP Latin America has a lot of activities in this field and offered to contribute to the working group as well. AEE/INTEC is currently producing videos on sustainable sanitation systems in Germany and is willing to share it with SuSanA. Finally it is suggested to include the aspect of promotion and marketing also into the community and rural sanitation working group. presentation by: Elisabeth Kvarnstroem partners/lead: WTO, AEE INTEC, Ashoka, CREPA, Ecosanlac, EDP, GTO, IEES, IRC, WaterAid, WSP,

affiliated Nina Odenwälder next steps: • establishment of communication within the group • systematic recording of events, activities during the year and beyond • development of sanitation marketing strategies 16:10 working group 11 • operation and maintenance of sustainable sanitation

It is stated that although Waste has the lead of the working group it was dormant for the last half year. Gerd de Bruijne from Waste mentioned that they now allocated a budget to effectively lead this working group. The participants of the meeting then agreed to collect ideas and inputs from the group that might be helpful for structuring the working group. Since the group is still comparatively small all partners are invited to contribute and actively participate in this working group. The notes of the discussion you will find here: http://www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org/documents/5thmeeting/minutesdocs/en-wg11-input-collection.doc. partners/lead: Waste, AEE INTEC, BOKU, Eawag/Sandec, IWA, SEI, WECF expected outcome: • fact sheet • range of articles current state: • none next steps: • draft terms of reference • establishment of communication within the group 16:30 working group 12 • knowledge management & sanitation marketing

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see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-15-wg-communication-christine-werner.pdf

Christine Werner gives an update on the ongoing activities regarding knowledge management and communication, which are coordinated by gtz as the interim secretariat of the SuSanA. corporate design A corporate design for all future SuSanA publications (vision document, roadmap, fact sheet, case study collection) as well as a layout for the SuSanA internet appearance was developed in collaboration with a professional designer. The case study template and the fact sheet template will be available on the homepage soon.

SuSanA logo/ group logo The current SuSanA group logo (SuSanA logo in combination with logos of all partner organisations, see picture below) with its currently 70 partner logos is presented. Since the SuSanA is a dynamic network, further organisations and their logos can be easily added at any time. All organisations that are not yet included with their logo and would like to be represented as one of the partners of the SuSanA should send in the logo of their organisation in eps-format (or alternatively as a high quality tif or jpg file) to info@sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org. The joint SuSanA logo with all partner logos is intended to be used on the website and on the SuSanA statement. For all other applications (fact sheets, guidelines, brochures) modified versions of the group logo are possible, dependent on the individual willingness of the SuSanA partners to support a certain document. To ease the approval process all final draft documents will be circulated by the SuSanA secretariat for final comments and all organisations that do not agree with a certain document should give a brief feedback on that and will then be left out of the group logo for this specific document.

For the use of the SuSanA logo by SuSanA partners the following logo is available and will be distributed to all SuSanA partners in a separate email.

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website A static interim website is already established at www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org. Furthermore gtz purchased the domain www.susana.org intended to become the final SuSanA web address. This domain is currently linked to the interim website and will be used to build up the final website. The website is intended to be finalised until end of April 2008. Hosting and content management of the website will be organised by gtz and NetUni with the support by all SuSanA partners. The actual content has to be contributed by all partners at a later stage and all working group outcomes and documents to be published on the website should be sent to info@sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org and will be circulated among all partners for final approval. With regard to the content the following structure or categories are suggested so far: • home

o short introduction, goals and objectives of the SuSanA • vision documents

o vision document I: SuSanA statement ‘towards more sustainable sanitation solutions’ o vision document II: ‘Sustainable pathways to attain the MDGs’ o vision document III: guideline for sanitation action plans

• roadmap o joint road map o SuSanA meetings (agenda, minutes, presentations)

• working groups (for each individual working group) o output and deliverables o further information o log-in for working group members

• projects and case studies o database of sustainable sanitation projects and case studies o link to an external Google map and adding of projects via interactive questionnaire

• capacity development material o documentation of workshops/seminars o examples of curricula/e-learning o selected training and teaching material o films, pictures, awareness raising material o recommended reading o conference proceeding

• SuSanA partners o list of all partners with logo, short description, contact and link

• about us Wikipedia Currently there are 2 SuSanA entries on Wikipedia. One is on ‘sustainable sanitation’ and the other is an entry about the ‘Sustainable Sanitation Alliance’. Both are partly based on the SuSanA vision statement and should be continuously updated by all partners. SuSanA Powerpoint A general Powerpoint presentation was developed to be used by all SuSanA partners at international meetings and conferences in order to introduce the goals and objectives as well as joint activities of the SuSanA to a wider audience. The final draft version was circulated among the SuSanA partners for final approval and will be distributed to all SuSanA partners as a ppt-file and can be downloaded from the SuSanA homepage as a pdf-file soon. Regular updates will however be required with regard to the work progress of the SuSanA and the inclusion of additional partner logos. photos/ pictures The group is requested to provide qualitatively good photos, pictures, graphics or cartoons for illustration of the various publications to info@sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org with indication of the source, what is shown and where the

