Sustainable Sanitation

Sustainable Sanitation Alliance

The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance aims to promote sanitation systems which take into consideration all aspects of sustainability. The main focus of their work is to promote sustainable sanitation systems in large scale water and sanitation programmes in keeping with the position that a sanitation system has to be not only economically viable, socially acceptable and technically and institutionally appropriate, but it should also protect the environment and natural resources. The Millennium Development Goals and the International Year of Sanitation 2008 (IYS), serve as platforms for this effort by pushing sanitation higher up on the political agenda along with concerns about environmental sustainability. A joint road map of sustainable sanitation activities for the IYS was developed in the meetings of January and April 2007 by participants from about 30 multi lateral and bilateral organizations, NGOs and research institutions. The roadmap consists mainly of a series of thematic working groups that aim to develop new funding instruments as well as sustainable sanitation capacity building and program initiatives.

To learn more about this Group please visit: www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org; or read the following document: sustainable sanitation alliance, towards more sustainable sanitation solutions.

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