The Compendium of Solid Waste Management in Humanitarian Contexts is an exceptional collaborative effort of Global WASH Cluster (GWC) partners with contributions and thematic inputs from a multitude of international sector experts and organisations both from the humanitarian and development sphere. It has been developed and coordinated under the leadership of the German WASH Network with the financial support of the German Federal Foreign Office and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). 

We would like to gratefully acknowledge and thank all individuals and their respective organisations and institutions for their invaluable contribution the Compendium and its online version.

We would further like to thank the GWC and the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) and its secretariat hosted by GIZ for their continuous support throughout the process and for hosting the online platform.

Authors Team (alphabetically)

Lorenz Ewers (arche noVa), Robert Gensch (GTO), Sarah Hayman (Swedish Red Cross), Manuel Krähenbühl (SHA), Marta Kucharski (WFP/Logistics Cluster), Alexandra Machado (IFRC), Adeline Mertenat (Eawag), Dorian Tosi Robinson (Eawag), Farah Salem (IFRC), Sara Ubbiali (Eawag), Christian Zurbrügg (Eawag)

We would like to thank the following individuals for their invaluable contributions to this publication (alphabetically):

Alberto Acquistapace, Syed Yasir Ahmad, Gemma Arthurson, Andrea Bindel, Steffen Blume, Kaspar Bomatter, Pierre Burgos, Francesca Calisesi, Jutta Camargo, Sue Cavill, Beatrice Decker, Valeria Dell’Aquila, Amelie Dubè, Kit Dyer, Amro Elzoubi, Michelle Farrington, Fidelis Folifac, Ana Fonseca, Olmo Forni, Charel Frick, Max Friedrich, Toby Gould, Siobhan Grath, Masoom Hamdard, Miriam Harter, Céline Heim, Alexandra Höhne, Aline Hubert, Aimee Jenks, Ina Jurga, Najwa Kallass, Munyah Khaled, Johannes Kleinrath, Zoë Lenkiewicz, Clara La Rosèe, Maria Luong, Ignazio Matteini, Abubaker Mayemba, Alexandra Möckel, Peter Nebel, Muhammad Omar Qasmi, Sary Quirant, Bob Reed, Philippe Reymond, Johannes Rück, Natalie Rzehak, Helen Salvestrin, Tariq Shahrouri, Siegfried Stadler, Kanika Thakar, Elizabeth Tilley, Brigitte Tonon, Jozef van Mierlo, Saloni Vijay, Verele de Vreede, Rolando Wallusche Saul, Anne Woolridge, Maya Zaatar, Julia Zeilinger

Coming from the following organisations, institutions or networks (alphabetically):

Action Contre La Faim (ACF), arche noVa, Austrian Red Cross, Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association (BORDA), Catholic Relief Service (CRS), Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST),Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Engineers without Borders Germany, Eawag/Sandec, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH), Geneva Technical Hub (GTH), German Toilet Organization (GTO), Global Waste Lab, Groupe Urgence Réhabilitation Développement (Groupe URD), International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), International Organization for Migration (IOM), International Medical Corps, Oxfam, RANAS, Resources and Waste Advisory Group (RWA Group), Solidarité International, Swedish Red Cross, Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit (SHA), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN Habitat), United Nations Institute for Training and Research – Global Platform for Action (UNITAR-GPA), WASH United, Waste Netherlands, World Food Programme (WFP)/Logistics Cluster