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| VOL.1 ISSUE 1 January -June, 2009 |
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| Capacity Development for Sustainable Sanitation in India through Regional Nodes and Selected Pilot/ Demonstration Project | |
| Two day workshop was organized from 2-3
March, 09 on Capacity Development for
Sustainable Sanitation in India through
Regional Nodes and Selected Pilot/
Demonstration Project to promote sustainable
sanitation in urban areas as a response to
National Urban Sanitation Policy issued in
November, 2008 to tackle the sanitation
problems in urban India. The objective of the workshop was to promote Sustainable Sanitation through knowledge dissemination by establishing regional nodes and through selected pilot and demonstration projects. During the course of the workshop, concepts for 5 different regional nodes (Pune, Nagpur, Bangalore, Mamallapuram and Nashik) and 2 plans for pilot and demonstration projects (one in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and other under Indcare, New Delhi) were presented. The workshop leads to increased awareness on the mechanisms for provision of safe sanitation and environment-related services in different regional nodes in urban areas which supports the National Urban Sanitation Policy (2008). Read More: http://www.asemindia.com/Eventreports1.aspx?SubSectionID=0&SectionID=4&RowID=36&ta=1  |
Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) is a dynamic network of organizations working on joint road map for promoting sustainable sanitation systems and contributing to achievement of MDGs. It is motivated by the UN's decision to declare 2008 as the International Year of Sanitation (IYS), a number of organizations active in the field of sanitation decided in 2007 to form an open network on Sustainable Sanitation to support the IYS. Key issues addressed by thematic working groups are innovative technological interventions, productive sanitation system, community and rural sanitation, planning of sustainable sanitation in cities, capacity building, hygiene and health, food security, O & M, Gender issues, emergency and reconstruction situations, cost and economies, renewable energy, groundwater protection and climate change, business orientation, marketing and public awareness Reade More: http://www.susana.org/ |