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NETSSAF is a Coordination Action funded by the European Commission within the 6th framework programme, starting in June 2006 with a total duration of 2,5 years. The consortium is composed of 19 partners from 12 different West Africa and European nations: Austria, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Finland, Germany, Ghana, Mali, Senegal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom, who have different expertise in the fields of sustainable sanitation and rural development.
A sustainable sanitation expert and research co-ordination platform, and an expertise network, will be established in order to co-ordinate, assess and guide suitable research and strategic activities with the aim of identifying best practices, gaps in knowledge and barriers to further execution, and to propose directions for futures research.
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The website is available in two languages (english and french) and has a secured area that is just accessable by members. Within this section all internal documents can be uploaded and downloaded by the partners. Furthermore a chat as realtime communication module and a forum have been implemented. To make decentralised communication possible a large userlist for all NETSSAF partners has been created. All contact data and user-specific documents as well as CVs are stored within this database and shown in the web application.
One of the important parts is the „Public library“. Here lot's of information and documents are shown. To assure a good usability lots of useful modules has been implemented - e.g. page-breaks and link list.
The project NETSSAF is highly international - as shown with 19 partners from 12 countries – and organizes events. These events are handled within the website with a news and event extension very easily.
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