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Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA)

Motivated by the UN's decision to declare 2008 as the International Year of Sanitation (IYS), a number of organisations active in the field of sanitation decided in 2007 to form an open network on Sustainable Sanitation to support the IYS

Goal and objectives of the SuSanA
  • contribute to the achievement of the MDGs by promoting sanitation systems which are taking into consideration all aspects of sustainability
  • raising awareness of what sustainable sanitation solutions are and promoting them on a large scale
  • highlighting the key role of sanitation for achieving a whole series of MDGs showing how sustainable sanitation systems should be planned with the participation of all stakeholders and go hand in hand with hygiene promotion
  • aiming at a paradigm shift in sanitation by the promotion of reuse oriented sanitation approaches without compromising health
Urgency for action in the sanitation sector
  • globally some 2.6 billion people without access to any kind of improved sanitation
  • 2.2 million deaths caused by sanitation-related diseases and poor hygienic conditions
  • most affected group: children under the age of 5
  • progress towards the MDG in sanitation is much to slow, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia
  • sanitation rarely receives the required attention and priority by politicians and civil society alike despite its key importance on many other sectors and for achieving most of the MDGs
  • the political will has been largely lacking when it comes to place sanitation high on the international development agenda)
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Please note that this is just an interim website which is partly under construction until the SuSanA website is officially launched within the next few weeks. Thank You!