Overview of SuSanA

Trevor SurridgeSuSanA secretariat

GIZ

24th September 2012Den Haag, The Netherlands

www.susana.org

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What is SuSanA? Online structure of the SuSana Platform The SuSanA library Expectations and areas of collaboration

Overview

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What is SuSanA?

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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

What is SuSanA?

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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

How big is SuSanA?

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16 SuSanA meetings so far around the globe

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Online structure of the SuSanA platform

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Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/susana.org)

SuSanA Youtube channel (videos) (http://www.youtube.com/user/susanavideos)

Photos on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/gtzecosan/collections/)

Short messaging on Twitter (https://twitter.com/#!/susana_org)

SuSanA uses social media (Web 2.0)

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The SuSanA Library

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Filter Functionality in the Library

Summary of publication

Thumbnail and details

Bibliographic information

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Eight new case studies added in 2012 (www.susana.org/case-studies)

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Expectations and areas of collaboration

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Open source knowledge sharing principle Linking our knowledge resources Achieving better dissemination of knowledge to those who

desperately need it

Teamwork

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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Do you have any questions?

SuSanA Platform

www.susana.org

forum.susana.org

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Annex

Website and forum statistics

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90.000 visits (number of individual sessions)

About 30% of visits were to the library Average time on website: 6 minutes

Analysis of website use

Period: 13 May 2011 to 13 May 2012

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Launched in July 2011 Around 1600 registered users 27,000 visits to date (number of individual sessions)

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Start of statistic June 2008 Last update 14. May 2012 Boost in new memberships since forum is online (summer 2011)

Number of SuSanA members constantly growing

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More people are using their mobile to visit SuSanA

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