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picture was made. Here the copyright aspect has to be considered. In addition a sustainable sanitation picture databank on www.flickr.com was initiated. languages At the earlier Stockholm meeting the decision was taken that English will be the main language for all publications. In addition the most important publications (vision documents, factsheets) should be available in all 6 UN languages and perhaps in some local languages. The SuSanA vision statement is already translated into French. For the following languages some participating persons/organisations offered to translate the SuSanA statement accordingly: • Spanish - Mirko Hänel/ Leonellha Barreto (TTZ) & Jenny Aragundy (Ecosanlac) • French – Benjamin Zilberman (FTO) • Arabic – Martin Regelsberger (AEE INTEC) • Hindi - Bhawna Vajpai (For the translation into Chinese and Russian the SuSanA still has to find a volunteering organisation.) press release The group discussed the possibility of a SuSanA press release on the World Water Day 2008 (May 22nd). Since this day falls on the Easter weekend this year it is offcially decided to prepone it to May 20th 2008. A first draft of the press statement will be done by gtz, will then be circulated for feedback and final comments and finally released on May 20th 2008. print products/ printing costs All final deliverables will be made publicly available in pdf-format on the SuSanA homepage and can be downloaded free of charge. With regard to an appropriate distribution strategy the group decides to decentralise the distribution, which means that all partners are responsible for printing out the documents themselves. Since the development of most documents is work in progress and it is aimed to allow for well-founded changes in most of the documents at any given time during the process and for continuously including the logos of additional partners, the final deliverables will be called versions and shall be numbered accordingly. This means all partners can download and print/copy the respective current version in any quantity. It is recommended to use recycled paper for printing. If sufficient funding would be available, also the coordinated printing of some of the mayor publications may be possible, in order to make use of economies of scale.

day 1 • working group meetings 2-hour meetings of the working group 1, 2, 3 & 7

17:00 workshop on capacity development in Africa

see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-16-teaching-lowcost-sanitation-peter-morgan.pdf

en-susana-durban-presentation-17-female-entrepreneurship-tabbie-kayange.pdf en-susana-durban-presentation-18-acceptance-of-ecosan-in-mozambique-luis-macario.pdf en-susana-durban-presentation-19-supporting-knowledge-institutions-bloodless-dzawiro.pdf SEI as lead of the SuSanA capacity development group invited all interested SuSanA participants to an Africa session focusing on capacity development within the area of sustainable sanitation. In a region with few active professionals in the sanitation sector and where efficient means of communication are expensive and not reliable due to insufficient infrastructure, networks, and irregular power supplies, dissemination of knowledge has proven difficult even though a wealth of knowledge on sustainable sanitation exists. The dissemination of this Africa-grown knowledge within the continent is seen extremely important for the up-scaling of such initiatives, thus SEI EcoSanRes has organised this special session during the SuSanA meeting with this very focus. The invitation, including the agenda of the workshop you will find here: http://www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org/documents/5thmeeting/minutesdocs/en-invitation-to-capacity-development-workshop.doc 17:00 working group meeting • wg 2: cost & economics of sustainable sanitation

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The meeting of the working group on cost and economics of sustainable sanitation is attended by 15 participants who all agreed on the high importance of the topics covered. In a vivid discussion the partners of the working group talk about the further steps after GWP renounced as a group lead. Due to the very broad fields of activity of the working group members and its high significance, the partners agree on start working without the need for a formalized lead. If possible the different work packages should be equally distributed among the partners. Main outcomes of the group include that WSP will coordinate an economic study on sustainable sanitation methods in Sub-Saharan Africa. After the completion of the interception report, WSP will coordinate the progress of the study and invite the working group partners to comment on the results and the further steps of the study. Possibly the study could also be extended to some more case studies, as the present funding of the WSP is covering only about three cases to be evaluated. Besides that, Eawag and Waste will harmonise their activities to come up with results on the bills of quantities of sustainable sanitation systems. Furthermore, gtz-ecosan offered to organise the communication in the group, will finalise the literature review on costs and economics of sustainable sanitation and will further develop and circulate the questionnaire for sustainable sanitation systems that should be revised concerning the economic aspects by the whole group. Other tasks of the working group include the elaboration of the methodology on cost-benefit analysis of sustainable sanitation based on the work on Guy Hutton and the discussion paper of the KfW. The next working group meetings are planned for New York and Stockholm during the next two SuSanA meetings. 17:00 working group meeting • wg 3: renewable energy, groundwater protection & climate change

