WASH events calendar

2018-2028: International Decade for Action: Water for sustainable development

2021-2030: UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

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2020

July 2020

• New date: 05-09 July 2020 --> 20-24 June 2021 - [Event] Singapore International Water Week (SIWW), Singapore 
• New date: 07-09 July 2020 --> 06-08 July 2021 - [Event] Nature-based Solutions (NbS) Conference 2020, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 
• 07-17 July - [Virtual Event] UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), New York, NY, USA
• 08 July - [Webinar] WHO/Europe and UNECE Webinar series 2020 - Protocol on Water and Health. Don't forget the small ones: the costs and financing of small-scale water and sanitation services in the pan-European region
• 08 July - [Webinar] UNEP - Ways to Walk the Water-Energy-Food Nexus Talk: The Way Forward
• 09 July - [Webinar] Sanitation Technology Platform (STeP) - Opportunities to Improve Menstrual Health and Hygiene, 09:00-10:00 (EST)
• 14 July - [Webinar] USAID SCALE/PRO-WASH Launch: Make Me a Change Agent: An SBC Resource for WASH, Agriculture, and Livelihoods Activities
• New date: 21-24 July 2020 --> 05-08 July 2021 [Event] 1st IWA Non-Sewered Sanitation Conference, Pretoria, South Africa

August 2020

• 03 August - 03 November - [Online Course] WASH Systems Academy - WASH systems strengthening: the basics, 
• 03 August - 03 November - [Online Course] WASH Systems Academy - Specialist course: Building blocks of sustainable WASH systems, 03 Aug - 03 Nov 2020
• 19-21 August 2020 - [Event] ACODAL 2020: 63˚Congreso Internacional del Agua, Saneamiento, Ambiente y Energías Renovables, Cartegena, Colombia
• 24-28 Aug 2020 - [Virtual Event] WWWeek at Home: Water and Climate Change: Accelerating Action
• Postponed: 24-26 August 2020 --> mid-June 2021 - [Event] DevRes 2020, Umeå, Sweden
• 30 August - 01 September - [Event] Global Water Summit: Challenging Assumptions, Madrid, Spain [incl. Day 1: Finance workshop "The SDG 6 Challenge"]

September 2020

• 02-04 September  -[Event] WATEF Conference 2020: Moving towards water resilient communities, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
• New date: 07-10 September 2020 --> 06–10 September 2021 - [Event] 42nd WEDC International Conference: Equitable and Sustainable WASH Services: celebrating our learning from failure and success, Loughborough, UK
• 08 September [Event] -  Waterinfodag, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
• 16-18 September  - [Event] Water Africa & East Africa Building and Construction Exhibition and Seminars, Kigali, Rwanda
• New date: 21-25 September --> 13-17 September 2021 - [Event] XVII World Water Congress: Foundations for Global Water Security and Resilience: Knowledge, Technology and Policy, Daegu, Korea
• 21-24 September - [Event] Africa Water Security Congress, Nairobi, Kenya
• 22-23 September - [Event] World Humanitarian Forum, New York, NY, USA

October 2020

• 05 October - 05 January 2021 - [Online Course] WASH Systems Academy - WASH systems strengthening: the basics
• 05 October - 05 January 2021 - [Online Course]  WASH Systems Academy - Specialist course: Building blocks of sustainable WASH systems
• 05-09 October - [Event] UNC Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
• 07-09 October - [Event] SFD [Shit Flow Diagram] week 2020, Neemli, Rajasthan, India
• 15 October - [Event] Global Handwashing Day
• 18–23 October - [Event] IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition: Water for smart liveable cities, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 20-21 October - [Event] GRoW final conference: Water as a Global Resource Conference, Berlin, Germany
• 27-29 October - [Event] 4th G-STIC conference, Brussels, Belgium
• 28-30 October - [Event] Final AfriAlliance Conference, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
• 29-30 October - [Virtual Event] IWRA - "Addressing Groundwater Resilience under Climate Change"

November 2020

• 08-12 November - [Event] Sixth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR2020): Re-imagining health systems for better health and social justice, Dubai, UAE
• 19 November [Event] World Toilet Day 
• 24-26 November - [Event] African Utility Week, Cape Town, South Africa
• 30 November -03 December - [Event] IWA Digital Water Summit, Bilbao, Spain

December 2020

• 01 December - 01 March 2021 - [Online Course] WASH Systems Academy - WASH systems strengthening: the basics
• 01 December - 01 March 2021 - [Online Course] WASH Systems Academy - Specialist course: Building blocks of sustainable WASH systems
• 02-04 December - [Event] Africa Knows! It is time to decolonise minds, The Hague, the Netherlands
• 06-09 December - [Event] WISA 2020 Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa
• 10 December - [Hybrid Event] Devex World, Washington, DC, USA and Virtual
• 14 December - [Event] World Water Loss Day

2021

January 2021

• 07-15 January - [Event] IUCN World Conservation Congress, Marseilles, France

February 2021

• 02 February - [Event] World Wetlands Day 
• 22-26 February - [Event] Water and WASH Futures 2021: Achieving SDG 6 in a Changing Climate, Brisbane, Australia 

March 2021

• 22 March - [Event] World Water Day 
• 22-27 March - [Event] 9th World Water Forum: Water Security for Peace and Development, Dakar, Senegal 

May 2021

• 28 May - [Event] Menstrual Hygiene Day 
• 31 May - 04 June - [Event] 6th International Faecal Sludge Management Conference (FSM6), Jakarta, Indonesia 

June 2021

• 20-24 June - [Event] Singapore International Water Week (SIWW), Singapore 

July 2021

• 05-08 July - [Event] 1st IWA Non-Sewered Sanitation Conference, Pretoria, South Africa 
• 06-08 July - [Event] Nature-based Solutions (NbS) Conference University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 
• 14-16 July - [Event] Water Africa & West Africa Building and Construction Exhibition and Seminars, Accra, Ghana 

September 2021

• 06–10 September - [Event] 42nd WEDC International Conference: Equitable and Sustainable WASH Services: celebrating our learning from failure and success, Loughborough, UK
• 13-17 September - [Event] XVII World Water Congress: Foundations for Global Water Security and Resilience: Knowledge, Technology and Policy, Daegu, Korea

October 2021

• 04-09 October - [Event] UNC Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
• 15 October - [Event] Global Handwashing Day

November 2021

• 01-12 November - [Event] 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), Glasgow, Scotland, UK
• 19 November - [Event] World Toilet Day

December 2021

• 14 December - [Event] World Water Loss Day

2022

February 2022

• 02 February - [Event] World Wetlands Day

March 2022

• 22 March - [Event] World Water Day

May 2022

• 28 May - [Event] Menstrual Hygiene Day

October 2022

• 15 October - [Event] Global Handwashing Day
• 24-28 October - [Event] UNC Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

November 2022

• 19 November - [Event] World Toilet Day

2023

February 2023

• 02 February - [Event] World Wetlands Day

March 2023

• 22 March - [Event] World Water Day
• 22-24 March - [Event] UN Conference on the Midterm Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Decade for Action, "Water for Sustainable Development", 2018–2028, New York, NY, USA

May 2023

• 28 May - [Event] Menstrual Hygiene Day

October 2023

• 15 October - [Event] Global Handwashing Day
• 23-27 October - [Event] UNC Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

November 2023

• 19 November - [Event] World Toilet Day