3rd Ghana Water Forum, [venue to be confirmed], 6-8 September 2011

Theme: Water and Sanitation Services Delivery in a Rapidly Changing Urban Environment

The Ghana Water Forum is an annual water & sanitation sector review and learning event for all sector stakeholders.

Topics:

• Achieving the Water and Sanitation MDGs
• Rapid Urbanization and the lag in service delivery
• Development and Management of Urban Water Resources
• Dealing with Long term uncertainties and Global Change Pressures
• Sanitation and Wastewater Use
• Economic Regulation and Innovative Financing
• Governance, Policy and Management
• Knowledge and Capacity Development
• Service Delivery Approach
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Rural-Urban Interface and Challenges

Side events:

• Ministerial and Development Partners Roundtable
• Business Roundtable
• Youth and Children’s Forum
• Exhibition

Deadline for submission of papers: 04 July 2011

Deadline for submission of PowerPoint presentations: 18 August 2011

For more information and registration details go to the Ghana Water Forum web site

West Africa Regional Sanitation and Hygiene Symposium, Accra, Ghana, 10-12 Nov 09

This regional sharing and learning symposium is the first major event marking the collaboration between RCN Ghana, WaterAid, and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre in West Africa.

Objectives:

• To identify and share experiences of good practice in promotion of good hygiene behaviour and ensuring sustained access to sanitation in particular for the poor and vulnerable in West Africa;
• To identify key policy messages based on these experiences to be promoted at subsequent advocacy opportunities;
• To identify and initiate joint action-learning; and
• To begin the process of developing a community of practice on sanitation and hygiene promotion at the West Africa level.

Abstract deadline: 01 June 2009

Further information and submission of abstracts: westafricasymposium@irc.nl

Read the first announcement and call for abstracts here.