Key conferences, meetings, webinars and international days
Save the date!: 22-26 November - [Event] AMCOW & African Union: 8th Africa Water Week and the 6th Africa Sanitation Conference (AfricaSan6), Namibia [EOI to host a session]
Featured Event: 15 October - Global Handwashing Day: "Our Future is at Hand – Let's Move Forward Together"
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
2021
October 2021
- 29 September - 01 October - [Hybrid Event] Ninth session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention, Geneva, Switzerland
- 01 October - [Webinar] WHO: The State of the World's Hand Hygiene: pre-launch webinar, 15:00 CEST [registration]
- 04 October - [Hybrid Event] United Nations World Data Forum 2021: Session TA4.03 - Ensuring the future of sustainable water data--for citizens, scientists and policymakers, 09:00-10:00 CET, Bern, Switzerland [programme]
- 04-06 October - [Virtual Event] 35th UN-Water Meeting
- 04-08 October - [Virtual Event] German WASH Network: Regional Workshop WASH in Emergencies 2021 Africa (EN)
- 04-08 October - [Virtual Event] The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and World Adaptation Science Program (WASP): Adaptation Futures 2020 - Accelerating Adaptation Action
- 04-09 October - [Virtual Event] UNC Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy
- 05 October - [Webinar] USAID PROWASH: Operation and Maintenance of WASH Infrastructure Webinar Series. Webinar #3: DAI - professionalization, accountability, private-sector engagement, policy & regulations for rural water services, 09:00-10:00 ET | 15:00-16:00 CEST
- 05-07 October - [Virtual Event] UWASNET: 11th National WASH CSO Forum
- 05 October - [Virtual Event] COP26: Water Climate Discussion Series - Water Climate Discussion Conference, 09:00-17:00 BST | 10:00-18:00 CEST [registration]
- 07 October - [Webinar] Embassy of Israel in Ghana & CONIWAS: Innovative Water Supply Technologies - Bringing Water to Rural Ghana, 10:00-12:30 GMT
- 07 October - [Webinar] Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) and WWF: Water Adaptation Community Webinar - Accelerating Adaptation through Large-Scale Nature-Based Solutions, 10:30-12:00 CEST
- 07 October - [Webinar] UNICEF and Hand Hygiene for Asia Partnership: Hand Hygiene for Asia 2021 - Expanding hand hygiene innovations and markets, 11:30-12:30 ICT (Thailand) | 06:30-07:30 CEST [registration]
- 07 October - [Webinar] UNICEF and Hand Hygiene for Asia Partnership: Hand Hygiene for Asia 2021 - Behavioural insights for measurable change on hand hygiene, 14:00-15:00 ICT (Thailand) | 09:30-10:30 CEST [registration]
- 08 October - [Hybrid Event] Centre for Policy Research and WaterAid India: CORP talk on 'Drink from Tap Mission in Puri, Odisha: Implications for Future Urban Water Projects', New Delhi, India, 14:30-16:30 IST | 11:00-13:00 CEST
- 09 October - [Webinar] Global Water Alliance (GWA): Securing the Green to Make it Clean: Funding for Sustainable Sanitation, 11:00-14:30 EDT | 17:00-20:30 CEST
- 12 October - [Webinar] CAWST, PASA & Sanergy: Working Effectively with Manual Pit Emptiers Webinar Series - Session 1: A day in the life of a manual pit emptier, 13:00-14:30 GMT [registration]
- 12 October - [Webinar] Water, Peace and Security partnership (WPS): Water & Conflict in Mali's Inner Niger Delta, 15:00-16:00 CEST
- 12 October - [Virtual Event] COP26: Water Climate Discussion Series - Water Climate Discussion Conference, 09:00-17:00 BST | 10:00-18:00 CEST [registration]
- 12 October - [Webinar] Engineers & Scientists Acting Locally (ESAL): Community-Driven Solutions to Rural Water Needs, 14:00-15:00 ET
- 13 October - [Webinar] ESAWAS Regulators Association: Citywide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) Paper Series Launch - Responsibility, Accountability, Resourcing, 15:00-16:30 CAT/CEST
- 13 October - [Webinar] UNICEF Latin America and the Caribbean: Hand Hygiene in the Safe Return to Schools: Challenges and Learnings, 09:00-11:00 EST | 16:00-18:00 CEST [registration]
- 13-14 October - [Virtual Event] UNEP: The Sanitation and Wastewater Atlas of Africa: a key tool for sustainable wastewater management
- 15 October - [Event] Global Handwashing Day: "Our Future is at Hand – Let's Move Forward Together"
- 15 October - [Webinar] Global Handwashing Day - Launch of The State of the World's Hand Hygiene Report, 09:00 EST | 15:00 CEST [registration]
- 16 October - [Hybrid Event] Rotary District 5450 WASH Committee's 10th Annual Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Symposium, Denver, CO, USA
- POSTPONED 17-21 October - [Event] 9th IWA-ASPIRE Conference and Exhibition 2021, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, China --> 2023
- 18-20 October - [Virtual Event] IWA/TU Delft: 9th Microbial Ecology & Water Engineering Specialist Conference (MEWE 2021)
