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Contact person
For further information please contact:
Dr. Elisabeth von Münch
Tel: +49 6196 79-4221
Fax: +49 6196 79-804221
Email: ecosan@giz.de
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Recommended reading
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Making sustainable sanitation inclusive for persons with disabilities
This factsheet describes the challenges, scale of the problem, background, barriers which stop people with disabilities from accessing sanitation facilities, approach to sanitation system planning, technical adjustments for accessible toilets and additional costs.
giz2011-sustainable-sanitation-and-disability.pdf, 0.29 MB (English)
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Results of a Medium-Scale Trial of Single-Use, Self-sanitising Toilet Bags. In Poor Urban Settlements in Bangladesh
The objective of this study, which was carried out by GTZ (now GIZ) -Bangladesh within the Second Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement Project was to establish whether Toilet Bags (peepoo bags in this case) are a feasible sanitation alternative for poor urban settlements given the local socio-cultural context in the town of Mymensingh in Bangladesh.
gtz2010-peepoo-bags-bangladesh-trial.pdf, 1.44 MB (English)
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Overview of urine diversion components such as waterless urinals, urine diversion toilets, urine storage and reuse systems
This publication is an important contribution of the GIZ program “Sustainable sanitation – ecosan” as it pulls together scattered knowledge around the topic of urine diversion in a concise manner.
giz2011-en-technology-review-urine-diversion.pdf, 1.79 MB (English)
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BMZ Special „German Development Cooperation in the Sanitation Sector”, 2009
This publication of BMZ (the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development) describes the negative impacts of poor sanitation on health, economy and human dignity and thus a country’s chances for sustainable development. Principles and activities of German Development Cooperation in the sanitation sector are presented together with regional initiatives and project examples.
en-german-development-cooperation-in-the-sanitation-sector.pdf, 0.40 MB (English)
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Sustainable Sanitation Practice (SSP) Journal
This journal provides articles on sustainable sanitation aspects within its quarterly published issues. It is online available free of charge.
 www.ecosan.at/ssp, 0 MB
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Pathways for Sustainable Sanitation - Achieving the Millennium Development Goals, 2008
Summary of progress in the sanitation sector towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals, and role of ecological sanitation and sustainable sanitation. A. Rosemarin, N. Ekane, I. Caldwell, E. Kvarnström, J. McConville, C. Ruben and M. Fogde (SEI/IWA)
To order:
www.iwapublishing.com, 0 MB
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Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies, 2008
Describes available system configurations and contains 52 data sheets about technologies for sustainable sanitation with their advantages and disadvantages
Elizabeth Tilley et al., Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Dübendorf, Switzerland
www.eawag.ch, 0 MB
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Sustainable Sanitation in India. Examples from Indo-German Development Cooperation, 2008
This publication profiles contributions from the Indo-German development cooperation to India's efforts to provide sustainable sanitation. Editors: A. Panesar/J. Bischoff. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Eschborn, Germany.
en-ecosan-sustainablesanitation-india-2008.pdf, 1.71 MB (English)
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German Parliament held plenum debate about worldwide sanitation crisis, 2008
In a plenum session on 5 December 2008, the German Parliament discussed the global sanitation crisis, its dimension, options to overcome it and how Germany contributes already to the solutions. During the 30-minute session the ecosan approach was mentioned several times as an innovative contribution towards more sustainable sanitation systems.
en-german-parliament-answer-major-interpellation-iys-2008.pdf, 1.65 MB (English)
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Concepts for ecologically sustainable sanitation in formal and continuing education, 2006
This guideline provides support for academic institutes, training organisations and individuals in developing training and education material for ecological sanitation. A. Panesar, C. Werner, E. Münch, C. Maksimovic, A. Scheinberg, R. Schertenleib, P. Bracken and W. Gilbrich
en-ecosan-capacity-building-2006.pdf, 4.33 MB (English)
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WHO Guidelines for the safe use of wastewater, excreta and greywater
Vol. 1: Policy and regulatory aspects, Vol. 2: Wastewater use in agriculture, Vol. 3: Wastewater and excreta use in aquaculture and Vol. 4: Excreta and greywater use in agriculture. Volume 4 shows that safe use of urine, faeces and greywater in agriculture is a method to close the water and nutrient loop and can couple sanitation to increased food security. (World Health Organization)
www.who.int, 0 MB
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Ecological sanitation - revised and enlarged edition, 2004
Explains ecosan principles and their technical implementation. U. Winblad and M. Simpson-Hébert (SEI, Stockholm, Sweden)
en-ecological-sanitation-2004.pdf, 1.24 MB (English)
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