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The discussion on the first week's theme has started today. The introduction to this topic is now online and can be accessed through the following link. With this link you can react to the theme and its questions but note that you will have to log in on the SuSanA forum: http://forum.susana.org/... Read more...
Webinar "From building infrastructure to creating support mechanisms for rural water supplies" The rural water supply sector is moving from a focus on building systems to increase coverage, towards one of creating mechanisms to ensure that these systems provide sustainable services. Particularly... Read more...
Why do we need a specific focus on sanitation in urban areas? In its assessment of the achievement of the water and sanitation Millennium Development Goals, the Joint Monitoring Programme notes that the world has fallen short of its sanitation targets. Still some 2.4 billion people lack access to... Read more...
What are the factors that facilitate and inhibit the success of ICT-based reporting to improve rural water supply sustainability? Find out by joining a webinar on Tuesday 8 September, from 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CEST, that will look into the potentials and pitfalls of using ICTs in the water and... Read more...
IRC is preparing several sessions for the upcoming World Water Week in Stockholm from 23 - 28 August 2015. An IRC delegation will attend: IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty; IRC Burkina Faso Country Director Juste Nansi; Head International and Innovation Programme Catarina Fonseca, Coordinator of Research... Read more...
This event aims at sketching out a change agenda and describes what is needed to go to scale. Worldwide there are several successful social enterprises that are providing safe water via water kiosks, chlorine dispensors, decentralised chlorine production or production and sales of household water... Read more...
Join WASH Advocates, Global Water Challenge, IRC, and Aguaconsult for a three-part webinar series as we explore ways to move beyond just reporting and turn our data into action 30 June, using data for political action If you've ever pondered how you could unleash the power of all those spreadsheets... Read more...
The second SuSanA thematic discussion “Urban Sanitation Finance – from Macro to Micro Level” will start on Tuesday 23 June on the SuSanA Discussion Forum. The discussion will look at financing sanitation in the urban area from different angels – What are current levels of public finance at national... Read more...
Side event on Financing Universal Access to Water and Sanitation Services by 2030. 15th of July 2015 10.00-12.30 The 2015 Global Risks report of the World Economic Forum identifies the occurrence of 'Water Crises' as the number one global risk in terms of impact and number eight in terms of... Read more...
Ghana was one of the 50+ countries selected to host national consultations to contribute to defining potential priorities for the Post-2015 Development Agenda, as well to reflect on issues of implementation and the 'how', while drawing lessons for localization of the Sustainable Development Goals (... Read more...
Venue : IRC Sponsored by DGIS IRC in collaboration with WASTE and PLAN NL Purpose : This roundtable discussion is to reflect on Urban Led Community Total Sanitation (ULCTS) and how it fits in line with urban sanitation and its potential impact. Time slot Programme 13:30-13:35 Welcome (IRC) 13:35-13... Read more...
Dutch Olympic sailor Carolijn Brouwer will launch a "Menstrual Hygiene Call to Action" at an event in Scheveningen, The Hague. Ms Brouwer is captain of team SCA, the only all-female boat participating in the Volvo Ocean Race. The boat's sponsor SCA is a global hygiene company that includes sanitary... Read more...
IRC focuses its efforts on processes of change in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector towards more sustainable and cost-effective service delivery. However, the adoption of promising approaches and good practices in such processes often remains limited, as a result of factors such as:... Read more...
WASHCost offers a free online course for WASH sector professionals. The “Costing Sustainable Services” online course was developed to assist governments, (I)NGOs, donors and individuals to plan and budget for sustainable and equitable WASH services, using a life-cycle costs approach. Every other... Read more...
To have lasting impact over time and after USAID's assistance ends, WASH programs need to factor in sustainability during planning, design, implementation and monitoring. USAID's Heather Skilling and Rochelle Rainey will host this webinar on the nature of sustainable WASH services; factors of... Read more...
Whilst the new ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are being finalised, an equally important discussion is going on: how do we finance their achievement? Addis Ababa is hosting a UN Financing for Development conference from 13 to 16 July 2015 on this topic. In preparation for the... Read more...
The long-awaited fourth AfricaSan will be held from 25 - 27 May 2015 in Dakar. This path-breaking conference will this year continue to raise the priority of sanitation amongst the new generation of political leaders. AfricaSan is one of AMCOW's path-breaker initiatives to promote political... Read more...
The RWSN e-discussion on local government, is co-organized together with IRC, WaterAid, IADB, SKAT and Water for People. The e-discussion will be kicked off on 27 April on the sustainable services D-Group of RWSN and will run for four weeks, with each week focusing on a specific topic. The first... Read more...
Upcoming meeting WASH and ICT: Leveraging the Data Stream will be held in Washington, DC on May 14 and 15. This meeting will explore opportunities for the WASH sector to harness the capabilities of information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve water services. Read more...
30 and 31 March 2015 IRC will host the Multiple Use water Services Group meeting in The Hague, the Netherlands. The goal of the meeting is to identify the potential contributions of a MUS perspective to the water resource management and water tenure debates, in particular ongoing global efforts to... Read more...
'My Water, My Business' is a series of linked events organised as part of the 2015 World Water Day celebrations. It aims to bring attention to new innovation.that Ethiopia is pioneering new approaches in water, sanitation and hygiene (WasH). The events will connect sector policy-makers, development... Read more...
This year, the UN will launch the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). How will they differ from the existing Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and what will the implications be for the sector? One of the main differences between the MDGs and SDGs is the focus on universal access as compared... Read more...
WaterAid and the Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation and Ministry of Urban Development are organizing a 3-day India WASH Summit from 16-18 February, 2015, at the India International Centre, New Delhi. The first event of its kind, it will bring together some 300 participants including... Read more...
Amsterdam International Water Week 2-6 november 2015: 'Integrated solutions for a circular economy and resilient cities' Call for papers now open! Does your idea deserve to be heard at the unique cross cutting international platform for integrated water solutions? Submit your paper to the AIWW... Read more...
A Sustainability Forum will take place in Ghana this week, focusing on gains made on sustainable services and on WASH partnerships for the future. Since its inception in 2009, the Triple-S project has worked together with the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), partner districts Akatsi,... Read more...
