New SFD Reports
Explore the new SFD reports for nine cities around the globe. Discover them here!
SFD Reports in French
Read now the SFD Report for Ouagadougou, Douala and Yaoundé in French, here!
SFD Reports in English
Discover now the English version of the SFD Reports for Manaus and São Paulo, Brazil, here!
New SFDs Available
Discover the newly reviewed SFD Reports for Rishikesh and Panchgani, India here!
New SFD Reports
Discover 17 new SFDs from cities around the world. Find out more here!
SFDs at 'Reinvented Toilet Expo'
Bill Gates used SFDs to promote innovative sanitation solutions during his opening speech at the ‘Reinvented Toilet Expo’ in Beijing on 6th November 2018.
SFD WEEK
The School of Water and Waste (AAETI) together with the SFD PI will host the first SFD Week in Rajasthan, India from 28th to 31st January 2019.
Find out more here!
Welcome to the world of SFDs
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.
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.
Around 50 SFD reports are currently available. 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.
The SFD Promotion Initiative has developed a methodology and tools to enable the easy production of standardized SFDs by city stakeholders, development agencies and non-governmental organizations.
The SFD Graphic Generator is a quick and simple tool that allows the production of SFD graphics in three steps. Once you have the data for your city, you can easily generate the SFD graphic and download the results for reports and publications.
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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The SFD Promotion Initiative is managed by GIZ under the umbrella of the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA). Since November 2014, the initiative has been supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through two grants (2014-2015 and 2016-2018).
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
