Supporters & Partners

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has funded projects in over 140 countries. In developing countries WASH and in particular sustainable sanitation services are important areas of focus. In emergency response the BMGF has a particular focus in strengtheing the capacity of emergency responders, including the development of innovative tools and technologies. The BMGF supports the GTO and international project partners in the development of the Humanitarian Sanitation Hub.

Bread for the World – Protestant Development Service is the globally active development and relief agency of the Protestant Churches in Germany. They fund among others policy work, public relations and education work in Germany and Europe and supports the GTO in its development education program "Toiletized World"

Engagement Global - Service für Entwicklungsinitiativen implements the BMZ´s development information and education programmes. Engagement Global funds GTO´s school project "Toiletized World" as well as the WASH related training courses for non-governmental organizations in Germany.

The Federal Foreign Office of Germany is responsible for German humanitarian aid. It has been supporting GTO in various projects since 2013. To date, close cooperation took place while developing the German strategy for humanitarian WASH assistance. Since 2015, this strategy has been implemented jointly with the German WASH Network.

The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development is responsible for the development policy and cooperation of the Federal Republic of Germany. Since 2009, the GTO has been funded by the BMZ in various projects. These include the WASH seminars, which the GTO offers in Germany, the development education project “Toiletised World” and the “Toilets Making the Grade” school competitions, which the GTO implements together with the GIZ in Uganda and Pakistan.

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) is a German development agency. It sees itself as a service provider of international cooperation for sustainable development and international educational work. The GTO cooperates with GIZ in two school projects on the subject of WASH in Jordan, Pakistan and Uganda.

Knorr-Bremse Global Care (KBGC) is a charitable organization that supports people who have suffered from environmental disasters, accidents, armed conflict, poverty or disease through no fault. Thanks to KBGC, GTO was able to develop its hygiene promotion materials My Healthy Friends and My School Loo. Since 2018, KBGC has been supporting our Toiletten machen Schule® competitions in Germany and Toilets Making the Grade® abroad.

The State Office for Developmental Cooperation Berlin (LEZ) is the central coordination office for development cooperation in Berlin. Within the framework of its country competencies, it concentrates on domestic development work and sees global learning as one of its fields of action. LEZ supports GTO's "Toiletized World" school project.

Stifter-Helfen.de is an online portal for IT donations. The GTO thanks Stifter-Helfen.de among other things for the mediation of generous software donations of considerable IT donors.

TOOLS FOR LIFE is a charitable foundation of Dr. Helmut Rothenberger Holding, which is committed to giving people access to clean water, sanitary facilities, energy and education.
The TOOLS FOR LIFE Foundation supports GTO as part of the Toiletten machen Schule® 2024 competition and the organization of the 1st German School Toilet Summit.

Viva con Agua is an international network that aims to improve the supply of clean drinking water and sanitation facilities in developing countries in a sustainable way. The organisation promotes the Sustainable Service Initiative (SSI), an initiative to develop a unified strategy in the WASH sector to increase project transparency and improve service quality. The GTO has been working with SSI since 2017.

The WEPA Foundation is a non-profit and company-affiliated foundation of the WEPA Group that promotes charitable initiatives in the fields of hygiene, ecological and social sustainability, lifelong learning and family entrepreneurship. The WEPA Foundation supports GTO as part of the Toiletten machen Schule® 2024 competition and the organization of the 1st German School Toilet Summit.

The Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB) is a German aid and welfare organization. In addition to its domestic work, ASB is active in over 30 countries on four continents together with partner organizations and provides a wide range of support there. This ranges from emergency aid following natural disasters, epidemics or other humanitarian crises to reconstruction and disaster preparedness to helping people to help themselves. The GTO and arche noVa have been working with ASB in the consortium project "Environmentally sound and climate resilient transformation of humanitarian WASH" since November 2023. The GTO provides support in areas such as capacity development and institutional learning.

The German Federal Parents' Council (BER) is the umbrella organization of the state parents' associations in Germany. Through its members, it represents the parents of around 8 million children and young people at general and vocational schools. The BER is a partner of our nationwide Toiletten machen Schule® competitions.

www.bundeselternrat.de

The Bundesschülerkonferenz (BSK) is the permanent conference of the student representatives of the federal states in the Federal Republic of Germany. They work on a non-partisan and non-denominational basis. The BSK is a partner of our nationwide competition Toiletten machen Schule®.

www.bundesschuelerkonferenz.com

Cewas is a Swiss non-profit association dedicated to improving business practices in water supply and sanitation. The GTO is working with the regional office cewas Middle East within a school toilet project in Jordan.

Eawag is a Swiss research institute that conducts research, teaching and consultancy in the field of water with the aim of promoting the sustainable use of water resources and water infrastructures. In cooperation with Eawag and other partners, the GTO has published a publication on sanitation technologies in emergency aid.

Malteser International is the agency of the Sovereign Order of Malta for humanitarian assistance and development with its headquarters in Germany. Since 2012 the GTO has been working closely with this renowned organisation, which focuses on health, WASH and Nutrition. GTO supported Malteser International in the development of its WASH Guidelines. Since 2013 both are continuously supported by the German Federal Foreign Office to strengthen the humanitarian WASH sector. Since 2019, GTO and Malteser International have been collaborating on a transitional development project in South Sudan.

In its project “Toiletized World”, the GTO is inspired by Project CLEAN. Since 1995, Project CLEAN has been working to improve safety, cleanliness and hygiene in public school toilets, taking on a national leadership role in the United States. The project is led by Dr. Tom Keating. The GTO owes him, among other things, the idea of the "Toilet Walk" and the "4-Senses-Inspection", which are an integral part of “Toiletized World”.

The German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) is the civil protection and disaster control organisation of the German Federal Government with almost exclusively honorary task forces. The GTO cooperates with the THW in the implementation of practice-oriented toilet construction courses.

Welthungerhilfe is one of the largest private aid organisations in Germany. It provides help from a single source: from rapid disaster relief and reconstruction to long-term development aid projects with local partner organisations based on the principle of helping people to help themselves. The GTO works closely with the organisation within the framework of the WASH network and the Sustainable Service Initiative.

GTO would like to thank Domestos for supporting the Toiletten machen Schule® competition in 2018/19 and 2024, as well as the pilot study on school sanitation in Berlin schools in 2021/22 and the 1st German School Toilet Summit in 2024.

Labor für Umwelthygiene Dr. Bürger (LUH) specialises in laboratory analyses in the areas of drinking water, wastewater, swimming pool water and process water. LUH Dr Bürger has supported the GTO for many years with a generous donation at Christmas. In recent years, the GTO has used these funds to produce hygiene promotion materials for use abroad as well as for the implementation and further development of Toilets Making the Grade®.

The GTO uses Sli.do, a tool that promotes easy interaction with participants at meetings, events and conferences. It is used to obtain feedback through surveys or to organise Q+A sessions. www.sli.do.

GTO would like to thank Villeroy & Boch for supporting the Toiletten machen Schule® competition in 2012/13, 2018/19 and 2024, as well as the 1st German School Toilet Summit in 2024.