ANNOUCEMENT: Given the many requests, the call for Scientific Papers for the NETSSAF Conference will be re-opened!!!

Papers within the scope of the conference will be welcome. Authors should submit an abstract of about 1,000 words (2 pages) to the Mr. Christopher Buzie, before April 30th 2008. All abstracts should be typewritten in English or French. An international Programme Committee will review the abstracts.

The contributions should focus on the following topics:

•  Human resources development
• Capacity building at all levels to prepare for a large scale implementation programme.
• Institutional and organisational frameworks
• Financial and economic approach
• Scaling up
• The different roles for communities and households
• Sustainable sanitation and gender aspects
• Sustainable sanitation in education and training centres
• Hygiene Promotion
• Practical examples from the field
• How to interface key actors/stakeholders in the localities to efficiently promote hygiene and sanitation
• Sanitation marketing
• Sanitation options
• Formulation of national sanitation strategies
• Sustainable sanitation in the context of decentralisation and de concentration
• Non-Conventional Wastewater Treatment Systems, Concepts and Technologies
• Eological/Environmental/Sustainable Sanitation (source control, separation systems, reuse systems, closed loop sanitation systems, etc.)
• Function of sanitation system
• Agro-reuse/crop production
• Drivers and constraints
• Case studies
• Sustainable sanitation for cities
• Sustainable sanitation, renewable energies and climate change
• Food security and productive sanitation systems
• Public awereness and sanitation marketing
• Political lobbying

 

More information will be given in the next days!

 

Please contact Mr. Christopher Buzie for more details: christopher.buzie-fru@tuhh.de