Key conferences, meetings, webinars and international days
Featured Events
event involving IRC as (co-)organiser or contributor
2018-2028: International Decade for Action: Water for sustainable development
2021-2030: UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
WASH discussions: SuSanA Forum | RWSN Dgroups | Yammer: WASH in Schools Network | COVID-19 Hygiene Hub forum
WASH Systems Academy
Courses: WASH systems strengthening: the basics | Social art for behaviour change: the basics | Specialist courses: Building blocks of sustainable WASH systems Finance for sustainable WASH systems | Custom-made course: Advocating for universal WASH services
2022
May 2022
- 19 October 2021 - 28 May 2022 - [Event] Kallola 2021: Period Talks and Menstrual Health & Hygiene, Odisha, India
- 02-20 May - [Hybrid Event] Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks (HNPW) 2022, Geneva, Switzerland
- 05 May - [Global Event] WHO: World Hand Hygiene Day
- 05 May - [Webinar] Global WHO IPC Webinar on World Hand Hygiene Day, 13:30 CEST [Register]
- 10-13 May - [Hybrid Event] United Nations/Ghana/PSIPW - 5th International conference on the use of space technology for water resources management - incl. Participatory workshop for indigenous women on their roles and responsibilities related to water
- 11 May - [Webinar] PSI Europe & BMZ programme Sanitation for Millions - Is menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) the missing link in adopting a true feminist development cooperation policy?, 14:00 CEST
- 11-13 May - [Event] IWA's 9th Leading Edge Conference for Strategic Asset Management (LESAM), Bordeaux, France
- 11 May - 02 June - [E-discussion] SNV: Climate Resilient Rural WASH
- 11 May - 02 June - [E-discussion] SNV: Sustainable Urban Water Cycles
- 12 May - [Hybrid Event] Finnish Water Forum (FWF): From Words to Deeds in Humanitarian WASH / WATER context, Geneva, Switzerland, 16:00-17:30 CEST
- 16-18 May - [Event] Global Water Summit 2022: Water-Positive Zero Carbon. Madrid, Spain
- 17 May - [Global Event] International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia: Our Bodies, Our Lives, Our Rights
- 17 May - [Webinar] Water for Women & Edge Effect IDAHOBIT webinar: What about us? Including sexual and gender minorities in WASH, 14:00-15:15 AEST | 06:00-07:15 CEST
- 17-21 May - [Event] UCLG-A: 9th Africities Summit - 'The Role of Intermediary Cities of Africa in the implementation of Agenda 2030 of the United Nations and the African Union Agenda 2063', Kisumu, Kenya
- 18 May - [Webinar] HWTS Network: Water quality testing in action - Making your testing program work in the real world, 10:00 am ET | 16:00 CEST
- 18-19 May - [Event] Sanitation and Water for All (SWA), Government of Indonesia & UNICEF: 2022 Sector Ministers' Meeting (SMM)
- 18-19 May - [Hybrid Event] Emergency Environmental Health Forum, Budapest, Hungary [Register: in-person | online]
- 18-20 May - [Event] IAH-CGH, Unesco-IHP & French Water Partnership: International Conference - Groundwater, Key to the Sustainable Development Goals, Paris, France
- 19 May - [Webinar] FSMA Spotlights: Lessons from Polokwane, South Africa - Exploring linkages between city-level sanitation, national strategy and transboundary basin management, 10:00-11:00 CEST
- 22-26 May - [Event] World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland
- 22-28 May - [Event] Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly. Geneva, Switzerland
- 23-27 May - [Event] 6th Congress IWA-Mexico 2022: Young water Professionals, Culiacán, Sinaloa, México
- 24 May - [Webinar] Menstrual Health Alliance India (MHAi): Open Access - Increasing Access to Cloth & Menstrual Cups in India, 16:30-18:30 IST | 13:00-15:00 CEST [registration]
- 25-31 May - [Virtual Event] IUAES Congress: Panel - Community water management and basic sanitation: The before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic
- 26-27 May - [Event] Government of Bangladesh (GED), Netherlands Embassy Dhaka and others: Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 Conference - Issues and Challenges of Implementation, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- 27 May - [Virtual Event] Univ. of Reading, IDS & ECREA: Reframing Water and Climate Resilience
- 28 May - [Global Event] Menstrual Hygiene Day
- 30 May - 03 June - [Event] IFAT Trade Fair for Water, Sewage, Waste and Raw Materials Management
- 31 May - [Webinar] RWSN Early Webinar Series 2022: Self-supply hotspots: the case of Bangladesh
June 2022
- 02-03 June - [Event] Stockholm+50: a healthy planet for the prosperity of all – our responsibility, our opportunity, Stockholm, Sweden
- 06-09 June - [Event] 2nd International High-Level Conference on the International Decade for Action "Water for Sustainable Development", 2018-2028, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