- 18-28 October - [Virtual Event] COLSAR : II Foro Interamericano de Saneamiento y Agua Rural
- 18-22 and 25-27 October - [Virtual Event] ADB's 2nd e-Marketplace for a Water-Secure and Resilient Asia and the Pacific
- 18-29 October - [Virtual Event] UN-Habitat's Global Water Operators' Partnerships Alliance: 4th Global WOPs Congress
- 19 October - [Webinar] CAWST, PASA & Sanergy: Working Effectively with Manual Pit Emptiers Webinar Series - Session 2: All about tools and technologies, 13:00-14:30 GMT [registration]
- 19 October - [Webinar] Sanitation Community of Practice (SanCopUK): SanCop26/COP26 on climate change and sanitation: 10:00-13:00 BST | 11:00-14:00 CEST [registration]
- 19 October - [Virtual Event] COP26: Water Climate Discussion Series - Water Climate Discussion Conference, 09:00-17:00 BST | 10:00-18:00 CEST [registration]
- 19 October - [Webinar] Global Center on Adaptation - Water Adaptation Community Webinar: Water and Spirituality for Climate Adaptation, 13:00-14:30 CEST
- 19 October - [Webinar] WEF Nexus Webinar series. Webinar #2: Cooperation across borders and sectors: Experiences from the SADC region on insitutionalizing the WEF nexus approach, 13:30-15:00 CEST
- 19 October - [Webinar] USAID PROWASH: Operation and Maintenance of WASH Infrastructure Webinar Series. Webinar #4: Panel Discussion, 09:00-10:00 ET | 15:00-16:00 CEST
- 19 October - [Webinar] CGIAR From Research to Resilience Webinar Series: Managing water for climate adaptation and mitigation, 14:00-15:00 CEST [registration]
- 19 October - [Webinar] FutureDAMS: Integrating water-energy-food-environment planning for climate adaptation and resilience, 16:00-17:00 CEST
- 24-28 October - Hybrid Event] Ministry of Water Resources & Irrigation: Cairo Water Week, Cairo, Egypt
- 25-29 October - [Virtual Event] German WASH Network: Regional Workshop WASH in Emergencies 2021 Asia
- 26 October - [Webinar] CAWST, PASA & Sanergy: Working Effectively with Manual Pit Emptiers Webinar Series - Session 3: Capacity development approaches- increasing knowledge, skills, and abilities, 13:00-14:30 GMT [registration]
November 2021
- November - [Virtual Event] International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases - ISNTD Water 2021: Water, sanitation & infrastructure for tropical health
- TBA November - [Virtual Event] COP26: Water Climate Discussion Series: Live from COP26
- 01-05 November - [Hybrid Event] Amsterdam International Water Week: 'Blue-Green deals with Integrated Solutions
- 01-12 November - [Event] 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- 02 November - [Webinar] CAWST, PASA & Sanergy: Working Effectively with Manual Pit Emptiers Webinar Series - Session 4: Collaborating effectively with manual pit emptiers, 13:00-14:30 GMT [registration]
- 02-05 November - [Hybrid Event] Aquatech Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- 09 November - [Webinar] CAWST, PASA & Sanergy: Working Effectively with Manual Pit Emptiers Webinar Series - Session 5: Building an enabling environment for manual pit emptiers as part of a safely managed sanitation value chain, 13:00-14:30 GMT [registration]
- 09-11 November - [Virtual Event] 1st Virtual IWA Emerging Water Leaders Forum
- 10-11 November - [Virtual Event] 5th ISC - FICCI Sanitation Awards and the India Sanitation Conclave: Sanitation, Gender and The Impact of Covid [registration]
- 17-18 November - [Hybrid Event] The 1st Palestinian-Dutch Conference on Water, sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH), and Climate-Smart agriculture (CSA), An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
- 19 November - [Event] World Toilet Day
- 22-26 November - [Event] AMCOW & African Union: 8th Africa Water Week and the 6th Africa Sanitation Conference (AfricaSan6), Namibia [EOI to convene a session]
- 22-26 November - [Virtual Event] Sanitation Workers Forum 2021: Linking Research, Policy and Practice @SanWorkersForum [call for contributions]
- POSTPONED 29 November - 02 December [Event] IWA Digital Water Summit, Bilbao, Spain --> 29 November - 02 December 2022
- 29 November - 03 December [Event] XVII World Water Congress: Foundations for Global Water Security and Resilience: Knowledge, Technology and Policy, Daegu, Korea
- 29 November - 03 December - [Virtual event] Sanitation Workers Forum 2021 [call for contributions]
December 2021
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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
April 2022
May 2022
June 2022
- 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
- 22-24 June - [Event] IWA: Water Safety Planning 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 - 01 July - [Event] 3rd IWA Disinfection and Disinfection By-Products Conference, Milan, Italy
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