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
- WASH systems strengthening: the basics
- Specialist course: Building blocks of sustainable WASH systems
- NEW! Specialist course: Advocating for universal WASH services
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
2020
November 2020
- 19 October - 09 November [E-discussion] RWSN: Water supply in rural areas: the right for regulated and sustainable services [registration required]
- 22 October - 12 November [Virtual event] Latin American Meetings on Anaerobic Digestion
- 03 November - [Webinar] SERI / Mail & Guardian Water Rights Webinar Series: Provincial intervention in a municipal crisis: Lessons from Makana, 10:30-12:30 SAST
- 03 November - [Webinar] RWSN Late Webinar Series 2020: Increased resource mobilization for rural WASH in Africa, 11:00 CET (français) | 14.30 CET (English)
- 03-06 November - [Event] MOLE XXXI Conference: Prioritizing and Refocusing Sustainable WASH Services Delivery: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic, Accra, Ghana
- 04 November - [Virtual Event] SWA Africa Regional Finance Ministers' Meeting
- 05 November - [Webinar] Measuring handwashing with soap: The what and how of monitoring and evaluating hand hygiene interventions, 10:30-12:00 CET | 15:00-16:30 IST [Zoom link]
- 05 November - [Webinar] Accountability for Water Programme Launch: How to Strengthen Accountability in the Water Sector, 12:00 pm CET [registration]
- 05 November - [Webinar] IADB - Toilets in public spaces: can cities hold off any longer? [in Spanish with English interpretation], 10:00 am EST | 16:00 CET [Registration]
- 08-12 November - [Virtual Event] 2nd Latin American and Caribbean Young Water Professional Conferences: Towards Sustainable Development
- 08-12 November - [Event] Sixth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR2020): Re-imagining health systems for better health and social justice, Dubai, UAE
- 09-11 November - [Virtual Event] Water Loss 2020: Smart Solutions for Water Losses
- 10 November - [Webinar] 3rd APWF Webinar: Re-Charting Water Pathways for Greener Recovery Options, 05:30-06:30 CET | 13:30-14:30 Japan time [Registration]
- 10 November - [Webinar] UNICEF - Monitoring Menstrual Health & Hygiene, 08:00-09:30 EST | 14:00-15:30 CET [Zoom link]
- 10 November - [Webinar] RWSN Late Webinar Series 2020: Achieving sustainable WASH at scale; lessons from an NGO-led Payment by Results Programme, 14.30 CET (English)
- 10 November - [Webinar] The Business Case for Including Human Rights to Sanitation, 15:00 CET
- 10 November - Webinar] Water drives resilient countries: call for action to public development banks towards a Water Finance Coalition, 16:00-17:30 CET
- 11 November - [Webinar] WASH system strengthening in practice: experiences from WaterAid's SusWASH programme, 05:00 am GMT [registration]
- 11 November - [Webinar] RECLAIM - a collaborative resource-recovery game for urban sanitation planning, 13:00-14:00 CET
- 11 November - [Webinar] Community Water Governance for Urban Water Security in sub-Saharan Africa, 17:00-18:00 GMT
- 11-13 November - [Virtual Event] MIT Water Summit: A World of Water - Reimagining Resilience
- 12 November - [Event] - Learning Exchange on Innovative WASH practices in Ghana: Meeting the targets for SDG6 through District-wide initiatives, Accra, Ghana
- 12 November - [Virtual Event] Race to Zero November Dialogues - Water Day, 09:00-18:30 CET
- 12 November - [Webinar] WASH system strengthening in practice: experiences from WaterAid's SusWASH programme, 17:00 CET [registration]
- 15-19 November - [Virtual Event] #TropMed20: American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Annual Meeting
- 17-18 November - [Virtual Event] Virtual Technical Consultation on Contraceptive-Induced Menstrual Changes [registration]
- 17 November - 17 December - [Virtual Event] NEWAVE e-Lecture Series: Water Governance Theoretical Perspectives
- 17 November - [Webinar] SERI/Mail & Guardian Water Rights Webinar Series: Self-supply – lessons from Harrismith's 'Water Heroes', 09:30:11:00 CET | 10:30-12:00 South Africa
- 17 November - [Webinar] RWSN Late Webinar Series 2020: Data for rural water decision-making, 14.30 CET (English)
- 17 November - [Virtual Event] - The Sanitation and Hygiene Fund Launch, 16:00 CET | 10:00 EST
- 17 November - [Virtual Event] Launch of the Bonn Water Network: connecting competences for sustainable water futures, 17:30-19:00 CET
- 18 November - [Virtual Event] SWA Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Finance Ministers' Meeting
- 18 November - [Webinar] IHE Delft MOTA Webinar Series: MOTA Applications, 09:00-11:00 CET
