Perspectives are different frameworks from which to explore the knowledge around sustainable sanitation and water management. Perspectives are like filters: they compile and structure the information that relate to a given focus theme, region or context. This allows you to quickly navigate to the content of your particular interest while promoting the holistic understanding of sustainable sanitation and water management.
This paper provides a very good understanding of the CHAST approach with its development and tools.
DE VREEDE, E. (2004): CHAST “Children’s Hygiene And Sanitation Training” In Somalia. The Netherlands: School Sanitation and Hygiene Education Symposium URL [Accessed: 26.04.2019]Involving leaders: In order to raise awareness of the potential to use used toilet bags as fertilizer, demonstration plots were planted in Mymensingh Pourashava, Bangladesh. In one picture, a community leader from Kalibari community helps plant a lemon tree. In another one, the Mayor of Mymensingh Pourashava speaking to the Malgudam community after creating the demonstration plot. Both are pictures are from SuSanA on Flickr
Web page of the International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC) with several publications on water supply systems operation and maintenance.
A site containing more than 150 curricula to educate young people about water issues (English) - ranging from acid rain to wise water use.
This factsheet book is a compilation of 13 thematic factsheets which were produced by the eleven SuSanA working groups (WGs): WG1 - Capacity development; WG 2 - Finance and economics; WG 3 - Renewable energies and climate change; WG 4 - Sanitation systems, technology options, hygiene and health; WG 5 - Food security and productive sanitation systems; WG 6 - Cities and planning; WG 7 - Community, rural and schools (with gender and social aspects); WG 8 - Emergency and reconstruction situations; WG 9 - Sanitation as a business and public awareness; WG 10 - Operation and maintenance; WG 11 - Groundwater Protection. What makes these factsheets special is that they are multi-authored by people from different organisations and by free-lance consultants. The factsheets were developed in a long process involving many discussions and review loops which were mostly carried out in public, e.g. at working group meetings, with the working group mailing lists or, since July 2011, also in the open SuSanA discussion forum.
MUENCH, E. von ; INGLE, R. ; MBALO, D ; KAPPAUF, L. (2012): Compilation of 13 Factsheets on Key Sustainable Sanitation Topics. Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH URL [Accessed: 26.04.2019]Cuerpos de Conservación Mexicanos, A.C. Young People conducting Environmental Tracking and Assessment for Health in the Yucatan Hydrological Basin. Short article that describes the participation of youth in a water-monitoring program in Yucatan, Mexico.
This Australian water education toolkit provides hundreds of water education resources. The Toolkit can assist teachers and schools to access national, state, territory, regional and urban water resources.
WaterAid presents country information sheets, which are good teaching and research materials for both the classroom and the home. Development issue sheets provide information on water related issues in the developing world. They are equally readable for pupils and teachers alike and their glossy format makes them an invaluable educational tool.
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Case study of collaboration between the US EPA and the Earth Conservation Corps, a youth led organization, in protecting and cleaning the Anacostia Watershed in Washington DC, USA.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2008): Youth Lead Community Efforts Toward a Cleaner, Greener Anacostia Watershed. URL [Accessed: 25.04.2019]This website provides information on Solar Cookers International (SCI), an organisation that began a two-year pilot project in 2007 to increase water quality awareness and to introduce the safe water packages and portable microbiology laboratory to communities in Western Kenya.
A comprehensive Guidebook to Environmental Health that helps promoters, development workers, educators, activists and community leaders take charge of their communities´ environmental health. Published by Hersperian Foundation the editors of the rural health bible “Where there is no Doctor”
CONANT, J. FADEM, P. (2008): A Community Guide to Environmental Health. Berkeley, CA: Hesperian Foundation URL [Accessed: 25.04.2019]The factsheet gives an overview on issues which arise in school sanitation and hygiene education (SSHE). This includes situational analysis, the actors and their roles, gender and poverty-sensitive approach, elements of programme strategy and the key references.
On this website, some practical documents on multi-stakeholder work can be found, including many ideas how to prepare a stakeholder analysis, platform etc.
With its practical approach, this guide is very helpful for multi-stakeholder work in the water and sanitation sector.
COULBY, H. (2009): A Guide to Multistakeholder Work. London: The Water Dialogues (Editor) URL [Accessed: 24.04.2019]
This paper focuses on sanitation and hygiene education at the school level. It may be of relevance to practitioners and to academics who are working directly or indirectly on School Sanitation and Hygiene Education, for example managers and trainers involved in school programmes operating at the state, district or community level may find the paper useful and it may also assist teachers at the community level who are focusing on certain aspects.
SNEL (2003): School Sanitation and Hygiene Education. (= Thematic Overview Paper ). Delft: IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre URL [Accessed: 22.04.2019]