Thank you for this Elisabeth.

A few comments I have

I dont see the need of having vermicomposting as a seperate category. Yes it is a different skill set but still falls under the category of composting therefore I would not make a different filter for it.

How about the following filters that provide more holistic perspectives? Particularly in the filter by kind of project?

• WASH in Schools
• Scaling-up
• What don’t we have a filter just on FS emptying too since we have one on FS transport?
• Would enabling environment also encompass institutional strengthening?

Many thanks and best regards,

Doreen

We are currently in the process of reviewing and improving the filter categories for the project database on the SuSanA website (a place where information about ALL sanitation projects of SuSanA partners and others can be filed and found).

We invite you today to give us your feedback about these filter categories by posting in this thread.

As a reminder: we started the project database in September 2013 and it is growing slowly but steadily. There are currently 266 projects listed there and we plan to double this figure in the coming year or so:

www.susana.org/en/resources/projects

This is how the filters currently look (sorry the second image is a bit small - you can see it bigger here when you click on the green filter button at the top right: www.susana.org/en/resources/projects ):






One suggestion that came from Esther and Diane is to have a separate category for "vermi-composting / vermi-filters" (currently it is part of the category on composting systems. This could be an option worth considering.

What are your suggestions for improvements of these filters? Or suggestions about the project database in general?


As a reminder about the project database:

If you work for an organization that has been registered as a SuSanA partner you can add your own projects to this database. The amount of detail you want to add is up to you - it can be a lot or not so much and rather include a link to your own website. The database just helps people to find out which sanitation projects are taking place and where.

If you'd like to add a project but don't know how to go about it, please contact me or the SuSanA secretariat at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or post in this thread.

Currently, as part of the BMGF grant to support SuSanA, Ruth and Esther are busy adding projects for WaterAid and Oxfam to this database.

Regards,
Elisabeth

Dear Sarah,
thank you for your helpful suggestions which we have in the meantime worked on.

About your Point 1 we have now added a green hyperlink to the top of the page which links to the page called "introduction" ( www.susana.org/en/resources/projects/introduction ). It explains clearly the purpose of the project database. If any of it is not clear, please let us know.

About your Point 2, we could not take that on board: We did not link the organisation's logo or the project title to the correct page on their website because this would be too much work for us to find the correct page for each project on the organization's website. If there is a project website, it can be found in the green hyperlinks below the project title. If not - for those few projects where we don't have more information yet - then they can easily be found with a search engine. However, quite often, for those particular projects no project details are given on the organization's website either which is a pity.

About your Point 3, I have spent many hours in the last weeks to give each project a short descrption (one or two sentences) which you can see directly under the project title of the project:
www.susana.org/en/resources/projects

The aim here was - as you had suggested - to provide people with a quick orientation of what the project is all about. I hope all my short project descriptions are good and clear (if not, let me know, particularly if it's your own project)

If anyone has further suggestions for improving the project database, please let us know.

And please also make sure that your own projects are included in the project database! To get your project inluded, just send a short e-mail to the SuSanA secretariat (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or to me (you can use the contact button on the left side of this post for that).

Regards,
milli (and Elisabeth)

This a really useful compilation of information on what's being done across a range of projects that would be hard to find elsewhere.
Some potential opportunities to improve the project database:

• It might be helpful to have the short description Trevor mentions about the project database at the top of the webpage to provide some context, for example:

"The aim of this project database is to raise awareness in the SuSanA community about the sanitation projects being done by SuSanA partner organisations. So when you visit the project database on the SuSanA website, you can quickly get an overview of the projects that are being conducted or have been conducted in the past. When you see something that really interests you, then you follow the links to the forum threads, SuSanA library or project website where more detailed information and contact details can be found."

Linking the title of the project and the logo to the discussion thread may help people find the project information

Some of the project titles are so short it is hard to get even a brief idea. Maybe a one sentence description of the main objective could be added to future projects descriptions

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Please try the new filter function here for the project data base quickly find what you are looking for!

You can now use one or more of the following filter categories:

• kind of project
• technology
• region and country
• setting
• reuse
• audience
• field of activity
• working group
• funding

The filter button, you find here:
Define your filter categories. You can use various filters at the same time.
With the regional filter, you can select a country (click on "Select country") or a region (click on the region and then "Apply filter").
After having set all the desired filters, you click on "Apply filter" at the botton OR the top of the filter section.
If you have any problems, don't hesitate to contact us!

For your information: the same type of filter panel has also been set up for the SuSanA library ( www.susana.org/library ), for the case studies ( www.susana.org/case-studies ) and for the partners ( www.susana.org/en/partner ).

Regards,
Jona

Dear SuSanA community,

The project database on the SuSanA website is growing steadily.

Check it out on this page on our website (filterable by many criteria):
www.susana.org/en/resources/projects

The aim of this project database is to raise awareness in the SuSanA community about the sanitation projects being done by SuSanA partner organisations. So when you visit the project database on the SuSanA website, you can quickly get an overview of the projects that are being conducted or have been conducted in the past. When you see something that really interests you, then you follow the links to the forum threads, SuSanA library or project website where more detailed information and contact details can be found.

If you want your projects to appear in the SuSanA project database, then please contact us at the secretariat so that we can make it happen.

All the best.
Trevor

P.S. feedback and comments as always welcome, just reply to this post!