The working group on renewable energies, groundwater protection and climate change meets to discuss the further proceeding of the group and here particularly the further elaboration of the factsheet. It is decided to finalise the factsheet until the next SuSanA meeting in New York in May and the tasks for the different chapters were assigned. New partners like the WRC, the Uni Kwa-Zulu Natal and Rand Water joined the group. 17:00 working group meeting • wg 7: community and rural sanitation

The working group on community and rural sanitation meets to discuss the further proceeding of the group and it is agreed that Plan International (South Africa) as the new lead will establish the communication within the group and draft terms of reference until the next SuSanA meeting in New York (May 2008).

day 2 • session 5 • chair: Chris Zurbruegg SuSanA vision documents

09:00 welcoming address and wrap up of day 1

see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-20-wrap-up-chris-zurbruegg.pdf

Chris Zurbrügg welcomes the new participants of the meeting and summarises the first day of the SuSanA meeting as very intensive and successful. He gives a brief update of the proceeding of each of the SuSanA working groups. Most of the working groups made promising steps forward since the last meeting in Delhi, developed the terms of reference and already elaborated first outputs. Some working groups are still lagging behind or have not yet started working and have to establish the communication within the group, elaborate terms of reference and/or clarify who may lead the group. After the end of the official meeting some working groups such as the working group on capacity development for sustainable sanitation, on costs and economics of sustainable sanitation, on sustainable sanitation, renewable energies, groundwater protection and climate change and on community and rural sanitation took the chance to meet in the reserved time slot before the joint dinner. Here some important decisions for the process of the working groups have been taken: The lead of the working group on community sanitation is taken by Plan International while the former lead Sulabh will continue to play an important role within the group. The next steps are to draft the terms of references until the upcoming SuSanA meeting in New York. The working group on costs and economics of sustainable sanitation also made important steps forward and is preparing various studies related to costs and bills of quantities of sustainable sanitation systems. Furthermore, the working group participants agree on improving the communication and knowledge exchange within the group even without a lead. 09:30 vision document 1 • SuSanA statement

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see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-21-susana-statement-robert-gensch.pdf see SuSanA vision statement I: en-susana-vision-statement-I-version-1-2-feb-2008.pdf

Robert Gensch gives a short update on the history and the development of the SuSanA and the first vision document by exhibiting a general PowerPoint presentation to be used by all SuSanA partners at international meetings and conferences in order to introduce the SuSanA to a wider audience. He explains for the new participants by help of this general presentation the urgency for action towards more sustainable sanitation projects, the elaborated sustainability criteria and the objectives of the SuSanA. The joint SuSanA statement was elaborated in order to clarify the goals and objectives of the Alliance and to communicate them to a broader public. At the 3rd SuSanA meeting in Stockholm, the SuSanA partners endorsed the SuSanA statement in its actual form besides the elimination of spelling mistakes, minor wording changes and the addition of the logos of those organisations that are willing to be represented on this statement. For the first time the first vision statement is now available in French at the AfricaSan+5 conference – it was translated by the French Toilet Organisation. AEE/INTEC already elaborated an Arabic version of the statement that, however, still has to be revised, formatted and printed. Concerning the proposal of elaborating an additional document to introduce the organisational structure of the SuSanA, Kirsten Dölle volunteers to prepare a first draft to be circulated before the next SuSanA meeting in New York. She will also make a draft for a SuSanA press statement on the occation of the World Water Day. The aspect of including even more socio-cultural and health-related topics within the work of the SuSanA is addressed and will be accounted for within the working group of organisation and maintenance of sustainable sanitation and by providing sufficient space for recommended readings on the website of the SuSanA. Following the explanation of the history of the SuSanA, the question is discussed if the Alliance should remain a loose network or become more formalised. In the former meetings the organisation as an open platform to discuss issues related to sustainable sanitation was seen as the most appropriate solution. Meanwhile, the SuSanA established a formalised way how decisions are done and how communication works trying to be as transparent as possible. However, by growing steadily, the SuSanA has reached a size that is seen by some participants as too complicated to coordinate without a formal structure. Changing the SuSanA from the current loose network to a formalised body would imply the need for funding and the development of a formalised body may be time-consuming and reducing the current efficiency of group. However the topic should be given more time for discussion in the agenda of the next SuSanA meeting in New York. 09:45 vision document 2 • sustainable pathways to attain the MDGs

see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-22-vision2-arno-rosemarin.pdf

