Key conferences, meetings, webinars and international days
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
Available courses
Coming soon
- Specialist course: Financing resilient WASH systems
- Specialist course: Driving change for strong WASH systems
- Specialist course: Fundraising for WASH
Register for the WASH Systems Academy anytime, anywhere
2021
February 2021
- 01 February - [Virtual Event] IRC/Watershed: Raise your voice for water! Launch of the global #VoicesforWater campaign, 11:00-12:00 CET
- 01-04 February - [Virtual Event] OECD: 2021 Blended Finance and Impact Week. Delivering the 2030 Agenda in the COVID-19 era and beyond
- 02 February - [Event] World Wetlands Day
- 02-29 February - [Online discussion] SuSanA India Chapter Thematic Discussion - Expertise and resources needed for inclusive and lasting water supply and sanitation [free registration required]
- 03 February - [Webinar] HumanRight2Water: A human rights-based approach for community adaptation to climate change, 09:00-10:30 CET
- 03 February - [Webinar] Oxford Water Network - Climate Change and Water Resources: Practitioners' Insights, a Conversation, 16:00-17:00 CET
- [UNCONFIRMED] 08-12 February - [Event] 8th Africa Water Week: Water Security for Development and Human Health, Windhoek, Namibia
- 08-12 February - [Virtual Event] India & the Netherlands - Virtual Mission India: Water
- 11 February - [Webinar] Conrad N. Hilton Foundation - Safe Water Initiative: A New Five-Year Strategy for SDG6.1, 08:00 PT | 17:00 CET
- 15 February - [Webinar] ROCKBlue Online Urban Water and Sanitation Lecture Series - How to Emerge from COVID Stronger Than We Went In: A Marshall Plan for WASH, 15:30 SAST / 14:30 CET / 08:30 EST
- 17 February - [Webinar] Advocating for WASH in Healthcare Facilities: A Roundtable Series - WASH in HCF Advocacy, 13:00 CET | 19:00 ICT [register]
- 17 February - [Virtual discussion] Oxford Water Network - Fieldwork challenges in water research: An interactive discussion on the challenges of water-related research fieldwork, 13:00-14:00 CET
- 17 February - [Webinar] IWA YWP Get-Together: The Future of WASH, 13:00 CET
- 18 February - [Webinar] Cap-Net Climate & Water Second Webinar Series: Interactions between water and different sectors, 13:00 CET
- 22 February - [Webinar] SIWI Water Dialogues - A Water-Literate Society, 14:00-15:00 CET
- POSTPONED - 22-26 February - [Event] Water and WASH Futures 2021: Achieving SDG 6 in a Changing Climate, Brisbane, Australia --> 14–18 February 2022
- 22-23 February - [Virtual Event] Fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5). Strengthening Actions for Nature to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
- 23 February - [Webinar] IWA Cluster for Resource Recovery from Water: Circular Economy: Tapping the Power of Wastewater, 15:00 CET
- 23 February - [Webinar] WSUP: Adapting in a Time of Crisis, 17:00-18:00 CET
- 25 February - [Webinar] Cap-Net Climate & Water Second Webinar Series: From Commitments to Implementation, 13:00 CET
- 26 February - [Webinar] SuSanA India Chapter: Brainstorming on Supporting Panchayats Need for Inclusive Water Supply and Sanitation, 16:00-17:30 IST | 11:30-13:00
- 28 February - [Webinar] End Water Poverty: How can civil society work with National Human Rights Institutions to improve water governance?, 12:00 CET [register]
March 2021
- 01 March: [Webinar] ADBI Featured Speaker Webinar: Anjali Adukia on Sanitation, Education, and Development
- 01-03 March - [Virtual Event] Water Security and Climate Change conference (WSCC), Hanoi, Viet Nam
- 02 March - [Webinar] USAID -PROWASH Operation and Maintenance of WASH Infrastructure Webinar Series: USAID Lowland WASH Ethiopia, 09:00-10:00 EST / 15:00-16:00 CET
- 03 March - [Webinar] Advocating for WASH in Healthcare Facilities: A Roundtable Series - Advocacy and Accountability, 13:00 CET | 19:00 ICT [register]
- 04 March - [Webinar] Cap-Net Climate & Water Second Webinar Series: Climate Finance – Exploring Options for Funding Water & Climate, 13:00 CET
- 05 March - [Webinar] CSE and AGWA: Sustainable Urban Water Management – Challenges and Opportunities in mainstreaming Climate Adaptation, 17:00-18:15 IST | 12:30-13:45 CET
- 08 March - International Women's Day: #ChooseToChallenge
- 08 March - [Webinar] - IWA Specialist Group on Sustainability in the Water Sector: Women in the water sector, 15:00 CET
- 10-12 March - [Event] Water Africa & East Africa Building and Construction Exhibition and Seminars, Kigali, Rwanda
- 11-12 March - [Virtual Event] Colorado WASH Symposium
- 15-19 March [Virtual Event] Catalyzing Innovations and Digitization for Safe, Sustainable, Resilient, and Inclusive Water Management: Launch of E-Marketplace and Publications
- 16 March - [Webinar] USAID -PROWASH Operation and Maintenance of WASH Infrastructure Webinar Series: Groundwater Management Institute, Southern African Development Community (SADC), 09:00-10:00 EST / 15:00-16:00 CET
- 17 March - [Webinar] Advocating for WASH in Healthcare Facilities: A Roundtable Series - Advocating for Financing, 13:00 CET | 19:00 ICT [register]
- 22 March - [Event] World Water Day: Valuing Water #Water2me
- POSTPONED - 22-27 March - [Event] 9th World Water Forum: Water Security for Peace and Development, Dakar, Senegal ---> 21-26 March 2022
- 22-26 March - [Virtual Event] 5th General Assembly World Youth Parliament for Water: Making waves for youth inclusive global development
- 23-25 March - [Virtual Event] OECD Global Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum. Leading through the Crisis: Integrity and Anti-Corruption for a Resilient Recovery
- SAVE THE DATE 25 March - [Webinar] Book launch "Self-supply : filling the gaps in public water supply provision", 14:00 CET
April 2021
May 2021
June 2021
July 2021
August 2021
September 2021
- 03-11 September - [Event] IUCN World Conservation Congress, Marseilles, France
- 05-08 September - [Event] 4th IWA Resource Recovery Conference, Istanbul, Turkey
- 13–15 September - [Virtual Event] 42nd WEDC International Conference: Equitable and Sustainable WASH Services: celebrating our learning from failure and success
- 13-17 September - [Event] XVII World Water Congress: Foundations for Global Water Security and Resilience: Knowledge, Technology and Policy, Daegu, Korea
- 15-18 September - [Event] 1st IWA Non-Sewered Sanitation Conference, Pretoria, South Africa
- 22-24 September - [Event] 5th International Conference on Water Economics, Statistics and Finance + The International Conference on Rethinking Treatment with Asset Management, Porto, Portugal
- 23-24 September [Hybrid event] 1st Palestinian-Dutch Conference on Water, sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), and Climate smart agriculture (CSA), An-Najah National University/ via Zoom, Nablus, Palestine
October 2021
November 2021
December 2021
2022
January 2022
February 2022
March 2022
- 21-26 March - [Event] 9th World Water Forum: Water Security for Peace and Development, Diamniadio (Dakar), Senegal
- 22 March - [Event] World Water Day: Groundwater: making the invisible visible
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