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The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) is a loose network of organisations who are "working along the same lines towards achieving sustainable sanitation". It began its work in 2007, one year before the United Nation's International Year of Sanitation. The original intention of creating SuSanA was to have a joint "label" for the planned activities for 2008 and to align the various partner organisations for further initiatives. SuSanA's vision document contains a definition of sustainable sanitation which was developed by the SuSanA partners in 2007.〔SuSanA (2008). (Towards more sustainable sanitation solutions - SuSanA Vision Document ). Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA)〕 There are currently around 240 SuSanA partner organisations. All prospective new SuSanA partner organisations have to agree to it when they join. SuSanA is not an NGO (non-governmental organization). It has no legal structure and takes no membership fees. It is open to others who want to join and be active in the promotion of sustainable sanitation systems. The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance encourages other organisations to join the network and to become active members in the thematic working groups. The SuSanA secretariat is funded by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development which has commissioned the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) for this task. Other SuSanA partners make contributions for example by paid time of their staff members. SuSanA also has over 5000 individual members. == Overview == SuSanA's goal is to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to the Sustainable Development Goals after 2015 by promoting sanitation systems which take into consideration the five major aspects of sustainability, i.e. (i) health and hygiene, (ii) environmental and natural resources, (iii) technology and operation, (iv) finance and economics and (v) socio-cultural and institutional. SuSanA is one of several knowledge management platform in the WASH sector such as LinkedIn Discussion Groups, Blue Planet, International Water Association (IWA) Water Wiki, Akvopedia and others.〔Cranston, P. (2014). (Knowledge Management and Building Demand for Sanitation ). Final report from a consultancy assignment for Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) program, Euforic Services, Oxford, UK〕 Since 2007, SuSanA has held 20 meetings (the last one in August 2015). Each year one meeting takes place in connection with the World Water Week in Stockholm and a further meeting usually takes place in the Global South, where it is connected to another WASH event. SuSanA also organises side events, seminars and working group meetings in conjunction with other major WASH conferences. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sustainable Sanitation Alliance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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