Arno Rosemarin presents the current state of the EcoSanRes document on ‘sustainable pathways to attain the MDGs’, which will serve as the second vision document of the SuSanA. This document is meant as the advancement of an already existing SEI document of the same title which was published in 2005. This older version has its limitations e.g. as the knowledge base was less sufficient in this time. The document can be downloaded under the following link: http://www.ecosanres.org/pdf_files/MDGRep/SustMDG31Auglowres.pdf. The reason why this document should serve as the 2nd vision document of the SuSanA is because the international community is in many parts of the world failing to meet the MDGs and in those regions where the MDGs are reached it is done mostly in an unsustainable way. That is why the vision document 2 will review the present status of the sanitation targets, describing the regions that are ‘on-track’ and those who are ‘off-track’ by taking into account population trends and urbanisation tendencies. It will examine the methods used in working with the JMP, FAO and UN-Habitat global data and the limitation of these respective databases, especially the definition of sanitation coverage that lacks any assessment of functionality or quality. It will introduce the concept of sustainable sanitation and the challenges in scaling it up. It will than outline a scenario that depicts how this new approach can be put into practise on a global scale, with definitions of system and geographic boundaries, descriptions of technical options for different settings and local conditions and attempts to define critical numbers for 50% or 100% implementation of the MDGs, respectively. It will furthermore focus on economics in terms of capital investments, operation and maintenance and the economic benefits in terms of health, environment, robustness and social aspects. An essential part of the vision document is the imminent depletion of fertilizer resources such as phosphor and potassium and the looming addiction in supply of fertiliser as the resources are controlled by only eight countries. Taking this into account, the document will analyse the commercial value of recycling human excreta and household organics, soil carbon calculations and implications for reduction of global CO2 emissions as well as governmental policy and implications on businesses if such a scenario is to be realised. The final document is about to be launched at the World Water Week (WWW) in Stockholm (in August 2008). A first draft of the document is to be completed until April 15, then the document will be reviewed by the SuSanA partners for a month before sending the final draft on June 15 and launching the 2nd SuSanA vision document with the

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IWA on August 20 at the Stockholm World Water Week. It is recommended by the group that SEI should link the elaboration process of this vision document more closely with the working groups of the SuSanA, especially with the working group of costs and economics of sustainable sanitation. One comment from the group is to include the aspects of increased urbanisation and groundwater protection into the paper. 11:15 vision document 3 • guideline for sanitation action plans

see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-23-vision3-arne-panesar.pdf

The third SuSanA vision statement is intended to be a guideline for sanitation action plans, which should provide guidance to countries, communities and agencies and should leave a noticeable impact in practice. It is envisaged as a concrete statement on how sustainable sanitation can be implemented on a large scale, what means of finance have to be allocated for its realisation and how these funds can be invested in a sustainable and intelligent manner. It is mentioned that there exists already a variety of guidelines and that a first step should be to evaluate what has been developed so far and how these sanitation guidelines can be reviewed and updated in terms of sustainability. Most countries have already a roadmap that deals with attaining the MDGs and the outcome of the vision document 3 process should be to develop a guideline on how to improve those roadmaps. The importance of knowledge transfer of already existing action plans to the people in the field and the necessity of a centrally managed information pool about sanitation action plans is stressed. This work can be done by the working group on operation of maintenance of sustainable sanitation as they understand their work also as institutional framework analysis. In order to spread information about existing National Action Plans the SuSanA secretariat can be informed, followed by an information mail to the partners addressed. It is mentioned that the inclusion of sustainability criteria into sanitation action plans should be of prior importance.

see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-24-burkina-faso-desiree-nana.pdf Afterwards Désirée Nana from gtz Burkina Faso gives a presentation prepared by her and Basile Kabore, the mayor of Ouagadougou. The presentation is kindly translated by Linus Dagerskog working for SEI and Crepa from French into English. In her interesting speech Désirée addresses the successful decentralisation process in her country and its positive impacts on the supply with sustainable sanitation. She describes this process on the basis of the running ecosan UE project in Burkina Faso. Désirée also stresses the importance of the involvement of all social and private stakeholders by the help of awareness raising, especially for the political decision makers.

day 2 • session 6 • chair: Abdoulaye Fall funding, communication, events & next meetings

see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-25-unicef-paul-sherlock.pdf

Paul Sherlock, the UNICEF cluster coordinator presents shortly the new humanitarian reform agenda and the role UNICEF is playing as the lead of the IASC Global WASH Cluster. The idea behind the humanitarian reform agenda was to build a stronger and more predictable humanitarian response system by enhancing capacity, leadership and accountability in 9 ‘gap’ sectors of response. Furthermore it is aimed to ensure an adequate, timely and flexible humanitarian financing, to improve the humanitarian coordination and to build up more effective partnerships between UN and non-UN humanitarian actors. For this reason the cluster approach was developed to thematically bundle the relevant actors from UN, NGO and donor side and in which WASH is one of the clusters or sector working groups respectively. UNICEF as the WASH cluster lead offered to take over the lead of the SuSanA working group on sanitation in emergency and reconstruction situations. 13:00 funding

