External resources

Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA)

SuSanA is a network of people and organisations who share a common vision on sustainable sanitation and who want to contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular SDG6. The SuSanA website – with its library, project database and discussion forum – is an important resource for anyone wanting to explore the possibilities of sustainable sanitation.

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The National Faecal Sludge and Septage Management (NFSSM) Alliance

The National Faecal Sludge and Septage Management (NFSSM) Alliance was established with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2016 to support safe sanitation at the national, state and city level. The Alliance is recognized as the collaborative body that drives the discourse of faecal sludge and septage management (FSSM) forward in India. The NFSSM Alliance in
collaboration with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) and the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DWS) has been instrumental in the passage of India’s first national policy on FSSM in 2017.

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Sanitation Capacity Building Platform (SCBP)

Sanitation Capacity Building platform (SCBP) is designed to support and build the capacity of town/cities to plan and implement decentralized sanitation solutions. The platform facilitates knowledge and experience sharing among cities on decentralized sanitation to accomplish national missions: Swachh Bharat Mission, AMRUT, Smart Cities Mission and Namami Gange Programme. The Platform supports the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Govt. of India’s focus on urban sanitation. It assists states and cities to move beyond open defecation-free status by addressing the safe disposal and treatment of human faeces.

SCBP is a knowledge platform on decentralised urban sanitation. With an overload of information on the SCBP website provides a library of important government orders and reports, training modules and advocacy documents on decentralised urban sanitation.

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