The kick-off meeting aims to bring together professionals, researchers, and enthusiasts interested in advancing sanitation in cold climates. This interactive session will help us get to know each other, understand the interests and needs of our new community, and shape the format for future exchanges and collaborations.
This second session will include activities aimed at debriefing on your audit activity, exploring common challenges that may arise in conducting MFPT audits, and presenting guidance on how to analyze the data.
Two Time Slots: 10:00-11:00 CET (English/French) & 16:00-17:00 (English/Spanish)
This online session is designed to provide an overview of the toolkit and MFPT audit tool to equip you with the basic knowledge and skills necessary to conduct toilet audits. At the end of Workshop 1, you will be asked to try using the audit tool during the week before Workshop 2.
Two Time Slots: 10:00-11:00 CET (English/French) & 16:00-17:00 (English/Spanish)
Period Posse Presents: Join us for an exciting interactive masterclass will that focus on the process for getting started to promote uptake of MHH indicators in new countries, common themes or ingredients of success, and pathways for how strengthened monitoring can support improved Menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) for adolescent girls.
The course will enable participants to plan, design and evaluate systematic behaviour change campaigns based on the RANAS approach. The participants will learn how to conduct a quantitative survey measuring relevant behavioural factors, how to identify the required behaviour change techniques and how to verify their effectiveness. The course will be based on a comprehensive revision of the Ranas approach and includes several new tools. The course consists of four meetings (01.04/03.04/08.04/10.04) - more information below.
Two Time Slots: 09:00-10:00 CET (English/French) & 16:00-17:00 (English/Spanish)
Join World Data Lab (WDL) and GIZ for the launch of the Water Crisis Clock (WCC), a groundbreaking tool designed to highlight the urgency of global water scarcity.
The German Jordanian University (GJU), in collaboration with the German WASH Network/German Toilet Organization (GWN/GTO) and SuSanA, is hosting a free webinar series on the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus in WASH. This two-part series will explore how WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) can bridge humanitarian response, long-term development, and peacebuilding efforts to create sustainable, climate-sensitive, and locally driven solutions.
The German Jordanian University (GJU), in collaboration with the German WASH Network/German Toilet Organization (GWN/GTO) and SuSanA, is hosting a free webinar series on the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus in WASH. This two-part series will explore how WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) can bridge humanitarian response, long-term development, and peacebuilding efforts to create sustainable, climate-sensitive, and locally driven solutions.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) and Siemens Stiftung invite you to a webinar on our new “Academy for Impact” learning portal. The webinar will showcase female social entrepreneurs from Africa and Europe innovating in menstrual health and present recent research.
Two Time Slots: 09:00-10:00 CET (English/French) & 16:00-17:00 (English/Spanish)
Call for Proposal: This session (at RGS IBG Conference to be held in Aug at Birmingham, UK ( 27-29 Aug 2025 that is organised by University of Bradford and Lancaster University) builds on a forthcoming publication series by IWA Publishing on this theme. Selected contributions to this session will ‘visualise’ how their work interacts with and transforms the understanding of the community (broadly defined) in real/ proximate time. Visualisation could be artistic, analytic, or narrative. Authors will have an opportunity to publish in the IWA series.
Join this interactive virtual learning exchange to explore innovative sanitation solutions tailored to the unique challenges of the Amazon region. Hear from experts and organizations working alongside Indigenous and rural communities to design context-specific systems that protect both human health and the delicate ecosystem of the Amazon. Register to gain practical insights into the planning, implementation, and community engagement strategies necessary for sustainable sanitation projects. You’ll also connect with peers across Latin America and the Caribbean. Delivered in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Participe deste intercâmbio virtual de aprendizagem interativo para explorar soluções de saneamento inovadoras adaptadas aos desafios únicos da região amazônica. Ouça especialistas e organizações que trabalham junto a comunidades indígenas e rurais para projetar sistemas específicos para cada contexto que protejam a saúde humana […]
Schools are more than places to learn—they shape a child’s future. Yet, for millions of children worldwide, this critical environment is undermined by something as simple as access to a basic toilet. Globally, 427m children go to school each day without a toilet that they can use. Unfortunately, the issue is not only whether schools have toilets. The reality is that 205m children attend schools where toilets exist but are unusable—these toilets are lost to neglect and children suffer as a result. This is a hidden phenomenon known as “Toilet Loss”, and it is happening in schools all over the world. The second year of this research programme, covering 65% of the world’s school-aged children, reveals that 14% of school toilets that exist today have fallen […]
Join us for an informative and interactive session aimed at advancing safe, dignified, and time-saving solutions for pit emptying in East Africa. Over the past 18 months, Opero Services has actively explored faecal sludge management in Kenya and Uganda, identifying a strong need for accessible onsite sanitation technologies. We have extensively tested the Pu Pu pump by Practica, engaged with the Gulper from Uganda, and are now evaluating the Pitvaq.
With the worlds largest sanitation programme the Swacch Bharat Mission , launched on August 15th 2014 Indias sanitation landscape has seen tremendous change in the last 10 years . Experiences are coalescing and new challenges being addressed . Large scale government led assistance through the Namami Gange, AMRUT , Smart City Missions have focused on improving sanitation outcomes. From the twin pit toilet, the steeply sloping Indian WC pan to state of the art wastewater treatment plants which can recycle sewage to drinking water all technologies are at play in the sanitation sector. Decentralized wastewater treatment systems , Ecosan, Sustainable Sanitation , Faecal Sludge Treament Plants, Faecal Sludge management, scheduled desludging , Reinvented toilets, Shit Flow Diagrams , City Wide Inclusive Sanitation and circular […]
Join us at COP29 on Friday 15 November from 6pm to 8pm for a special side-event screening of the Holy Shit movie, which will take place outside the official programme in a relaxed, informal evening setting. After a busy day, unwind with this captivating documentary by director Rubén Abruña, which explores innovative solutions to global water and fertiliser shortages. The film takes viewers on a journey through 16 cities around the world, showing practical ways to turn sewerage and human waste into a sustainable resource, combat climate change and improve food security. At the end of the film, there will be a Q&A session with Abruña himself.
This exclusive screening will take place on Thursday, November 14th, 2024 14:00-16:30 in Berlin (Arsenal Cinema, Potsdamer Str. 2), in cooperation with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) – and as partner of the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA).
