Knowledge Materials

cewas Middle East focuses on strengthening the local capacity of water and sanitation practitioners and entrepreneurs in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine. We develop knowledge materials in English and Arabic to support our capacity development activities and provide tools for local and international humanitarian actors, local universities, local governmental authorities and NGOs already operating in the fields of water and sanitation.

Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management (SSWM) Toolbox

The SSWM Toolbox is the most extensive collection of knowledge around sustainable sanitation and water management. It compiles thousands of “best of “ instruments – be that technologies, methodologies, behavioural change approaches or planning tools – geared to optimise sanitation and water management intervention at local level all curated in an easy-to-understand yet comprehensive way. It honours the fact that there are countless ways to approach and understand sustainable sanitation and water management and offers its users different “Perspectives” from which to explore the knowledge around sustainable sanitation and water management.

The SSWM Toolbox is for you, no matter if you are a decision maker, an NGO or CSO desk officer, an industrial water user, a farmer, a student or simply a person interested in making water and sanitation more sustainable

SSWM in Humanitarian Crises Toolbox

The Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management (SSWM) Toolbox in Humanitarian Crises was developed by cewas middle east and its partners with the financial support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.

The SSWM Toolbox in Humanitarian Crises is designed as a knowledge platform for practitioners that are involved in water, sanitation or hygiene-promotion activities in times of humanitarian crises. With a special focus on the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) region, the platform contains over 170 bilingual (Arabic-English) factsheets covering hardware and software approaches for planning, implementating and sustaining water, sanitation and hygiene-promotion interventions in different contexts of humanitarian response (such as camps, prolonged encampments as well as settlement in urban and rural host communities).

Visit the Toolbox in English and Arabic.

Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies

The Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies, a compilation of appropriate sanitation technologies, was developed by Eawag to enhance knowledge and capacity in sustainable sanitation on a global scale.

The Compendium offers easily understandable information and facilitates decision-making on implementing sanitation systems and technologies. It is a great tool for engineers, planners, decision-makers, NGO’s and students who are working, researching or generally interested in sanitation. In the Middle East, the lack of information around alternative sanitation systems is significant. By translating the Compendium and the online version of the Compendium into Arabic, this one-of-a-kind resource platform can be accessed by hundreds of millions of Arabic speakers, who are looking for appropriate sanitation systems and technologies. You can follow us on our Facebook Page for future updates.

Integrity Management Toolbox

The Integrity Management Toolbox, co-developed by cewas and Water Integrity Network, supports water sector organizations like utilities, small and medium-sized enterprises and public institutions in making integrity a part of their strategic plans, business models, and daily practices to reduce corruption risks and improve performance.

The online IM Toolbox provides:

up-to-date and searchable integrity risks and tools
guidance on leading integrity change processes
new supporting materials and instructions for integrity management coaches
information on embedding integrity management approaches at the sector level

Visit the online Toolbox on www.waterintegritynetwork.net/imtoolbox