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3. Communication and DISSEMINATION<br />
On the following pages you will find a short overview of the communication platforms and technical networks which bring<br />
together various stakeholders with an interest in both WASH and nutrition. Joining some of these platforms could be useful if<br />
you need to keep abreast of the latest research trends and findings, access different online materials, participate in technical<br />
discussions, learn about different WASH and nutrition projects around the world and communicate about your own project<br />
experiences.<br />
Sustainable Sanitation Alliance - SuSanA<br />
The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) is an open and international network of members,<br />
who share a common vision on sustainable sanitation. SuSanA came into existence in early 2007<br />
and acts as a coordination platform, working platform, sounding board, and contributor to policy<br />
dialogues on sustainable sanitation. It links on-the-ground experiences with an engaged community made up of practitioners,<br />
policy makers, researchers, and academics from different levels, with the aim of promoting innovation and best practices in<br />
policy, programming and implementation. The overall goal of the SuSanA is to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable<br />
Development Goals (SDGs) by promoting a systems approach to sanitation provision, which takes into consideration all aspects<br />
of sustainability. Besides the SuSanA website, with its large online library, event calendar, 12 thematic working groups and<br />
regional chapter, SuSanA supports active dialogue through an open discussion forum where shared learning can take place<br />
and questions, answers, opinions and experiences shared among the community members. SuSanA meetings are held usually<br />
alongside the various working group meetings and offer an opportunity to exchange and network with sustainable sanitation<br />
enthusiasts.<br />
Sanitation and <strong>Nutrition</strong> is a strategic topic of the SuSanA Roadmap (2015-2018) and is addressed by the SuSanA Working Group<br />
12 (WASH and <strong>Nutrition</strong>). The SuSanA online platform offers various resources on this topic, such as selected publications in the<br />
SuSanA library, the full documentation of the WASH <strong>Nutrition</strong> Forum (Bonn, Germany 2015) and WASH and <strong>Nutrition</strong> working<br />
group on the SuSanA Forum in which news, activities and questions to do with WASH and <strong>Nutrition</strong> are discussed.<br />
http://www.susana.org/en/working-groups/wash-and-nutrition<br />
Emergency <strong>Nutrition</strong> Network - ENN<br />
The ENN is a UK registered charity. It was set up to improve practice and strengthen the institutional<br />
memory of agencies involved in the emergency food and nutrition sectors. Founded in Dublin in 1996<br />
by Jeremy Shoham and Fiona O’Reilly, it moved to Oxford in 2004. Through its support to networking<br />
and learning, ENN helps to build the evidence base for nutrition programming. Its focus is on communities in crisis, typically<br />
humanitarian emergencies, and where undernutrition is a significant chronic problem. ENN’s work covers both nutritionspecific<br />
programming, such as management of acute undernutrition, and nutrition-sensitive programming, which involves<br />
sectors such as social protection, agriculture, health, and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).<br />
The new ENN strategy includes a broadening of the focus of its activities beyond purely emergency contexts to contexts of<br />
fragile and conflict-affected States and countries with a high burden of undernutrition. ENN is playing an emerging role in<br />
embedded knowledge management in the SUN Movement and Global <strong>Nutrition</strong> Cluster.<br />
http://www.ennonline.net<br />
BABY WASH COALITION<br />
The BabyWASH Coalition is a group of organizations focused on increasing integration<br />
between WASH, Early Childhood Development (ECD), <strong>Nutrition</strong>, and Maternal New-born<br />
and Child Health (MNCH) programming, policy-making and funding to improve child wellbeing<br />
in the first 1000 days. Recognizing that there are many policy, attitudinal, and funding barriers to integration, it aims at<br />
leveraging collective strengths to break down these barriers and to make a strong case for the benefits and necessity of an<br />
integrated approach to achieving the SDGs. Launched in September 2016 for an initial period of 5 years, it works on increasing<br />
focus on advocacy, the development of integration metrics, and the suggestion of preferred practices for programmatic<br />
implementers.<br />
http://babywashcoalition.org/<br />
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