IFAD funding initiative (Laurent Stravato)

see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-26-ifad-laurent-stravato.pdf Laurent Stravato gives an interesting presentation on IFAD and its initiative on best practises optimising nutrient recycling. He explained that the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is a $ 800 million fund that finances agricultural and rural development mainly through loans and is complemented by additional grants interventions of the BSF joint programme. He presents a study undertaken in Mauretania on the economic value of urine as a fertiliser and experiences from West Africa on fertilisation with urine highlighting the potential of sustainable

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sanitation and its interlinkage with agriculture. He mentioned that IFAD already initiated 2 pilot projects in close collaboration with CREPA and EcoSanRes in Niger and Mauretania. Ashoka Changemaker competition (Arne Panesar)

see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-27-ashoka-changemaker-arne-panesar.pdf Arne Panesar briefly report on the new Changemaker competition recently launched by Ashoka (a citizen-sector support system for social entrepreneurs) in partnership with Global Water Challenge in order to open a worldwide search for ideas and projects that when scaled up, have the potential to transform the provision of sanitation and water. All are encouraged to join this competition and submit project proposals in finding solutions to the water and sanitation crises. Deadline of submission of entries is on March 26th 2008. For more information regarding the Changemakers competition please see http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/competition/waterandsanitation. WSSCC Sanitation Fund (Carolien van der Voorden) Carolien van der Voorden gives an update on the WSSCC and its newly created sanitation fund. The WSSCC is primarily a networking and knowledge management platform that hosts a variety of working groups and furthermore an advocacy and communication platform responsible among others for the WASH campaign. The 3rd pillar of the WSSCC is the sanitation fund that is already being set up and hosted by WHO and will be probably launched in March 2008. The WSSCC is currently developing the procedures for running this fund. The supported countries will be chosen according to several indicators (e.g. the number of unserved people, child mortality, national policy etc.). The selection process is intended to be transparent and will be put on the WSSCC webpage as well. The first roll out will be in at least 7 countries and 3 are already selected (Uganda, Madagascar and Nepal). After an enquiry from the group she stated that the fund primarily focuses on the access to sanitation and then secondly on the sustainability of the sanitation systems. In addition scepticism is expressed on a specific issue fund but she mentioned that since it is such a neglected and underfunded area with crucial cross-sectoral importance that such a specific sanitation fund has its right to exist. About the size of the fund she says that it will be around 10 million in the first 2 years and might grow to 100 million in some years. 13:40 joint database

see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-28-database-soeren-rued.pdf

en-susana-durban-presentation-30-world-sanitation-map-noriko-yamaguchi.pdf With a short presentation, Sören Rüd updates the knowledge of the participants on the joint database of sustainable sanitation projects. The idea is to disseminate information on sustainable sanitation projects, to make these projects ‘available’ for networking and display the increasing number of projects in one global map. The database shall serve as a platform for collection of good practise examples and could monitor the contribution of sustainable sanitation to the MDGs. EcoSanRes and gtz elaborated an input mask template for the joint database which can be found here: …. The final database will be put onto the SuSanA homepage. Noriko Yamaguchi presents afterwards an interesting initiative by the Japan Water Forum. The so-called Water Web Project launched a World Sanitation Project Map on a Google Earth Platform at the 1st Asia-Pacific Water Summit organised by JBIC; UNESCAP, UN-DESA, UNICEF and WHO in Beppu, Japan, on December 4, 2007. The current status of the Water Web Project can be seen at http://www.waterforum.jp/cgi-bin/web_gis/. It is open to everyone for free, should provide a portal to match donors with projects and give the possibility to exchange sanitation information and share project evaluations to promote sustainable sanitation projects. She proposed to link the Water Web Project to the SuSanA initiative for a joint database e.g. by linking existing data sheets to the World Sanitation Project Map or joining with the EcoSanRes-Google Map project. Her proposals are taken up with enthusiasm by the existing partners of the joint database and follow-up discussions to evaluate possibilities for joining forces are arranged. 14:00 UN events & IYS communication strategy

see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-29-iys-communication-strategy-therese-dooley.pdf

Therese Dooley gives a short presentation on the UN IYS 2008 communication strategy. She reported on the progress that has been made so far and the general communication strategy with its 5 key messages including that sanitation is vital for health, is a good economic investment, leads to social development, helps the environment and is not least achievable. Main target groups are political decision makers, aid administrators and other officials and secondary the genral public, school children, community and women’s groups, corporate and religious leaders, academics with intersection in IYS related topics and celebrities. Therefore global activities like national IYS launches, the World Water Day celebration, school competitions, photo contests, radio campaigns and a lot more are planned and tools like an advocacy pack, a media guide and the IYS flagship publication are in preparation. She finally points out that IYS is

