Water, sanitation and hygiene learning sessions

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The WASH Learning sessions will present real-world cases, evidence and participant experiences in strengthening and changing water, sanitation and hygiene systems. They will share successfully scaled solutions, but also unpack failures and challenges in strengthening and changing systems.

Theme 1 - Safely-managed water and sanitation for all: financing and delivering

This thematic area focuses on the strengthening of systems for utility and other forms of professionalised water and sanitation services including examples of what works at city and local levels, and how to build up the national systems that enable utilities and other professional service providers to operate. It also considers the different service delivery models that make universal access a reality and how these are planned.

• Key questions this theme will address
  
  1. How are systems approaches supporting service authorities and providers to deliver better services that meet the needs of all citizens, and what are the key constraints and challenges they face?
  
  2. What are the latest frameworks, tools, mechanisms, examples, and experiences in strengthening the systems that enable the delivery of professionally and safely-managed services for all as demanded by the SDGs?
  
  

Theme 2 - Markets and behaviour change: how people invest and driving to scale

This theme will focus on public and private sector roles when it comes to creating an enabling environment for scaling markets and influencing behaviour.

• Key questions this theme will address
  
  1. How are we making decisions as consumers in lower/middle-income countries, and how are markets expanding the provision of safely-managed water and sanitation services in urban and rural contexts; what are the key constraints and opportunities for different actors in scaling markets?
  
  2. How are individuals and households making decisions to invest and change their behaviour? How are providers of products and services and other actors responding to these demands?
  
  

Theme 3 - Water resource management: finding systemic solutions

This theme will focus on managing water as both a source and a sink for pollutants, including those resulting from human excreta or solid waste production. It will also consider how climate change and technological innovation are reframing the challenges but also creating new opportunities for multi-stakeholder water management.

• Key questions this theme will address
  
  1. In the context of climate change and other threats, how are improvements in water resources management rising to the challenge of sustainably meeting all needs and protecting valuable water resources?
  2. What are the best approaches to manage risks and sustain drinking water and sanitation services in the face of new and worsening threats?
  
  

Theme 4 - Governments, politics and systems change

This theme will focus on how governments are rising to the challenge of putting in place the conditions to deliver sustained progress at scale, harnessing and coordinating the power of all WASH actors. It will discuss the threats that undermine progress including deficits in integrity and good governance and how these can be tackled.

• Key questions this theme will address
  
  1. What can we learn to replicate successes and overcome recurrent constraints?
  2. How do we need to adapt our approaches, as sector professionals or policy influencers, to different types and styles of government?
  
  

Theme 5 - Systems change and collective action

This thematic area will focus on how change is being made in specific places and parts of the WASH system to address the needs of key communities, and how we can rethink or redefine those boundaries. This includes, but is not limited to, WASH in fragile states/humanitarian settings, WASH services in schools, health care facilities and other institutional settings, as well as WASH contexts in specific countries and regions.

• Key questions this theme will address
  
  1. How can we take collective action?
  2. How can we identify transferrable lessons and insights from a unique context for application in other areas?
  
  
  

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