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2013 WASH Sustainability Forum March 11 – 12
This Forum will examine the role of collaboration, particularly with governments, in ensuring lasting WASH services. Bringing together a broad mix of stakeholders, the day’s conversation will provide a practical foundation for strengthening collaboration with governments and other development partners around the world. Further, this event will help to foster initial conversations around coordination, the 2013 theme for World Water Day
Aligned with the WASH Sustainability Charter, this forum is being hosted by The World Bank Group, UNICEF, Global Water Challenge, WASH Advocates, Aguaconsult, and the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre. There is no charge for this event.
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Background:
In 2010, over 40 organizations gathered at the first Sustainability Forum to discuss sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services at scale. The following year, nearly 100 stakeholders from over 50 organizations came together to develop a common set of sustainability principles, which became the WASH Sustainability Charter. The momentum continued to build with new sustainability initiatives, learning forums, webinars, and presentations at global conferences. Sustainability has become a common topic as organizational practices and programmatic work shift from individual projects to sustainable services.
In early 2012, individuals from a consortium of organizations (Aguaconsult, Global Water Challenge, IRC and WASH Advocates) came together to build on previous work around sustainability and create SustainableWASH.org as a dynamic hub of the sustainability conversation. more about..
Other pages of interest at SustainableWASH.org site:
For all things SWASH: a great new site: WASH in School (WATER SANITATION HYGIENE)
There is a new site one should add to your collection of WATSAN SWASH WASH resources.
http://www.washinschools.info/
The purpose
“It serves as a discussion forum and an information exchange platform for sector professionals working in the field of WASH in Schools. The web site also aims to provide the opportunity for WASH in Schools Partnership members to share information on their events and programme activities linked to the Call to Action Campaign -which started in 2010- or beyond.”
Partnership behind SWASH+consortium
The partners that form the SWASH+ consortium are CARE, Emory University, the Great Lakes University of Kisumu, the Government of Kenya, and Water.org. SWASH+ is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Global Water Challenge.
SITE overview
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- SWASH+
- Call to Action
- Question & Answer Service
- Search the WASH Library
- Resources
- Case studies
- Participating
- Events
- Notes and News
- About WASH in Schools
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- SWASH+ Website Launch – 6 Years of School WASH Research Have Come Together! (sanitationupdates.wordpress.com)
- 6 years of school WASH research have come together! (sanitationupdates.wordpress.com)
- Kenya – WASH in Schools Lessons Learned (sanitationupdates.wordpress.com)
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