The German Toilet Organization (GTO) in cooperation with WECF (Women in Europe for a Common Future) offers a training course on "Toilets for schools and public buildings in developing countries". The weekend seminar will take place in Iffeldorf, near Munich on 11th and 12th February. It is intended for NGO workers who want to develop their knowledge on sustainable sanitation. The course topics range from technical possibilities and socio-cultural aspects to reuse of human excrements.

Building up on this basic seminar, the advanced training course is going to take place on 3rd and 4th March in Berlin, in cooperation with WECF and GIZ. The course topics range from detailed information on sustainable sanitation technologies and -systems, non-technical accompanying measures, project examples, current planning approaches to capacity-building materials.

!ATTENTION! Courses will be held in German only.

Find more information, as well as course programs and registration forms here:
www.germantoilet.org/en/projects/trainin...tation-training.html
or see the attachments to this article (in German only).

The German Toilet Organization (GTO) offers a basic training course on sustainable sanitation. The weekend seminar will take place in Leipzig on 27th and 28th October. It is intended for NGO workers who want to develop their knowledge on sustainable sanitation. The course topics range from technical possibilities and socio-cultural aspects to reuse of human excrements.

Building up on this basic seminar, the advanced training course is going to take place on 24th and 25th November in Berlin. The course topics range from detailed information on sustainable sanitation technologies and -systems, non-technical accompanying measures, project examples, current planning approaches to capacity-building materials.

And we offer a brand new hygiene training course on 08th and 09th December in Berlin, with topics ranging from hygiene education, hygiene approaches and methods, hygiene promotion in humanitarian emergency aid to behavior change and more.

Find more information, as well as course programmes and registration forms here:
www.germantoilet.org/en/projects/trainin...tation-training.html
or see the attachments to this article (in German only).


!ATTENTION! Courses will be held in German only.

More information about past training courses for NGOs in Germany as well as the files of the presentations on sustainable sanitation are available for download and can be found at the SuSanA website.

Best regards,
Cecília.

The Seminars from GTO on sustainable sanitation are really worth to attend. Myself took part in the advanced course on 24th and 25th November and I was very impressed. The weekend offered chances to exchange experience and knowledge and also communicated a lot of details in several areas. The organization was excellent, lectures and interactions balanced quite well. Pictures taken at this seminar can be found under

www.flickr.com/photos/gtzecosan/sets/721...346/with/8224214358/

Thanks again to GTO! I can totally recommend their seminars.

Best regards,
Lydia

Due to many cancellations for our training course: "Hygiene Promotion and Behavior Change" we can offer some free places for this weekend.

The seminar will be held in Cologne from 23th-24th at the Malteser International Headquarter.

Abstract of the course:

"This two day seminar is designed to provide an introduction into the various aspects of hygiene measures and the challenges of the aimed behaviour changes in the sector of hygiene. Besides the implementation and the understanding the different factors in influence of the desired hygiene behaviour, various hygiene approaches and measures will be introduced through examples."

The topics range from different hygiene approaches (PHAST, CHAST, CLTS, CHC...) to important topics as Menstrual Hygiene Management and more.

You can find more information under this link:

dl.dropbox.com/u/16507450/Seminar_Ankuen..._Koeln_130211_ks.pdf

Hope to see some of you... and plz spread the word...

!ATTENTION! Unfortunately the course will be held in German only.

Iam interested in the Training programme but unfortunately it will only be offered in German.Please consider having an English Training Course. Thank you

Having just returned from an interesting weekend in Cologne where the German Toilet Org team held their course on hygiene promotion, I can also only recommend it and would like this training course to a) also be made available in English and b) be made mandatory for anyone who is active in WASH. You really get to learn a lot and will also have a chance to see (and touch) some of the recently marketed menstrual hygiene management (mhm) options:





MHM brands that were showcased include the Ruby Cup, AfriPads and the MakaPads. (ati, JaniPads iko wapi these days?)

I also had the opportunity to attend a GTO seminar in July 2011 which I found incredibly useful particularly since I attended it at a time when I was just starting to work for GIZ in the Sustainable Sanitation Programme. I would highly recommend it to anyone who works in the sector.

However it would be great if the course was also offered in English. That why, a broader variety of people working in WASH who are non-German speakers could also benefit from the courses.

@ Juergen: I also do not know what happened to Jani Pads. I wrote to them a couple of times but no response. I was in Naivasha two weeks ago and Emily from Sanivation asked me the same thing.

Thanks and best regards,

Doreen