Stockholm Environment Institute is an independent research institute sorted under the Swedish Ministry of Sustainable Development with 100 employees in offices in Sweden, UK, Estonia, US and Thailand and 500 contracted organizations working within networked projects in developing countries. SEI cover has six programmes covering water and sanitation, climate and energy, risk and vulnerability, policy and institutions, implementation of sustainable development and atmospheric environment. SEI manages (since 2001) the global EcoSanRes Programme funded by Sida which deals with communications and networking, R&D, guidelines and implementation in full scale pilot projects. EcoSanRes which is a networked programme involving some 25 chief partners and dozens of sub-partners is involved in ecosan projects in West Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa, West Africa, South Asia and East Asia. SEI will continue to manage and expand the EcoSanRes Programme in Phase 2 which runs from 2006 to 2010 emphasizing capacity building and regional expert node development in the south. SEI has recently written the report Sustainable Pathways to Attain the Millennium Development Goals: Assessing the Role of Water, Energy and Sanitation which was presented at the Sept 2005 UN Summit in New York (available from www.ecosanres.org).

Work Package 4, Identification of potential sustainable sanitation technologies, will be under the supervision of SEI due to their great experience in providing sanitation based on conventional and innovative approaches in rural areas of developing countries, particularly in Africa. Additionally they will lead the assesment of existing low cost conventional sanitation options in Work Package 3. The mapping of current research, among several other tasks, will receive the support of SEI. Jointly with EAWAG, they will publish at least one article regarding the WP3 (Sanitation Technologies Assessment).

Dr. Arno ROSEMARIN
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