Partners - Sustainable Sanitation Alliance

Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association BORDA

BORDA e.V. (Bremen Overseas Research & Development Association) is a German non-governmental organisation, headquartered in Bremen with a network of local partner organisations in more than 20 countries worldwide.
Since founded in 1977, BORDA is active in the fields of poverty alleviation, sustainable protection of natural resources and the develops, implements and disseminates decentralised sustainable technologies and social measures for water, wastewater, energy and waste.
Currently BORDA is focusing on decentralized sanitation solutions for the poor in peri-urban and urban areas in Africa, Asia and Latin America. To increase access to improved sanitation, BORDA provides demand oriented service packages including decentralised wastewater management solutions (DEWATS) and decentralised solid waste management (DESWAM). BORDA has regional offices in Tanzania, India, Jordan, Indonesia and Mexico.
BORDA is mainly supported by the Federal German Ministry for Economic Cooperation & Development (BMZ) and the Hanseatic City of Bremen.

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Countries of Activity

AfghanistanCambodiaIndiaIran Islamic Republic ofJordanLebanonSyrian Arab RepublicWest bank and GazaLesotho

Projects

Developing Guidelines for Decentralised Wastewater Treatment Systems The development of National Guidelines was one key instrument to facilitate a focused dialogue, for knowledge management, to create awareness, acceptance and capacities. These Guidelines are a reference for more detailed legislation, standards and manuals

FSM Capacity Development for Dar es Salaam To facilitate knowledge exchange with the aim of developing an enabling environment for FSM in Dar es Salaam

INNOQUA (a Horizon 2020 EU-funded project involving 20 partners) To explore the treatment efficacy of selected nature based wastewater treatment systems as well as the potential for water re-use

Community Based Sanitation – SANIMAS Gambiran Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) in Yogyakarta City, Yogyakarta Special Province, Indonesia To assist local governments and low-income urban communities to plan, implement and maintain community sanitation systems of their choice

Kim Bang Hospital Wastewater Treatment Plant Decentralized Wastewater Treatment for Kim Bang District Hospital in Ha Nam province, Vietnam

Iloilo Mission Hospital Wastewater Treatment Plant in Iloilo City, Philippines To construct a decentralized wastewater treatment plant

Theun Hinboun Power Company Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Plant (DEWATS) To provide solutions for wastewater treatment for the operational staff camps, office and school of Theun Hinboun Power Company.

Bith Meas Primary School Small Wastewater Management System (SWMS) To build and operate small wastewater management system for Bith Meas Primary School in Siem Reap, Cambodia

Leh Faecal Sludge Treatment Facility To treat faecal sludge from commercial establishments which were polluting Leh’s groundwater

Devanahalli Faecal Sludge Treatment Plant (FSTP) To construct a FSTP for safe treatment and disposal of sludge collected in septic tanks and pit latrines in Karnataka, India

Nexus projects - linking sanitation to agriculture (Food production and settlement hygiene in poor peri-urban regions in India) To mainstream and scale up the practices established in Nexus pilot-scale interventions, and to share the gained knowledge and experiences with a wider audience

Strengthening the Operation and Maintenance Sector for Servicing Decentralized Urban Sanitation Infrastructure in Karnataka, India To support improved O&M services for decentralized urban sanitation infrastructure in one city in Karnataka.

Resources in SuSanA Library

Campbell, A. V. • (2020) Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) Rapid Assessment: Leh, India

LEDeG and BORDA have been working in partnership since 1987. Initially cooperation was focused on renewable energy projects which provided electricity to 67 villages through micro-hydro technology. The cooperation was later expanded to include a range of income generation activities such as food processing, handicrafts and food production. In recent […]}

Campbell, A. V. • (2020) Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) Rapid Assessment: Godawari, Nepal

ENPHO and BORDA have been working in partnership since 2004 to improve living conditions and to protect natural resources and climatic conditions in inadequately served urban and peri-urban settlements in South Asia. Concentrated in the field of urban sanitation, key achievements include technical support and scaling up of Decentralized Wastewater […]}

Sperandeo, L., Srinivasan, S. • (2020) The Heroes behind Sanitation

The sanitation workforce provides an essential public service to all. They clean and empty pit latrines, septic tanks, sewers and other sanitation systems, transport faecal sludge, remove contaminants from the sludge and process the sludge for disposal or reuse. Constantly exposed to faecal microorganisms, hazardous waste and harsh chemicals, sanitation […]}

BORDA • (2015) BORDA Symposium - Integrated Management of Used Water and Sanitation

The symposium responded to needs of action as identified during 2015’s World Water Forum 7 in South-Korea and 2015’s World Water Week in Stockholm. By linking actual experiences from implementation with innovative concepts of urban development, the symposium aimed ▶▶ to generate an input to the realization of respective SDGs and […]}

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