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6th Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) Forum, Kampala, Uganda, 29 November – 01 December 2011
Theme: Rural Water Supply in the 21st Century: Myths of the Past, Visions for the Future
Organised by: Skat, UNICEF, the Water and Sanitation Programme of the World Bank (WSP), IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), WaterAid and the Ministry of Water and Environment in Uganda
Target group: small private enterprises, political leaders from a local level, local and central government administrators, extension staff, NGO staff and donors.
Programme:
- Day 1: Overview of Rural Water Supplies. Success and failures in the past and RWSN achievements
- Day 2: Sustainability of Rural Water Supplies and islands of success from around the world
- Day 3: Vision for Rural Water Supplies, with promising ways of dealing with emerging challenges
- Day 4: (optional): field visits and seminars on:
- Life-Cycle Costs Approach (IRC-WASHCost)*
- Water Point Mapping (WaterAid)
- Photovoltaic Services for Developing Countries (Entec AG)
*Seminar on the Life-Cycle Costs Approach, Friday 2 December 2011 09.00 – 17.00
The life-cycle cost approach consists of a methodology that has been developed for costing sustainable water and sanitation services by assessing life-cycle costs and comparing them against levels of service provided. In this seminar, we will focus on the use of the life-cycle costs approach for water and sanitation in rural and peri-urban areas building on experiences in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Andhra Pradesh (India) and Mozambique. What are the minimum data needs and how are they determined? Which data collection tools can be used? How can costs and service levels be analysed to draw conclusions? Delegates can register for the training through by sending an email to Audrey van Soest: soest@irc.nl
About 300 – 500 participants from all over the world are expected to attend the event and share their practical experiences and good practices on a wide range of aspects of rural water supplies. These include cost-effective technologies, accelerating self supply, management and support systems, catchment protection and finance.
The Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) is a global knowledge network with over 2,000 members. It focuses on four flagship themes: cost-effective boreholes, self supply, sustainable rural water supplies and handpump technologies.
Conference web site: rwsnforum.wordpress.com
3rd Africa Water Week, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 22-26 November 2010
Organised by: African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW)
Theme: Africa’s Water and Sanitation Challenges and Opportunities to implement the Africa Water Vision and the MDGs.
Registration fee: € 100
To contact the organisers and for more information go to the AMCOW web site
International African Water and Sanitation Congress and Exhibition, Kampala, Uganda, 15-18 March 2010
Organised by: African Water Association (AfWA) and National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC), Uganda
Theme: Water and sanitation: what perspectives facing energy challenges and climate change
Technical Sessions
- Partnership and contractualisation for a better water and sanitation service: financing, the WOP Initiative, approaches;
- Prospects: sustainable service delivery, investment financing for the poor, strengthening capacity building and governance
- Information and communication technology in water and sanitation management: research, networking and knowledge management for learning organisations; integration of research based, appropriate technologies, and knowledge, networking options/innovations to reduce climate change
Symposium on climate change and energy issues
8th International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH), Nairobi, Kenya, 18-23 Oct 2009
Organized by: the International Society for Urban Health (ISUH) in partnership with the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) and the Government of the Republic of Kenya, through the Ministry of Nairobi Metropolitan Development.
The Theme of the 2009 ICUH is “Meeting Urban Health Needs through Innovative Research, Policies and Interventions”.
The overall emphasis will be on reproductive, maternal, and child health as well as housing, water and sanitation, among other sub-themes.
Abstract deadline: 30 May 2009
For more information go to the conference web site
