IRC at UNC: Water and Health Conference 2015

Published on: 08/10/2015

IRC together with its partners will be present at this year's Water and Health Conference at the University of North Carolina (UNC). The 2015 Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy, organised by The Water Institute at UNC, considers drinking water supply, sanitation, hygiene and water resources in both the developing and developed worlds with a strong public health emphasis. An IRC delegation will attend, and IRC will (co)host a number of key sessions and side events. 

IRC's highlights 

An extended IRC delegation will attend, including IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty; Head International and Innovation Programme Catarina Fonseca, IRC Country Directors: IRC Burkina Faso - Juste Nansi; IRC Ghana - Vida Duti; IRC Uganda – Jane Nabunnya Mulumba; Country Program Coordinator, Ethiopia - Bethel Terefe; Country Program Coordinator, India Ruchika Shiva; Senior Expert sanitation Marielle Snel; Head of Fundraising and New Business Development Ton Schouten, Chief Operations Officer Rutger Verkerk; and Associated Senior Advisor to IRC Erma Uytewaal.

IRC's key sessions focus on topics as the Global Goals, public finance, advocacy, experiences from country-specific learning alliances, hygiene and sanitation. IRC's main sessions include: 

• Learning (and Practice) Alliances: Lessons from grassroots action-research, location: Bellflower,convened by CARE and IRC, Monday 26 Oct. 08:30-10:00 
• "Keep the water flowing" on post-construction support for rural water service providers, location: Windflower, convened by Improve International and IRC, Tuesday 27 Oct, 08:30 - 10:00
• Institutional WASH, Location: Marriot hotel, convened by IRC and SuSanA
  Tuesday 27 Oct, 19:00- 20:30
• Achieving the SDGs: what we need to do in the next five years, location: Windflower, convened by IRC, WaterAid, Water for People and Osprey Foundation, Wednesday 28 Oct. 08:30-10:00 
• The Future of WASH Advocacy: Where we came from and where are we going, location: Bellflower, convened by WASH Advocates and IRC, Wednesday 28 Oct. 10:30-12:00 

• Beyond 'business as usual': Changing behaviors to build sector systems that last, location: Bellflower, convened by Sanitation and Water for All - Country Processes Tasks Team and co-organised with IRC, Thursday 29 Oct. 08:30- 10:00 

• Primary research around public finance for WASH: ways forward [Flyer], location: Sunflower, convened by WSUP, IRC and Trémolet Consulting, Thursday 29 Oct. 10:30-12:00 

• Workshop on advocacy organised by WASH Advocates and IRC, location: tbd, convened by WASH Advocates and IRC, Thursday 29 Oct. 12:00 - 18:00  

IRC's poster presentations

Tuesday 27 October

• Vida Duti: "Learning from Practice- Case Study Topic: Facilitating change in a complex environment: delivering rural water services in Ghana"
• Catarina Fonseca: "Costs and services of water in humanitarian context: from emergencies to post-emergencies" 
• Marielle Snel: "WASH and disabilities in Bangladesh"

Thursday 29 October

• Bethel Terefe: "My water, my business: monitoring Self-supply in rural Ethiopia"
• Thinley Dem (WASH Advisor at SNV Bhutan) will present IRC and SNVs joint poster "Hygiene promotion in Bhutan: doest it work and at what cost" 

Find the schedule for all poster presentations here.  

Meet for a coffee? 

Are you at UNC and would you like to meet? Come by the Water for People - IRC stand. Please let us know via communications@ircwash.org. We look forward to meet you!

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