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Find guidance and support for creating SFD graphics and reports: the SFD Graphic Generator allows you to create your own SFD graphic for any given city.
New SFD Reports
9 new SFD Reports are available now
There are nine new SFDs (Chingola, Choma, Kabwe, Kafue, Kitwe, Mansa, Mahakali Municipality, Banepa Municipality, Jayaprithvi Municipality) accessible through our database now.
NEW SFD sanitation system drawings
Check out the new drawings on the SFD graphic generator- when selecting sanitation systems, you can now see what each of the systems look like and double check that it matches the situation in your city.
A BIG thank you to the artist James McKay of the University of Leeds for producing the drawings – we think they are great!
Please take a look at the page and let us know what you think?
SFD Reports
More than 200 SFD reports are available.
Browse through all the entries and read more.
NEW SFD DATA PAGE
The new SFD Data page is now interactive!
Check out the new page where you can compare SFD data from over 150 cities.
New Report available
The report "Managing Septage in Ganga Cities" is now available
SFD Promotion Initiative
Official launch of CSE's SFD Phase 3 activities
Discover the brochure of CSE's SFD Phase III activities. CSE officially launched their SFD phase III in India in collaboration with the Ministry of Jal Shakti, in South Africa, and in Bangladesh.
SFD Thinking
The first SFD Thinking are Online Now
Explore the new SFD Thinking and discover interesting facts, ideas and approaches on how to use SFDs.
SFD Manual
دليل المخطط البياني لتدفق الفضلات البشرية
The SFD Manual was translated to Arabic and can be downloaded from the SuSanA Library!
What is an SFD?
An excreta flow diagram (also often described as shit flow diagram, SFD) is a tool to readily understand and communicate how excreta physically flows through a city or town.
The fate of excreta produced by populations across the globe is often poorly understood. SFDs show how it is or is not managed as it moves from defecation to disposal or end-use. The SFD report presents the service delivery context of the city or town and the data sources used for the assessment.
Discover the SFD reports, training events and presentations across the world.
As sanitation practitioners and city officials recognize how effective SFDs are in engaging and stimulating dialogue on excreta management to achieve better sanitation, the number of SFDs being prepared all over the world is increasing.
Knowledge
Do you want to prepare an SFD? Check out the tutorial videos, FAQs and the SFD Manual.
The SFD Manual describes the process followed within the SFD Promotion Initiative for the production of SFD graphics and reports. It includes guidance on data collection and analysis on how to use the SFD Graphic Generator and the definitions of terms and variables.
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Consortium Partners
From 2014 – 2018 the SFD Promotion Initiative has been managed by GIZ under the umbrella of the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA), supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through two grants (2014-2015 and 2016-2018). Phase III of the SFD Promotion Initiative is being managed by the University of Leeds and the Center for Science and Environment, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through two additional grants. The secretariat of the SFD Webportal and Helpdesk are remaining with GIZ as part of the SuSanA secretariat.
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE); the Global Sector Program on Sustainable Sanitation of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ GmbH); commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Development and Cooperation (BMZ); the Department of Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development (Sandec) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag); the water@leeds research group of the University of Leeds (UofL); the Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) of Loughborough University and the World Bank Water Global Practice
The SFD Promotion Initiative (SFD PI) is pleased to announce the publication of 3 new SFD reports. Discover the new SFDs for Mandalay, Naivasha, and Tarija.
The SFD Promotion Initiative (SFD PI) is happy to announce the publication of 7 SFD Thinking. Explore them on our Worldwide page by using the filter "Thinking"!
The SFD Promotion Initiative (SFD PI) is pleased to announce the publication of 4 new SFD reports. Discover the new SFDs for Blantyre, Enugu, Kasungu and Itahari!
The SFD Manual describes the process followed within the SFD Promotion Initiative (SFD PI) for the production of SFD Graphics and Reports and includes guidance on how to use the SFD Graphic Generator. It was now translated to Arabic and is available in the SuSanA Library.
The SFD Manual describes the process followed within the SFD Promotion Initiative (SFD PI) for the production of SFD Graphics and Reports and includes guidance on how to use the SFD Graphic Generator. It was now translated to French and is available in the SuSanA Library as Manuel d’élaboration des SFD.
