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World Toilet Leaders Forum

Education is the most important thing for improving toilet culture. Without awareness, our goal of saving lives throughout the world cannot be accomplished. The main goals of World Toilet Association¡¯s educational programs are to show that inadequate toilet facility is a serious issue worldwide, to persuade people that improving toilets can save lives and to come up with collaborative solutions to toilet-related problems throughout the world.

The program consists of the special lecture related to toilet such as ¡ãThe methods of achieving UN SDG 6 ¡ãNew technologies and ideas related toilet ¡ã Future Toilet Trend ¡ãThe sanitation situation of the world ¡ã the importance and standard of toilet etc., the field trip that enable to benchmark the advanced toilet culture of Korea through site visitation and practices, and seminar that enable to disscuse the development and improvement of toilet culture through WASH case study.

Special Lecture
Seminar(WASH Case Study)
Field Trip
Post Tour(Toilet Tour)
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The 2nd World Toilet Leader's Forum was quite big compared to the first. Twenty-two participants from 8 countries (Malaysia, Cambodia, Palau, China, Nepal, Pakistan, Iran, and South Africa) have participated. Through training and field trip over 4 nights and 5 days in Suwon, the mecca of Korea's toilet culture movement, the opportunity of toilet benchmarking was provided. Also, there was the time to present the condition of toilets in each developing country along with sharing opinions.

In the 3rd Leader's Forum, 13 participants from 6 countries (South Africa, Australia, Iran, Malaysia, Bangladesh, and Cambodia) along with 46 local participants participated to exchange regarding toilets.

The 2nd World Toilet Leaders Forum

[Special Lectures]
1. Korea Ministry of Interior - Public Toilet Law
2. Suwon City Public Toilet Team - Administrative Support for Toilet/Operation of Suwon City Public Toilet Team
3. Haesung Engineering R&D Center - Eco-friednly/Toilet System in City for Water Save
4. Korea Toilet Institute - Toilet Culture Movement/How to Spread Toilet Culture and Educate Users

Lecture was also held and high satisfaction was acquired on the contents that were appropriate to the purpose of participants based on the 2014 survey.

[Field Trips]
1. Suwon Beautiful Toilet Tour(Awarded Public Toilet, Water Recyling System)
2. Namyangjoo Piano Toilet
3. Eco-friendly Recyling Toilet - Shin-heung Temple, Hwaseong City
4. Suwon Sewage Treatment Plant
5. Dalim Bath Industrial Exhibition
6. Royal&Co. Industrial Exhibition
7. Subway Toilet(Seoul Metro 5,6,7,8)

Through 7 field trips, the public restroom of Korea was introduced. Also, new aspect and experience were provided to the participants by connecting business by meeting persons related in corporations.

[Seminar]
1. Trevor Mulaudzi(Univ. of Limpopo, South Africa) - Sustainable Sanitation in Africa/Toilets, Sanitation and Hygiene in Afraca; Where do we stand in 2015
2. Tanya Khan(WSSCC, Pakistan) - Toilet Culture and Sanitation Status in Pakistan/Role of Women and Girls in Sanitation
3. Shervin Hashemi(Iran) - Toilet Culture and Sanitation Status in Pakistan/Lessons of Toilet Culture from Persia-Shilla Traditional Relationship

Through the presentation of each representative of each country, the current situation on installation, management, and maintenance of toilets of developing countries was shared. Later, participants shared about opinions regarding toilets of each country, future goals, along with the effect of Leader's Forum.

urthermore, there was the time to solidify the vision of World Toilet Association by discussing the execution plans for the next 5 years, board meeting to be held in Cambodia, and WTA Convention in Malaysia to be held on November of 2015.

The 3rd World Toilet Leaders Forum

[Special Lectures]
1. Seoul National University Green Bio R&D Center, PhD. Kihee Ryu - Water Resource and Sanitation
2. Seoul National University Sustainable Water Research Center, Mr. Yeonsik Kim - Homo+Toilet
3-1. Haesung Engineering Inc. - Multi-funtional Rainwater Harvesting&Reclaimed Water Integration System for Toilet Flush
3-2. Ecoway Co. Ltd. - Toilet Environment Imporvement and Saving Water
3-3. K-COCO - Non-volatile Automated Feces Cleaner
4. Korea Toilet Institute, Uihyeon Cho Director General - Importance of Toilet Education and Process of Development
5. Haewoojae-the Toilet musesum, Wonhyong Lee Director General - Mr. Toilet, Haewoojae and World Toilet Association

[Field Trips]
1. Suwon Beautiful Toilet Tour(Awarded Public Toilet, Water Recyling System)
2. Chic-kan(Toilet Concept Restaurant)
3. Suwon Sewage Treatment Plant
4. Dalim Bath Industrial Exhibition
5. Inus(IS Dongseo) Industrial Exhibition
6. Seoul City School Toilet Improvement Project(Gil-dong Elementary School)
7. Deokpyong Highway Resting Area - Smart Toilet
8. Haewoojae - Toilet Museum
9. Namyangjoo Piano Toilet

[Seminar]
1. Thomas Shbalala(South Africak, Univ. of Limpopo) - Urine Harvesting for Rural Commnunity Agricultural Development
2. Dr. Indra Karan T. Karthigesu(Malaysia) - Good Practices in Using Public Toilets - Public and Private Partnership
3. Azahar Ali Pramanik(Bangladesh NGO SPACE) - WASH Movement in Bangladesh
4. Pramjit Singh Sekhon(Malaysia) - Creating Health and Safety Measures for Workers Engaged in Public Toilets
5. Hor Sopharun(Cambodia) - WASH Movemnet in Cambodia and WTA Projects
6. Thok Sokhom(Cambodia) - The 3rd WTA General Assembly and Int'l Toilet Conference