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about all of us working together at every level and using every opportunity to promote and raise awareness about sanitation throughout the globe. In addition Thilo Panzerbieter from the GTO shortly presents the GTO campaign ‘Sanitation is Dignity’ and invited other SuSanA partners to make use of it. Furthermore it was mentioned that a BBC Earth Report on sanitation and the IYS will be displayed in March and can be ordered from the www.tve.org homepage. 14:15 further events (in chronological order)

Some participants use the opportunity to announce sustainable sanitation-related meetings, events and conferences within the next year. It is reported that there will be a 2-day national sanitation workshop in India in April 2008 organised from the Indian Government in close collaboration with SuSanA partners. CREPA announced his 20 year anniversary which will be celebrated during the final NETSSAF meeting in Ouagadougou in September 2008. With regard to the Stockholm WWW it was announced that there are already SuSanA related activities submitted and all working groups who have submitted additional side-events, seminars etc. in relation to sustainable sanitation should inform the SuSanA secretariat (info@sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org). Most sustainable sanitation related events in 2008 and beyond without claiming to be complete are listed in the table below. date city/country event 2008/03/04-07 Guangzhou/ China Water China 2008, equipment for fresh and wastewater treatment 2008/04/01-03 Kuala Lumpur/

Malaysia Asia Water 2008

2008/04/02-03 Birzeit/ Palestine 1st Symposium on Wastewater Reclamation and Reuse for Water Demand Management in Palestine

2008/04/07-11 Accra/ Ghana 33rd WEDC International Conference, Access to sanitation and safe water: global partnerships and local action

2008/04/14-16 Delhi/ India Indian National Workshop on Sustainable Sanitation 2008/04/15-16 Cambridge/ UK Workshop on knowledge and practices of using treated sewage sludge on land 2008/05/03-04 New York/ USA 6th SuSanA meeting 2008/05/05-09 Munich/ Germany IFAT 2008 2008/05/19-21 New Forest/ UK 7th International Conference on Environmental Problems in Coastal Regions 2008/05/19-21 Wageningen/

Netherlands IWA Conference Sanitation Challenge

2008/05/28-30 Edinburgh/ Scotland Water and sanitation in international development and disaster relief 2008/06/02-04 Granada/ Spain 4th International Conference on Waste Management 2008/06/11-13 Alicante/ Spain Sustainable Irrigation 2008 2008/06/14 – 2008/09/14

Zaragoza/ Spain EXPO Zaragoza 2008

2008/06/24-27 Florence/ Italy Int. Symposium on Sanitary and Environmental Engineering 2008/06/25-27 Halle/ Germany IAMO Forum: Agri-Food Business Global Challenges 2008/07/07-09 Hokkaido/ Japan G8 Summit 2008/08 Stockholm/ Sweden 7th SuSanA meeting 2008/08/17-23 Stockholm/ Sweden Stockholm World Water Week 2008 2008/09/01-04 Montpellier/ France 13th IWRA World Water Congress 2008 2008/09/07-12 Vienna/ Austria IWA World Water Congress and Exibition 2008 2008/09/15-19 Leuve/ Belgium International Symposium on Water and Urban Development Paradigm 2008/09/24-26 Ouagadougou/

Burkina Faso NETSSAF final meeting & SuSanA International conference on sustainable sanitation in Africa

2008/10/13-15 Wageningen/ Netherlands

ORBIT 2008: Moving organic waste recycling towards resource management and biobased economy

2008/10/14-17 Hannover/ Germany International Symposium on coupling sustainable sanitation and groundwater protection 2008/10/17-27 India Exposure and Dialogue Programme 2008/11 Venetian Macao 8th SuSanA meeting 2008/11/04-06 Venetian Macao World Toilet Summit & Expo 2008/11/19 worldwide World Toilet Day 2009/03/15-22 Istanbul/ Turkey 5th World Water Forum 2009/09/09-11 Oaxaca/ Mexico conference of the IWA ecosan specialist group

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14:30 next SuSanA meetings The next and 6th SuSanA meeting will take place in New York, United States in May 2008 in proximity to the 16th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD, between May 5th and 16th 2008). The final date is not confirmed yet. The meeting will be hosted by the Ashoka. An invitation to the meeting will be circulated soon. The 7th SuSanA meeting will be held in Stockholm in August 2008, within the frame of the Stockholm World Water Week 2008 (August 17th to 23rd 2008) and will be hosted by SEI. For more planning reliability the group decided already on the venue for the proximate and 8th SuSanA meeting. This is intended to take place in Venetian Macao and is closely attached to the World Toilet Summit & Expo 2008 (November 4th to 6th 2008) that will take place in Venetian Macao. In addition it is decided to make use of the final NETSSAF meeting in Ouagadougou/ Burkina Faso in September 2008 and organise a regional SuSanA meeting in Ouagadougou/ Burkina Faso. 14:45 next steps

