In the "Face-to-Face training session" the stakeholders will get a profound knowledge and awareness about sustainable sanitation, covering technical, environmental, social, economical, cultural and logistic issues. Two "Face-To-Face" training sessions of 10 days each will be accomplished. These will be intended for the guidance of three stakeholder groups:

(1) Governmental level: municipalities and local authorities;
(2) Multiplicators and consultants: NGOs, RTDs, related companies, journalists;
(3) Implementers and users: engineers, planners, and households.

Each training course will be prepared for an estimate of 30-40 persons, in which 3 different modules will be conducted.

This will be a 3-days training course with focus on the specific roles of the different stakeholder groups in ecosan implementation. The "ECOSAN FOR ME" module will contain the following introductory sections, each adapted to the related stakeholder group:

• Introduction and the background of sustainable sanitation


• On-the-market modules for sustainable sanitation


• Challenges of implementation and operation of sustainable sanitation


• Indicators and criteria for sustainable ecosan implementation


• Economic support schemes and institutional settings for sustainable sanitation


• Involvement of minority groups and women


• Best practice examples in India and other countries


• Next steps for ecosan implementation

This part is planned as a 7-10 days cross-institutional training, in which the different stakeholder groups will come together. This part includes all steps from problem definition, solution-finding among different ecosan options according to different local conditions, up to developing sustainable solutions for public-private-partnerships for the financing of ecosan projects. The training workshops will contain the following practical elements:

• Exchange of expertise and evaluation of local requirements, and best practices


• Improvement of capacities to identify, formulate, plan, implement, operate and maintain appropriate projects in a participatory approach


• Contact with real-life cases through study cases: (a) a public school, (b) slum-dwellers, and (c) middle income neighbourhood


• Learning about sustainable resource management with focus on closing the nutrient loops by interlinking urban sanitation systems with the production of fertiliser and soil conditioner for the use in agriculture and urban aquaculture.


• Improvement of capacities to formulate alternative models of public-private-non-governmental partnerships and other adapted support schemes and strategies for ecosan implementation.

During this last session the participants will be trained in how to establish and to consolidate a permanent exchange-, planning- and implementation platform for ecosan in India, including durable EU-Asia exchange and joint initiatives.