- 18 November - [Webinar] Providing Water Services in a Devolved Governance Structure: a Kenyan Case, 12:30-13:30 GMT
- 18 November - [Webinar] SusWASH programme: Monitoring and Evaluation of WaterAid's work on WASH System Strengthening, 14:00-15:00 CET [closed event for Agenda for Change members]
- 18 November - [Virtual Event] Period Posse Presents: Beyond Products: Prioritizing Menstrual Disposal & Maintenance in Emergencies, 08:00-13:00 EST | 14:00-19:00 CET [registration]
- 19 November - [Event] World Toilet Day: Sustainable Sanitation and Climate Change
- 19 November - [Webinar] O&M Opportunities in rural Community Sanitary Complexes, 11:30-12:30 CET | 16:00-17:00 Indian Standard Time
- 19 November - [Webinar] Scrap the Period Tax - Menstrual Product Tax: Assessing Impact & Action, 15:00-16:30 CET [registration]
- 19 November - [Webinar] IWRA Webinar on World Toilet Day 2020, 15:00-16:30 CET
- 19 November - [Virtual Event] Toilet Board Coalition World Toilet Day events - Accelerator Programme celebration, Women in Sanitation Economy Conversation, 'Sanitation at Scale' Series Premiere
- 19 November - [Virtual Event] Water For People Town Hall – Sanitation + World Toilet Day, 10:00-11:00 am MST | 16:00-17:00 CET
- 24 November - [Webinar] RWSN Late Webinar Series 2020: Exploring the relevance of borehole drilling associations, 11:00 CET (français) | 14.30 CET (English)
- POSTPONED - 24-26 November - [Event] African Utility Week, Cape Town, South Africa --> 11-13 May 2021
- 25 November - [Webinar] Solar Powered Water Systems in Humanitarian Context – Types and Configurations, 11:00 CET
- 26 November - [Webinar] TU Delft: Access to Drinking Water Webinar: co-creation in Africa #SDG6, 14:00-17:00 CET
- 26-27 November - [Virtual Event] ISC-FICCI Sanitation Awards & India Sanitation Conclave 2020
- POSTPONED - 30 November -03 December - [Event] IWA Digital Water Summit, Bilbao, Spain --> 15–18 November 2021
December 2020
- 17 November - 17 December - [Virtual Event] NEWAVE e-Lecture Series: Water Governance Theoretical Perspectives
- 01-03 December - [Virtual Event] UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation: Planning and Vision for the Mandate 2020-2022
- 01 December - [Webinar] RWSN Late Webinar Series 2020: Overlooked and underestimated: The role & importance of household investments, 11:00 CET (français) | 14.30 CET (English)
- 02 December - [Virtual Event] SWA Asia & Pacific Regional Finance Ministers' Meeting
- 02 December - 26 February 2021 - [Hybrid Event] Africa Knows! It is time to decolonise minds, The Hague, the Netherlands and Virtual
- 07-11 December - [Virtual Event] WISA 2020 Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa
- 09 December - [Webinar] AfriAlliance Webinar Series: How to design your data-driven WASH programme for impact, 14:00-15:00 CET
- 10 December - [Hybrid Event] Devex World, Washington, DC, USA and Virtual
- 11 December - [Webinar] Commercialization as organised hypocrisy: The diversion of talk and actions in water services in small towns in Uganda, Mireia Tutusaus Luque, IHE Delft, 15:00-17:00 [read background article]
- 14 December - [Event] World Water Loss Day
- 16 December - [Webinar] IHE Delft MOTA Webinar Series: Extending MOTA, 09:00-11:00
- 16 December - [Webinar] AfriAlliance Webinar Series: The AfriAlliance Needs & Solutions Hub, 14:00-15:00 CET [registration]
- 16-19 December - [Event] Technoscape 2020 - 1st Trans-Asia IWA Young Water Professionals Conference on Smart Technologies for Water and Wastewater Treatment, Vellore, India
2021
January 2021
February 2021
March 2021
May 2021
April 2021
19-23 April - [Event] 25th Global WASH Cluster Annual Meeting and Emergency Environmental Health Forum, Delft, the Netherlands
June 2021
July 2021
August 2021
September 2021
- 05-08 September - [Event] 4th IWA Resource Recovery Conference, Istanbul, Turkey
- 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
- 22-24 September - [Event] 5th International Conference on Water Economics, Statistics and Finance + The International Conference on Rethinking Treatment with Asset Management, Porto, Portugal
October 2021
November 2021
December 2021
2022
January 2022
16-20 January - [Event] 13th IWA International Conference On Water Reclamation and Reuse, Chennai, India
February 2022
March 2022
- 21-26 March - [Event] 9th World Water Forum: Water Security for Peace and Development, Dakar, Senegal
- 22 March - [Event] World Water Day: Groundwater: making the invisible visible
May 2022
October 2022
November 2022
2023
February 2023
March 2023
May 2023
October 2023
November 2023
