Published on: 04/10/2016
The Water and Health Conference 2016: where science meets policy will take place at the Water Institute at UNC. Water and Health Conferences focus on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in a global context with a strong public health emphasis. This year's theme is domestic WASH in high income countries.
Conference topics include: drinking water challenges in underserved communities in the United States; water stability and sustainability for a changing North Carolina population; and enveloped viruses with WASH linkages such as Ebola, Zika and cholera.
IRC's sessions and side events
IRC will (co-)host several sessions and side events during the conference.
Monday, 10 October
- 08-30-10.00h: Side event 'The role of advocacy to achieve the SDGs: building civil society capacity for WASH and IWRM.' Conveners: IRC, Simavi, Wetlands International. Location: Dogwood.
- 08-30-10.00h: Side event 'Meeting the SDGs in Latin America and the Caribbean: The challenges of monitoring universal access to sustainable and equitable WASH services.' Conveners: IRC, CRS, WaterAid, WfP. Location: Mountain Laurel.
- 10:30-12:00h: Side event 'Synergising for Shared Impact to Achieve Sustainable Universal access to WASH services'. Conveners: The Conrad Hilton Foundation, IRC, the Community Water and
Sanitation Agency Ghana, WaterAid Ghana, World Vision Ghana, Safe Water Network, and the Desert Research Institute. Location: Dogwood. - 17.30-19.30h: Agenda for Change reception. Conveners: Location: Aloft Hotel.
Tuesday, 11 October
- 08.30-10.00h: Side event 'The story of systems building: Multi-country learning from Agenda for Change'. Conveners: IRC, Osprey Foundation, and Water For People. Location: Mountain Laurel.
Wednesday, 12 October
- 08.30-10.00h: Side event 'Transformational change to reach the SDGs: putting SWA's collaborative behaviors into practice. Conveners: Sanitation and Water for All Partnership, WaterAid, IRC, WSP/WB and WHO.' Location: Sunflower.
Thursday, 13 October
- 08.30-10.00h: Side event 'Scaling up Safe Water: Disinfection at the Point of Collection' .Conveners: Safe Water Network, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. Location: Mountain Laurel.
- 08.30-10.00h: Side event 'Domestic Resource Mobilisation for WASH: what can realistically be expected in lower middle income countries?' Conveners: WSUP and IRC. Location: Windflower.
- 10.30-12.00h: Espresso café on 'WASH away from the home'. Conveners: IRC and WorldVision. Location: Sunflower.
For more information visit the website or go directly to the online programme.