- 07 June - [Webinar] RWSN Early Webinar Series 2022: Leaving no one behind: pastoralist water management and rights
- 08 June - [Global Event] World Oceans Day
- 08-10 June - [Event] Water Africa & West Africa Building and Construction Exhibition and Seminars, Accra, Ghana
- 19-22 June - [Event] IWA/Czech Water Association: Water Loss 2022, Prague, Czech Republic
- 19-24 June - [Event] 39th IAHR World Congress: From Snow to Sea, Granada, Spain
- 20-23 June - [Virtual Event] International WaterCentre & Australian Aid: Water, WASH and Climate Virtual Symposium
- 21 June - [Webinar] RWSN Early Webinar Series 2022: Embedding solar pumping best practices
- 21 June [Virtual Event] Water Finance Coalition meeting: Asia Region, 09:30-11:00 CEST | Latin America Region, 16:00-17:30 CEST [members only, request membership]
- 22 June - [Global Event] World Environment Day
- 22-24 June - [Event] IWA & WHO : Water Safety Conference 2022, Narvik, Norway
- 26-30 June - [Event] UN-Habitat: World Urban Forum (WUF11): Transforming our Cities for a Better Urban Future, Katowice, Poland
- 27 June - [Event] UN Ocean Conference - High Level Symposium on Water - "Bridging SDG 6 and SDG 14" [Save the date] [Concept note]
- 27 June - 01 July - [Event] 3rd IWA Disinfection and Disinfection By-Products Conference, Milan, Italy
- 28 June - [Webinar] RWSN Early Webinar Series 2022: Service delivery models for rural water supply
- 30 June - 02 July - [Event] International Research Conference on Dealing with Drought: Water Scarcity, Human (Im)Mobility and Adaptation Strategies in Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East, Augsburg University, Germany
July 2022
- 03-06 July - [Event] 13th IWA Specialist Conference on Wastewater Ponds and Algal Technologies #WPAT22, Melbourne, Australia
- 04-08 July - [Event] IWA, IAHR, UTCB & UPB: 14th International Conference on Hydroinformatics − HIC 2022, Bucharest, Romania
- 05-06 July - [Hybrid Event] Global Leakage Summit, London, UK
- 05-07 July - [Event] NbS Conference 2022: Nature-based Solutions in a Changing Climate, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- 05-15 July - [Event] High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) 2022: Building back better from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while advancing the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, New York, NY, USA
- 10-13 July - [Event] 10th International Water Association Membrane Technology Conference (10th IWA-MTC), St. Louis, USA
- 12-13 July - [Hybrid Event] European Wastewater Management Conference & Exhibition, Birmingham, UK
- 14-16 July - [Hybrid Event] 7th International Conference on Water Pollution and Treatment (ICWPT 2022), Frankfurt, Germany
- 20-22 July - [Event] 6th International Congress on Water, Waste and Energy Management (WWEM-22), Rome, Italy
- 22-29 July - [Virtual Event] African Water Association: 1st AfWA Digital Congress - Rising up from the global Covid 19 pandemic and accelerating universal access to water and sanitation services in Africa by 2030
- 24-28 July - [Event] 3rd Latin American Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (3rd SDEWES LA Conference), São Paulo, Brazil
August 2022
- 23 August-01 September - [Hybrid Event] SIWI: World Water Week 2022 - "Seeing the unseen: The value of water"
September 2022
- 11-15 September - [Event] IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition: Shaping Our Water Future, Water for smart liveable cities, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 11-16 September - [Event] VIA University College: World Water Camp 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark [apply before 01 Feb 2022]
- 13-27 September - [Event] 77th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 77), New York, NY, USA
- 14-15 September - [Event] IWA: 7th International Water Regulators Forum, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 28-30 September - [Hybrid Event] Water Institute of South Africa: WISA 2022 Biennial Conference and Exhibition, Sandton, South Africa
October 2022
- 03-04 October - [Virtual Event] 16th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA16) [announcement]
- 14-16 October - [Event] 2022 World Bank Group/International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings, Marrakech, Morocco
- 15 October - [Global Event] Global Handwashing Day
- 18-20 October - [Event] IWA Conference on Sustainable Sludge Management, Beijing, China
- 19-21 October 2022 - [Hybrid event] All Systems Go Africa, Accra, Ghana
- 24-28 October - [Event] UNC Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- 26-28 October - [Event] Asian Institute of Technology (AIT): ICUE 2022 on Energy, Environment and Climate Change, Pattaya, Thailand
- 28-30 October - [Event] 7th International Conference on Water Pollution Control Engineering (WPCE 2022), Nanjing, China
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