Dear Dorothee and all,

I am just wondering if the "favorite readings" collected here for working group 1 should be about capacity development itself or about content? I thought they should focus more on documents that speak about how to do capacity development for sustainable sanitation, but I am not so sure now.

I took another look at the working group description (see here: www.susana.org/en/working-groups/capacity-development - by the way, this description might need to be updated a bit; it mentions the DVD but not the more recent activities of the working group).

The description is lenghty but I think perhaps the main aspect which sets it apart from the other 11 (thematic) working groups of SuSanA is this part:

Key considerations of the group are to foster knowledge management and knowledge sharing, to use open-source approaches for sharing of course materials, and to optimise the use of the opportunities offered nowadays by the internet for capacity development.

By the way, should't it say "open access" instead of "open source"? Actually I am not totally sure now what we mean of open source here in this context. Wikipedia defines it like this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source

Regards,
Elisabeth

P.S. Thanks for steering this process for working group 1, Dorothee. The other 11 working group leads were asked to do the same (by the secretariat) but I don't think they have asked their working group members yet. I hope that at least during the upcoming working group meetings in Stockholm, the working group leads could have a quick brainstorming to decide on the "top reads" for their working group. It shouldn't take too long to do and is anyway a dynamic process that can be updated every year or two (for example).

Here's just a quick reminder that more key documents listed by sub-category of the forum is available here (still not complete though; on my to-do list):
forum.susana.org/key-documents

Here they are:

1. WASH Human Resource Capacity Gaps in 15 Developing Economies
An Avoidable Crisis
By: International Water Association 2014

2. CITYWIDE APPROACH FOR SANITATION
A path for improving management of urban sanitation
By: USAID and Sustainable Water and Sanitation in Africa

3. Advocacy, communications and monitoring of WASH commitments
By: WSSCC

4. Septage Management Guide for Local Governments - A step-by-step practical guide to developing effective septage management programs for cities and municipalities
By: David M. Robbins

5. From Toilets to Rivers - Experiences, New Opportunities, and Innovative Solutions
By: Asian Development Bank

6. Integrating Behavior Change and Hygiene in Public Policy: Four Key Dimensions Lessons from the Conference “Beyond Infrastructure: Integrating Hygiene in Water and Sanitation Policy in Latin
America and the Caribbean”
By: WSP- The World Bank

Regards,

F H Mughal

Dear all
I have also got a input from CAWST about a great resources:
Delivering Effective WASH Training (DEWT) – it includes all the information needed to facilitate a workshop on Delivering Effective WASH Training to potential (or current) trainers.
You can acess it here: resources.cawst.org/collection/deliverin...ning-workshop-kit_en
Among others you can find the “Participant Manual” with the technical information in it, is a collection of briefs called “Trainer Essentials” – I’ve attached a copy.

This and all the other resources still wait for you vote here: doodle.com/p5epvmuzd4nqg9dy!
To suggest additional resources for the list, just reply to this thread!

Kind regards

Dorothee

Dear Mughal,

Thanks for uploading the files! In order to make it easier for people to look at them and make and to vote: could you make a selection of the most important ones and also provide the title and authors with it.
I then could add those additional documents to the doodle for online voting....
Kind regards
Dorothee

Some more here...

Dear Dorothee,

As desired, I'm attaching some publications here.


F H Mughal

Dear all

Thanks for your submissions. For the ones that have not yet voted: please submit your choice here: doodle.com/p5epvmuzd4nqg9dy - or send me an email!
Don't hesitate to suggest additional favorite readings and documents on capacity development for sustainable sanitation either here or via email.

Dorothee

I vote for-
Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies: ecompendium.sswm.info/
Thanks
Sujaya

Thanks Dorothee for posting this call here.
I hope all the other working group leads will follow suit, because we want to compile the top-10 key documents for each working group topic!

For people new to SuSanA, here you can find the 12 SuSanA working groups:
www.susana.org/en/working-groups/overview

We have also created key document lists for the different thematic categories of the forum. They can be accessed from the so called "front door" page of our forum:

forum.susana.org/

From there you have access to the key documents page:
forum.susana.org/key-documents

This is meant to be for newcomers to obtain a quick orientation.

Dorothee, you have listed some "documents" in your proposed list which are not actually documents but takes people to other websites, i.e. this one:
Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management Toolbox (SSWM): www.sswm.info
and this one:
Sustainable Sanitation for the 21st Century: www.sustainablesanitation.info/meny.html

This is not really in line with collecting "key documents" but it maybe opens up the question if one should also collect a list of "key websites"?

When I have compiled "key documents" for some of the thematic areas in the past, e.g. inclusion and disability, I created a list of both, key documents and also key websites, see here:
forum.susana.org/forum/categories/93-inc...usion-and-disability

or for example here for hand washing:
forum.susana.org/forum/categories/23-han...gory-on-hand-washing

For further inspiration on possible documents, you can also filter the SuSanA library for WG 1 as a filter function (see www.susana.org/library, then use the filter at the top right). This brings up these 87 documents:
www.susana.org/en/resources/library?vbl_...5D=&vbl_8%5B38%5D=38

Regards,
Elisabeth

P.S. The last one that you suggested (Worldwide list of ecosan courses by various institutions) is hopelessly out of date (last updated 5 years ago...). Also ecosan and sustainable sanitation is not the same thing as we have discussed in great length on the forum here ...

I suggest
Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies: ecompendium.sswm.info/

The compilation gives a deep insight in various sanitation systems, is globally applicable.

Banka

Thank you Tommy!

I actually also noted to add this on my list but forgot it in the last minute.

The recent report was also presented during AfricaSan3 and it will give us an excellent framework for the upcoming WG1 meeting in Stockholm.
The invitation will soon following with more details and the agenda, but please already save the date: August 27 2015!

Kind regards
Dorothee

Hi everyone,

I recommend a recent publication by the International Water Association, titled "WASH Human Resource Capacity Gaps in 15 Developing Economies"

www.iwa-network.org/downloads/1422745887...crisis-wash-gaps.pdf

This research report highlights the significant shortage of human resources bases needed to design, construct, operate and maintain WASH services. It also provides an overarching recommendation for the development of national capacity development strategies to ensure sustained, adequate professional and technical capacity.

Tommy