SSWM Toolbox: a year older
2011/03/11

The SSWM Toolbox celebrates its first birthday and treats itself to a USER SURVEY!

The Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management Toolbox (www.sswm.info) is an open-source capacity development tool for the local level, linking water management, sanitation and agriculture. Focussing on the human influence on the water and nutrient cycle, it presents solutions for a sustainable use, treatment and reuse of water resources.

The Toolbox aims at capacitating people not only with knowledge, but also with application skills. It provides both help in project planning and implementation, focuses on technologies (hardware) and behavioural change approaches (software), and compiles the relevant further readings, links, exercises etc. for each topic. In that way, it is not a reinvention of the wheel, but the long needed overview on the host of approaches and technologies in the water and sanitation sector. The Toolbox contains also a large library, a glossary, a Train-the-Trainer's section topped by downloadable and adjustable PowerPoint presentations on specific topics. It is open source and for free – but quality approved. Today, the Toolbox is used as online resource for both, learning and teaching. This concept is coupled with training courses and workshops based on a worldwide network.

On 1 November, the Toolbox celebrated its first birthday. This is a very special  moment for us all: not only have we reached our 100,000th visitor in October, but we can also announce that the Toolbox has won the IWA Project Innovation Award!

For this special occasion, the Toolbox treats itself and you all to a user survey. Have a look and give us your feedback now: www.sswm.info