Training of Trainers (ToT) on "Preparation of excreta flow diagram (Shit Flow Diagram-SFD)" on 07-08 September 2016

Water Programme team conducted a Training of Trainers (ToT), under SFD Promotion Initiative. The training was held from 7th to 8th of September 2016. The purpose of this ToT was to endow the trainers with SFD tool working in the WASH sector. The aim of the training was to capacitate sector plays and have multipliers who could use SFDs as an advocacy and intervention tool in septage management to achieve SDGs. There were 22 participants from national and international organisations. Four international participants were from Kenya Water Institute (KEWI) and Water Aid Bangladesh. National participants were from National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA); Indian Institute for Human Settlements; CEPT University, Ahmedabad; CDD, Bangalore; Population Services International, Patna; CSTEP, Bangalore and a participant (Rank holder) from FSM online course conducted by Water Programme, etc. 

The training began with Dr Suresh Rohilla’s insightful lecture on SFD, its importance and the role it plays as an advocacy tool. Dr Mahreen Matto took an ice-breaker session on “How adults learn” which deals on how to make the training interactive by using a mixed method approach of not only having lectures but a complete package of lectures followed by exercises, case examples for sessions/modules. Mr Bhitush Luthra introduced the participants to ‘What is an SFD’ and ‘How to read it’ using few case examples of SFD prepared by CSE.  Mr Shantanu Kumar capacitated the participants with the methodology for data collection and report preparation along with an exercise on the type of data required and the source of data availability. Mr Anil Yadav shared the field experience from SFD done for Delhi, what are the challenges in collecting data and keeping a track of septage emptying business.   

First of its kind in Water Programme of CSE, we had a skype session through which Barbara Evans, Professor of Public Health Engineering, Institute of Public Health and Environmental Engineering, University of Leeds, UK took a session on the SFD tools. 

The impact of the training is that the international participants from Kenya and Bangladesh have showed interest and invited the team to their country to provide infield support to prepare SFD and/or to give a session on SFD.