SuSanA is a dynamic network of organizations working to promote sustainable sanitation systems. It has 191 partner organizations and over 1,600 individual members who participate in online discussions. The organization shares information through its website, discussion forum, and an online library containing publications, reports, and case studies. SuSanA uses social media platforms and aims to collaborate with other groups to better disseminate knowledge and achieve its goals of improving global sanitation.

1. Overview of SuSanA
Trevor Surridge
SuSanA secretariat
www.susana.org GIZ
24th September 2012
Den Haag, The Netherlands

2. Overview
 What is SuSanA?
 Online structure of the SuSana Platform
 The SuSanA library
 Expectations and areas of collaboration
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3. What is SuSanA?
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4. What is SuSanA?
 SuSanA is a dynamic network of organisations working along
the same lines towards sustainable sanitation
 Goal: to contribute to the achievement of the MDGs by
promoting sanitation systems which take into consideration all
five of the SuSanA sustainability criteria:
 health and hygiene
 environmental and natural resources
 technology and operation
 finance and economics
 socio-cultural and institutional (SuSanA vision document, 2007)
 SuSanA has agreed on the vision document 2007
 All partnering organisations contribute their work and resources
on their own expense
 SuSanA currently has 11 thematic working groups
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5. How big is SuSanA?
 191 partner organisations
 1600 individual members = people registered for the discussion
forum)
 SuSanA reach:
 8000* unique monthly visitors to the website
 2200* individual forum sessions per month
 1500 forum digest subscribers
 3000 Newsmail subscribers
 1600 Facebook fans
 450 Twitter followers
* These figures are averages for the past 12 month period
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6. 16 SuSanA meetings so far around the globe
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7. Online structure of the SuSanA platform
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15. SuSanA uses social media (Web 2.0)
Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/susana.org)
Photos on Flickr
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/gtzecosan/collections/)
SuSanA Youtube channel (videos)
(http://www.youtube.com/user/susanavideos)
Short messaging on Twitter
(https://twitter.com/#!/susana_org)
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16. The SuSanA Library
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18. Filter Functionality in the Library
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19. Summary of publication
Thumbnail and details
Bibliographic information

20. Eight new case studies added in 2012 (www.susana.org/case-studies)
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21. Expectations and areas of collaboration
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22. Teamwork
 Open source knowledge sharing principle
 Linking our knowledge resources
 Achieving better dissemination of knowledge to those who
desperately need it
Who is SuSanA?
 SuSanA is its partner organisations
 SuSanA is its individual members
 Hence the adaption and leveraging of the SuSanA platform to
better serve the needs of the WASH information consortium
which consists of partners and members is a definite area of
collaboration
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23. Do you have any questions?
SuSanA Platform
www.susana.org
forum.susana.org
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24. Annex
Website and forum statistics
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25. Analysis of website use
 90.000 visits (number of individual sessions)
 About 30% of visits were to the library
 Average time on website: 6 minutes
Period: 13 May 2011 to 13 May 2012
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26. Discussion forum - visits
 Launched in July 2011
 Around 1600 registered users
 27,000 visits to date (number of individual sessions)
4,000.000
3588
3,500.000
3,000.000
2688 2667
2598 2550
2,500.000 2407
2214 2169
2,000.000
1574 1609 1622
1,500.000
1087
1,000.000
500.000
0.000
Jul 11 Aug 11 Sep 11 Oct 11 Nov 11 Dec 11 Jan 12 Feb 12 Mar 12 Apr 12 May 12 Jun 12
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27. Number of SuSanA members constantly
growing
 Start of statistic June 2008
 Last update 14. May 2012
 Boost in new memberships since forum is online (summer 2011)
1800
1600
Start of discussion forum
1400
Number of members
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0
Jun 2008 Dec 2008 Jul 2009 Jan 2010 Aug 2010 Feb 2011 Sep 2011 Apr 2012 Oct 2012
SuSanA members (until the end of each year, if applicable)
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28. More people are using their mobile to visit
SuSanA
450
Visits from mobiles
426
400
361
350
334
300 302
261
250
230
200 212
184
183
150
100 98
81
50
25
0
Aug 11 Sep 11 Oct 11 Nov 11 Dec 11 Jan 12 Feb 12 Mar 12 Apr 12 May 12 Jun 12 Jul 12
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