Detailed information regarding the aimed outcome of each working group, commitments of the partners, next steps and the partners of each working groups is summarised in the joint roadmap.

day 2 • session 6 • chair: Amah Klutse • co-chair: Jay Bhagwan AfricaSan+5 & SuSanA side event • promoting and upscaling of sustainable sanitation in Africa

15:30 welcome address

Andreas Knapp welcomes all attendees of this AfricanSan+5 and SuSanA side event and apologises for the missed announcement within the AfricaSan+5 programme. Christine Werner in addition thanks for the given opportunity by WSP to have this SuSanA side event at the AfricaSan+5 conference. She invites the participants to use the opportunity and actively contribute to the discussions during the AfricaSan+5. 16:00 examples of sustainable sanitation in Africa

see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-31-durban-chris-buckley.pdf

en-susana-durban-presentation-32-biogas-for-life-abdoulaye-fall.pdf en-susana-durban-presentation-33-ecosan-burkina-faso-anselme-vodounhessi.pdf en-susana-durban-presentation-34-africasan-side-event-malawi-patricia-phiri.pdf

In this section four important examples of sustainable sanitation in Africa are presented. It ranges from the eThekwini large-scale sustainable sanitation project in Durban over the biogas for life initiative and the evaluation of the biogas potential in Burkina Faso to the Ecosan UE project in Burkina Faso and low-cost ecological sanitation experiences from Malawi. For further information please see the above presentations. 17:00 networks for the promotion of sustainable sanitation in Africa

see presentation: en-susana-durban-presentation-35-africasan-side-event-netssaf-mirko-haenel.pdf

en-susana-durban-presentation-36-africasan-side-event-rosa-benedict-mutua.pdf This last section focuses on different sustainable sanitation networks in Africa. The first is the NETSSAF project a European Commission funded programme, composed of 19 partners from 12 African and European countries that focus on the preparation of technical and organisational foundations for massive implementation of sanitation in Africa by coordinating and integrating current scientific research, technological innovation and execution activities, creating synergies and proposing feasible solutions for the achievement of the MDGs in sanitation. The final conference will be from September 24th to 27th 2008 in Ouagadougou including an additional local SuSanA meeting. The second presentation is on the ROSA project – the Resource-Oriented Sanitation concepts for peri-urban areas in Africa. The project is as well funded by the European Union and focuses on 4 model cities in Eastern Africa (Arba Minch/ Ethiopia, Nakuru/ Kenya, Arusha/ Tanzania and Kitgum/ Uganda) in a timeframe of 3 years. The last presentation was on the SEI African knowledge node and was jointly presented by SEI and their local scoping consultants of West, Eastern and Southern Africa (Patrick Bracken, Maimuna Nalubega and Edward Ghuza). For further information please see the above presentations.

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abbreviations ADB African Development Bank AEE INTEC Working Group on Renewable Energies / Institute for Sustainable

Technologies, Austria Amanz’abantu Amanz’abantu Services Ltd., South Africa AWF African Water Facility BBU Association for Civil Initiatives for Environmental Protection, Germany BGR Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Germany BOATA East-African Bureau for Organisational Support and Appropriate

