Posts filed under ‘Netherlands’
The right to water and water rights in a changing world, Delft, The Netherlands, 22 September 2010
Organised by: University for Peace, UNESCO-IHE, The Netherlands National IHP Committee, CPWC, PCCP, Netherlands National Commission for UNESCO
Colloquium in the framework of 30 years University for Peace. In the face of global changes, what role can law play in safeguarding basic needs and rights, including that of water? Can law be more effectively mobilized to better protect vulnerable communities against droughts, floods and other climate related disasters? In so doing, to what extend can it contribute to world peace? As laws tend to be rigid, how can they play a more progressive role in a rapidly changing world? Currently water management is stepping away from the idea of stationarity – but what about legal issues? Are they set in stone?
Location: UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, the Netherlands
Symposium Pumps, Pipes and Promises – Costs, Finances and Accountability for Sustainable WASH services, The Hague, The Netherlands, 15-18 November 2010
Organised by: IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
The IRC Symposium 2010 will focus on three themes in the provision and use of decentralised WASH services, and the linkages between them:
- How much does it cost to provide WASH services?
- How to finance WASH Services?
- How to ensure accountability in provision of WASH services?
Each theme will address the challenge of these issues against a background of decentralisation in the sector and the need to provide to sustainable WASH services to all, especially the poorest. It will address in depth some of the key governance challenges in the sector: those related to cost effectiveness, finances and financing.
Read the first announcement
Go to Symposium web site
Decentralised Water Supply and Sanitation, UNESCO-IHE, The Netherlands, 05-23 July 2010
This 3-week course provides theoretical background and practical expertise in the field of low-cost decentralised water supply and sanitation alternatives specifically suitable for the small towns, peri-urban areas and urban slums, small island communities, tourist resorts etc.
Organised by: UNESCO-IHE Instituite for Water Education with guest lecturers from IRC and SANDEC
Target group: Mid-career professionals dealing with planning and management aspects of water supply and sanitation infrastructures, working for municipalities, government ministries, water supply agencies or consulting firms.
Programme:
- Introduction: Module objectives and contents (General introduction to water supply and sanitation situations in small town, peri-urban areas and urban slums etc.)
- Water Supply Systems: Water sources, supply systems, source selection, water supply service levels, spring catchments and sand dams, wells and pumps, rainwater harvesting, small-scale water treatment methods.
- Sanitation Systems: Ecological sanitation (introduction to ecosan, basics of conventional wastewater treatment, relevant treatment technologies, ecosan and agriculture, greywater treatment and reuse, linkages between ecosan and Millennium Development Goals). Faecal Sludge Management, Low-cost Sewerage and Drainage
- Management aspects of DWSS: Participatory planning and evaluation of DWSS systems, financing and cost recovery, institutional arrangements and operation and maintenance aspects.
Course fee: €2250 [fellowships available]
Registration deadline: 05 June 2010
For more information, course brochure and application form, go to the UNESCO-IHE web site
Global CityWater Futures Summit: Learning Alliances for Change, Delft, The Netherlands, 7-10 October 2009
Organised by: SWITCH project
The Summit will bring together over 50 science experts from around the world with practitioners from cities in Africa, Europe, South America, Asia, the Middle East as well as donor groups and international organisations to join forces in accelerating change toward a more sustainable water City of the Future.
Programme:
7 October – Global and Local Initiatives
Keynote presentations by leaders of global and local inititiatives that are making an impact toward more sustainable urban water management.
8 October – Exchanging Knowledge and Experiences
Interactive workshops around the topics of strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, system transitioning and decision making as well as an innovation marketplace of intiatives and new technologies.
9 October – Preparing for a Sustainable Future
Use of case studies and interactive workshops to help cities chart their strategic path to a more sustainable future.
10 October – Visiting Projects That are Making a Difference
A visit to sites in Rotterdam and Culemborg where the ideas of sustainable urban water management are being put into practice.
19th European Congress of Soroptimist International of Europe: ‘Soroptimists go for Water’, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10-12 July 2009
Soroptimist International of Europe (SI/E) is one of four federations of Soroptimist International (SI), a worldwide network of women in management and professions, committed to providing assistance and service at local, national and international levels.
SI/E has chosen ‘water’ as its theme during the period 2007–2011 (see the “Soroptimists go for Water” web site). During the conference, successful SI/E-sponsored projects in Africa and Europe will be discussed.
Programme:
- Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation: a Human Right or a Need?
- Prof. Joyeeta Gupta and Dr. Rhodante Ahlers, Delft University of Technology and UNESCO/IHE Institute for Water Education, Prof. Ellen Hey, Erasmus University, and Dr. Kiki Bröhlmann, University of Amsterdam. - Gender Equity and Empowerment of Women
- Dr. Christine Sijbesma, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, and Joke Muylwijk, Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) - Functional Networking
- Women for Water Partnership - Sanitation projects in Africa
- AMREF/Flying Doctors - Water, Sanitation, Health and Hygiene
- Saskia Geling, Simavi - Economic Development and Microfinance
- Frederik Claasen, advisor Micro Water Facility of Wash Secretariat, NWP Netherlands Water Partnership, Kajetan Hetzer, SNS Reaal Waterfonds, Fon Koemans - Ecological Sanitation in Eastern Central Europe
- Sacha Garbizon and Margriet Samwel, WECF Women in Europe for a Common Future, Dipl.-Ing. Claudia Wendland, Hamburg University of Technology, Institute of Wastewater Management and Water Protection. - Rainwater Harvesting
- Sasja Kamil , Cordaid
Prior to the congress, on 09 July, Women for Water Partnership, Soroptimists go for Water and Aqua for All, are organising a matchmaking event where grassroot women organisations will present eight water and sanitation projects.
