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Health and hygiene, schools and other non-household settings:

• Health issues and connections with sanitation 
  • Research on health benefits with improved sanitation
  • Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), intestinal worm infections (helminthiasis)
  • Determining helminth egg quantities (measurement techniques)
  • Antibiotic resistance, micro-pollutants, chemical pollution
• Nutrition and WASH (including stunted growth)
  • Research on WASH & nutrition
  • Advocacy for WASH & nutrition
  • Implementation of WASH & nutrition
  • BabyWASH
• Hygiene and Hand washing
  • Handwashing activities at school
• Schools (sanitation and hygiene in schools)
• Other non-household settings (e.g. hospitals, health centres, prisons, train stations, offices, work places)

Sanitation systems:

• Toilets with urine diversion
  
  • Suppliers of pans, seats or moulds for urine diversion toilets
  • UDDTs at schools (urine-diverting dry toilets)
  • Urinals
  • Urine diversion systems (includes UDDTs and urine diversion flush toilets)
  • Urine diversion systems in cities
  • UDDTs in mainly Muslim or Hindu societies
  • Urine storage or treatment
• Toilets without urine diversion
  
  • Arborloos
  • Composting toilets
  • Container-based, mobile or bag-based toilets
  • Innovations and research in toilet design
  • Pit latrines (simple, VIP, dual pit, pour flush)
  • Vermifilters for blackwater treatment, "worm tilets", "Tiger worm toilet"
  • Comparisons of various toilet types
• Faecal sludge management (FSM)
  • Faecal sludge transport (including emptying of pits and septic tanks)
  • Faecal sludge treatment
  • Pit or vault content research and feacal sludge characteristics
  • FSM planning tools, toolboxes and guidelines
• Treatment of wastewater, sludges, organic waste, excreta
• Anaerobic treatment systems (biogas sanitation)
• Centralised wastewater treatment plants and sewage sludge treatment
• Composting
• Constructed wetlands, soil filters and infiltration beds
• Decentralised wastewater treatment systems (anaerobic and aerobic), DEWATS
• Disinfection and other advanced treatment processes
• Septic tanks (conventional and upgraded versions)
• Vermifilters (or vermi-digesters)
• Various other technologies and comparisons of treatment technologies
• Public toilets, community toilets, shared toilets 
  • Public toilets in India
  • Public toilets at events or festivals
• Challenging environments, emergencies, reconstruction situations, resilience issues
  
  • Urban informal settlements and slums
  • Flooded areas, floating houses and high groundwater areas
  • Resilience and risk reduction
• Various topics of sanitation systems
  • Climate change and sanitation
  • Drinking water supply and treatment
  • Groundwater pollution
  • Odour issues
  • Sewers (conventional, simplified, condominium, settled, vacuum)
  • Solid waste management
  • Wastewater characterisation and mathematical modelling

Attitudes and behaviours:

• Behaviour change and user psychology issues
• Capacity development
• Community led approaches, for example community-led total sanitation (CLTS)
• Publications and webinars about CLTS
• Community-led approaches other than CLTS
• Public awareness raising
• World Toilet Day, World Water Day and other special days
• Wikipedia
• Advocacy and civil society engagement

Markets, finance and governance:

• Market development in action
  • Mobile phones, ICT for sanitation (Information and communications Technology)
• Sanitation as a business and business models
• Financing: tariffs, taxes, transfers
• Government as a driver
• Cities (planning, implementation, and management processes)
  • Cities sanitation planning toolkits and guidance publications
  • Shit flow diagrams (SFDs) / Excreta flow diagrams
• Monitoring and evaluation (M&E)
  • ISO standards
  • Learning from failure
• Global and regional political processes
  • Human right to water and sanitation
  • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), global sanitation indicators, JMP Monitoring

Resource recovery:

• Fertiliser, soil conditioner, production of crops
  • Urine reuse or infiltration
  • Phosphorus, the finite resource
• Production of insect biomass from excreta or organic waste
• Greywater, blackwater or wastewater reuse, irrigation
• Resource recovery from excreta, faecal sludge or wastewater
  • Production of biochar, fuel or electricity
  • Aquaculture
• Safety of reuse aspects, legislation, guidelines, policies

Equity and inclusion:

• People with disabilities
• Menstrual hygiene and health (MHH) or menstrual hygiene management (MHM)
  • Awareness and reducing taboos
  • Menstrual hygiene products
  • MHM in schools
• Gender issues
  
  • Female genital mutilation (FGM) and cutting
• Sanitation workers
• Inclusive programming

SuSanA working groups (WGs)*:

• WG 1 (Capacity development)
• WG 2 (Market development)
• WG 3 (Renewable energies, climate change)
• WG 4 (Sanitation systems and technology options)
• WG 5 (Food security, productive sanitation)
• WG 6 (Cities)
• WG 7 (Community, rural, schools, gender)
• WG 8 (Emergency, reconstruction)
• WG 9 (Public awareness, advocacy, civil society engagement)
• WG 10 (Operation, maintenance and sustainable services)
• WG 11 (Groundwater protection)
• WG 12 (WASH & nutrition)
• WG 13 (Behaviour change)

* These links shows all library entries that have been tagged as important documents for that working group (usually 20-50 documents per working group).