SFD (Shit Flow Diagram) Promotion Initiative To continue development of an easy-to-understand advocacy, decision and monitoring tool - Shit Flow Diagrams
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
GIZ
The “SFD Promotion Initiative” is developing and promoting standardised tools for excreta flow analysis to inform urban sanitation programming. These tools build on the service delivery assessment and faecal waste flow diagrams (or Shit Flow Diagrams, SFDs) developed by the World Bank – Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). SFD is a visualisation tool that shows how excreta is or is not contained along the sanitation value chain.
Mission
Establish SFD as a widely recognised advocacy and decision support tool, which has the potential to shift the focus of attention, money and activities towards effective and inclusive urban sanitation and more efficient investments, thereby, improving the situation of all urban residents and environment. It is a relevant tool for advocacy and has the potential to trigger further and sustainable action when produced within the context of a project or a program and linked to planned investmentsApproach
The medium to long-term objective of the joint Promotion Initiative is a vibrant, interactive website that allows the independent development and upload of SFDs and wider elements of assessing the current status of sanitation services by interested city-stakeholders worldwide. Refined and tested manuals and software will make the open access tool applicable globally. The first phase (2014-2015) lays the foundations for the international roll out. Priorities are the development and refinement of the necessary tools as well as implementation procedures, quality checks and contextual research. Phase 2 (2015-2018) of this project aims at working closely with interested city stakeholders worldwide to ease the production of SFDs and build their capacity to understand complex urban sanitation problems through this tool.Results
During the first phase, the project initiated the dialogue on SFDs and their potential with city stakeholders both on the ground as well as via the SuSanA platform. The approach was tested in 50 cities worldwide and the results disseminated via the SFD web portal hosted by the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) platform (www.sfd.susana.org).External Website(s)
Answer questions about the project
Cecilia Rodrigues
cecilia.rodrigues@giz.de
Filter / Tags
Capacity developmentCitiesPublic awareness, advocacy and civil society engagement Political processes and institutional aspectsGlobalEnabling environment and institutional strengtheningFaecal sludge treatment processesBill & Melinda Gates FoundationUrban (entire city)JournalistsPoliticians and local decision makersPractitionersGovernment-owned entity (not university or research)
Related Countries
AfghanistanBangladeshBoliviaBurkina FasoCameroonEthiopiaGhanaHaitiIndiaIndonesiaKenyaMalawiNepalNigerPeruSenegalSouth AfricaSouth SudanTanzania United Republic ofThailandUgandaViet nam
Project location