The SFD reports for nine cities were reviewed and published on the SuSanA Library. Discover now the SFD reports for seven cities in India: Bodhgaya, Bongaon, Buxar, Chunar, Gangaghat, Katihar, and Ramnagar. And don´t forget to also check out the SFD reports for Wa, Ghana, and Bilwi, Nicaragua!
Discover now the French version of the SFD Reports for Ouagadougou, Douala and Yaoundé! The reports have already been released in English and are now also available in French.
Discover now the English version of two SFD Reports from Brazil: Manaus and São Paulo. The reports have already been released in Portuguese and are now also available in English.
Discover two new reviewed SFD Reports from cities in India: Rishikesh and Panchgani. The reports have been produced by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and CEPT University.
Bill Gates used the SFD during his opening speech at the 'Reinvented Toilet Expo' in Beijing on 6th November 2018. The Expo was hosted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation together with other innovators, financiers and governments between 6th and 8th November to promote innovative sanitation solutions especially applicable in the developing world.
The Centre for Science and Environment is launching an online course on the preparation of Shit Flow Diagrams (SFDs). You can find out more on their website and apply by June 10th.
Watch the video (full version) on how the SFD was introduced in Indonesia and why the Indonesian government sees it as a useful tool to improve urban sanitation!
Meet the SFD Promotion Initiative at the World Water Week 2018!
Do you know what Shit Flow Diagrams are? Meet the SFD Promotion Initiative at WWW!
The SFD Promotion Initiative will be offering information and short inputs on SFDs every day at the SuSanA booth (no.44) throughout the week. You are welcome to stop by, share your ideas, learn more about the SFD Graphic Generator and the newly developed online training, get inspired by the most recent experiences using SFDs in India and ask the SFD PI any question you might have.
SFD Exchange at the SuSanA booth
Sunday, 26 August: 15:00 - 16:00
Monday, 27 August: 10:00 - 11:00and13:00 - 15:00
Tuesday, 28 August: 09:00 - 11:00 and 13:00 - 14:00
Wednesday, 29 August: 10:00 - 11:00
Thursday, 30 August: 12:00 - 13:00 and 14:00 - 16:00
Have you ever wondered how it would be to prepare an SFD? Have you started preparing your own SFDs using the SFD Graphic Generator? Or have you completed an SFD? Where do you stand?
We would like to offer you extra support, so you can either start preparing or complete your SFD and have it ready to be used in your processes.
Besides the continuous support offered by the SFD Helpdesk, during a one-month period we are providing additional effort to review and provide you with feedback on your work. This also includes a live Q&A session on December 4th, 2017. This session is the opportunity for you to profit from expertise in the SFD team and receive detailed input to your SFD.
We would therefore like to encourage you to submit your SFD to the Review Procedure during this time, as it:
offers you the possibility for having your work reviewed by peers, whose feedback can enhance the quality of its results;
ensures that SFD graphics and reports meet some basic criteria and are of high quality, and
enables you to have your SFD published on the SFD Portal, contributing to the better understanding of excreta management worldwide (http://sfd.susana.org/)
We are now providing an additional format to the three levels of SFD reporting explained in detail in the SFD Manual: the SFD Lite. The SFD Lite is a simplified reporting template that summarises just the key information underlying your SFD graphic.
The SFD team will be reviewing SFD reports submitted either by email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or via the SFD Helpdesk (submit an SFD online). So that we can review your work effectively and efficiently, we need to receive:
a draft SFD report using any of the SFD levels: Lite, initial, intermediate or comprehensive
SFD data as a json file (produced with the SFD Graphic Generator)
SFD Source Evaluation Tool
User’s check-list
Deadline for submission of reports within this extra period of review and feedback is December 15th, 2017.
Meet the SFD Promotion Initiative at the World Water Week 2017!
Do you know what Shit Flow Diagrams are? Meet the SFD Promotion Initiative at WWW!
The SFD Promotion Initiative will be offering 1-hour slots every day at the SuSanA booth (no.44) throughout the week. You are welcome to stop by, share your ideas, learn more about the SFD Graphic Generator, get inspired by the most recent experiences using SFDs in Asia, Africa and Latin America and ask the SFD PI any question you might have.
SFD Exchange at the SuSanA booth
Sunday, 27 August: 11:00 - 12:00
Monday, 28 August: 13:00 - 14:00
Tuesday, 29 August: 10:00 - 11:00 and 14:00 - 15:00