Technologies BOKU University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Science, Vienna BORDA Bremen Overseas Research and Development Agency BSF Belgien Survival Fund Buckman Buckman Laboratories Cap-Net Capacity Building Network for Integrated Water Resource Management CBO Community Based Organisation CCAP Church of Central Africa Presbyterian CCODE Centre for Community Organization and Development CEMPD Centre for Environmental Management & Participatory Development, India CIM Centre for International Migration and Development, Germany CMS Content Management System CREPA Centre for Low Cost Water supply and sanitation CSD Commission for Sustainable Development CSE Centre for Science and Environment, Delhi CTO Canadian Toilet Organisation Danida Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs DBSA Development Bank of South Africa DED German Development Service DHAN DHAN Foundation, India DIFU German Institute for Urban Planning DWAF Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, South Africa Eawag Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology EcosanClub EcosanClub, Austria Ecosanlac Ecological Sanitation for Latin America and the Caribbean EDP Exposure and Dialogue Programme, Germany EED Environmental Engineering Division EETP Erdos Eco-Town Project EKWMA East Kolkata Wetlands Management Authority, India ESP Exposure and Dialogue Programme eThekwini eThekwini Water and Sanitation, South Africa EWA European Water Association FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FTO French Toilet Organisation Gates Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation GTO German Toilet Organization gtz German Development Cooperation Agency GWA Gender and Water Association GWP Global Water Partnership GWP-CEE Global Water Partnership – Central and Eastern Europe HCES Household-Centred Environmental Sanitation HDR Human Development Report Hlathi Hlathi Development Services, South Africa HSEYC Human Settlement, Environment & Youth Centre, India IASC Inter-Agency Standing Committee IBBK International Biogas and Biomass Competence Centre ICEE International Centre of Ecological Engineering, Kalyani University, India ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross IEES International Ecological Engineering Society IDSL Institutional Development Services Linkages, Bangladesh IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAT International Trade Fair for Water, Sewage, Refuse & Recycling IFOAM International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, Netherlands IRHA International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance IRS Islamic Relief Service ITAS Institute for Technology Assessment and System Analyses IWA International Water Association IWA-SG IWA – Specialist Group “Resource-oriented Sanitation (ecosan)” IWMI International Water Management Institute IWP India Water Partnerships IWS Institute of Water and Sanitation, Zimbabwe IWWA Indian Water Works Association IYS International Year of Sanitation Izwelethu Izwelethu Cemforce JBIC Japan Bank for International Cooperation JICA Japan International Cooperation Agency JMP Joint Monitoring Programme Jo-burg Water Johannesburg Water, South Africa

JWF Japan Water Forum Kanan Red Cross Sri Lanka KBMC Kulgao Badlapur Municipal Council, India KfW German Development Bank KRWSSA Karnataka Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency, India LeAF Lettinga Associates Foundation, South Africa LIFE Lien Institute for the Environment, Singapore LIU Linköping University, Sweden Meda-Water Euro-Mediterranean Regional Water Programme for Local Water Management NETSSAF Network for Development of Sustainable Approaches for Large-scale

Implementation of Sanitation in Africa NIE National Institute of Environment, India Plan Plan International PUVeP Peri-Urban Vegetable Project, Philippines Rotary Rotary International RUAF Resource Centre on Urban Agriculture and Food Security Sandec Department of Water Supply and Sanitation in Developing Countries SCOPE Society for Community Organization and Peoples Education, India SCRI Sustainable Cities Research Institute SDC Swiss Development Agency seecon Society Economy Ecology Consulting, Switzerland SEI Stockholm Environmental Institute SIAAP Syndicat Interdepartemental pour l’Assainissement de Agglomeration Parisienne SIDA Swedish International Development Agency SIWI Swedish International Water Institute SKAT Swiss Resource Centre and Consultancies for Development SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Science SoK Streams of Knowledge SPCB State Pollution Control Board, Karnataka India SSP Swayam Shikshan Prayog (Self Education for Empowerment), India STI Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel Switzerland SUDEA Society for Urban Development in East Africa Sulabh International Social Service Organisation SuSanA Sustainable Sanitation Alliance SVNIT Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat India SWH Swedish Water House SWITCH Sustainable Urban Water Management (EU-funded 5 year programme) TPU Tampere Politechnical University of Applied Science, Finland TTZ Technology Transfer Centre Bremerhaven, Germany TUHH Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany TUT Tampere University of technology, Finland UBS Union Bank of Switzerland AG UMB Norwegian University of Life Sciences UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNESCO-IHE UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation - Institute for Water

Education UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UN-Habitat United Nations Human Settlement Programme UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund Uni Beijing Beijing University, China Uni Cambridge Cambridge University, United Kingdom Uni Dhaka University of Dhaka, Institute of Education and Research, Bangladesh Uni Delft University of Delft, Netherlands Uni Egerton Egerton University, Kenya Uni Freiburg Albert Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg, Germany Uni Hohenheim Universität Hohenheim, Germany Uni Kwa-Zulu University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa Uni Tshwane Tshwane University, South Africa Uni Xavier Xaxier University Cagayan D’Oro, Philippines UNSGAB UN-Secretary Generals Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation Utthan PLC Utthan People’s Learning Centre Water and Sanitation Vanarai Vanarai Trust Times Foundation, India WASH Water Sanitation and Hygiene Waste Advisers on Urban Environment and Development, Netherlands WECF Women in Europe for a Common Future Wes Net Water and Environmental Sanitation Network India Wettech Water and Effluent Treatment Technologists, South Africa WHO World Health Organisation WHRI Water and Health Research Institute, South Africa WRC Water Research Commission, South Africa WSFF World Sanitation Fund Forum WSP/ WB Water and Sanitation Programme/ Worldbank WSSCC Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, Switzerland WTO World Toilet Organization, Singapore WTS World Toilet Summit WUR Wageningen University and Research Centre, Netherlands WWF World Water Forum WWW World Water Week, Stockholm 2008