page_title: Sustainable Sanitation Alliance
section_title: Overview
hierarchical_section_title: Sustainable Sanitation Alliance / Overview
caption_attribution_description: English: Group photo taken at the 13th SuSanA meeting which was held at the KIST in Kigali, Rwanda. Photo taken on 18 July 2011 by S. Blume
context_page_description: The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance is a loose network of organizations who are "working along the same lines towards achieving sustainable sanitation". It began its work in 2007, one year before the United Nations International Year of Sanitation in 2008. The intention of creating SuSanA was to have a joint label for the planned activities for 2008 and to align the various organizations for further initiatives.
  SuSanA has over 340 partner organizations and over 10,000 individual members. SuSanA's vision document contains a definition of sustainable sanitation which was developed by SuSanA partners in 2007. The discussion forum that is hosted by SuSanA performs like a Community of Practice.
  SuSanA is not an NGO. It has no legal structure and takes no membership fees. It encourages other organizations 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 for this task. Other SuSanA partners make contributions for example by paid time of their staff members.
context_section_description: SuSanA is dedicated to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, and in particular SDG6 (Goal Number 6) which is "water and sanitation for all". This is done by promoting sustainable sanitation systems. These systems should be "economically viable, socially acceptable, technically and institutionally appropriate, and protect health, the environment and natural resources".
  SuSanA is one of several knowledge management platform in the WASH sector such as the LinkedIn Discussion Group "Community of Practice on Sanitation and Hygiene in Developing Countries" by WSSCC (now defunct), Blue Planet, International Water Association (IWA), Akvopedia and others.
caption: SuSanA members at the 13th SuSanA meeting in Kigali, Rwanda in 2011
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