WASH events calendar

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2021-2030: UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

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• Specialist course: Building blocks of sustainable WASH systems
• NEW! Specialist course: Advocating for universal WASH services 

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2020

September 2020

• 02 September - [Webinar] WHO NTD webinar series: How can WASH help reach the 2030 Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) targets?,14:00-15.30 CEST
• 02-04 September - [Virtual Event] WATEF Conference 2020: Moving towards water resilient communities
• 02-04 September - [Virtual Event] 63rd ACODAL International Water Congress and Expo
• 03 September - [Webinar] WaterAid Safety and well-being of sanitation workers during COVID-19 in South Asia, 14:30-16:00 Pakistan / 15:00-16:30 India / 15:15–16:45 Nepal / 15:30 -17:00 Bangladesh
• 03 September - [Virtual Event] SWA: Launch of the Handbook for Finance Ministers & kick-off of the 2020 Finance Ministers' Meetings Preparatory Process, 13:00 CEST,/ 06:00 Mexico City / 07:00 New York / 11:00 Dakar / 12:00 Abuja / 18:00 Bangkok
• 08 September - [Webinar] Standards for Menstrual Cups, 15:00-16:30 CEST
• Cancelled - 08 September - [Event] Waterinfodag, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
• 11 September - [Webinar] NWP Meet-up, 16:00 -17:30 CEST
• 13-18 September - [Hybrid Event] Uganda Water and Environment Week Online (UWEWK 2020), Kampala, Uganda and online
• 15-17 September - [Virtual Event] 2020 Rich Earth Virtual Summit: Reclaiming Urine as a Resource
• 18 September - [Virtual Event] Launch of the UNICEF Vision for Leveraging Repayable Finance in WASH, 08:00 am EST. Join with this Zoom link
• Postponed - 16-18 September - [Event] Water Africa & East Africa Building and Construction Exhibition and Seminars, Kigali, Rwanda --> 10-12 March 2021
• 21 September - [Webinar] in conjunction with International Day of Peace: High-Level Panel on Water Diplomacy - Together for Climate-Smart Security, 14:00 -15:30 CEST
• Postponed: 21-24 September - [Event] Africa Water Security Congress, Nairobi, Kenya --> replaced by virtual event (see below)
• 21 September - [Virtual Event] Africa Source Water Protection Seminar, 14:00-16:30 EAT | 13:00-15:30 CEST [Agenda] | [Registration] 
• 22-23 September - [Event] World Humanitarian Forum, New York, NY, USA
• 22-24 September - [Virtual Event] UWASNET Annual CSO WASH Forum
• 23 September - [Webinar] Studio MH (Menstrual Hygiene) Day: Impact, 15:00-17:00 CEST [add to calendar]
• 24 September - [Virtual Event] UN General Assembly Side Event: Stopping a Global Pandemic Without Water? How WASH is a Neglected Critical Element of Health Security, 08:30 am EDT | 14:30 pm CEST | 15:30 pm EAT
• 29-30 September - [Virtual Event] 33rd UN-Water Meeting

October 2020

• 07 October - [Webinar] Strengthening African stakeholders to face climate change impacts: The AfriAlliance approach, 14:00 - 15:00 CEST
• 07-09 October - [Event] SFD [Shit Flow Diagram] week 2020, Neemli, Rajasthan, India
• 15 October - [Event] Global Handwashing Day
• 20-21 October - [Hybrid Event] GRoW final conference: Water as a Global Resource Conference, Berlin, Germany and Virtual
• 26-30 October - [Virtual Event] - UNC Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy
• 27-29 October - [Event] 4th G-STIC conference, Brussels, Belgium
• 28-30 October - [Virtual Event] Final AfriAlliance Conference, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
• 28-30 October - [Virtual Event] IWRA Online Conference- "Addressing Groundwater Resilience under Climate Change"

November 2020

• 04 November - [Virtual Event] SWA Africa Regional Finance Ministers' Meeting
  
• 08-12 November - [Event] Sixth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR2020): Re-imagining health systems for better health and social justice, Dubai, UAE
• 18 November - [Virtual Event] SWA Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Finance Ministers' Meeting
• 19 November - [Event] World Toilet Day 
• Postponed - 24-26 November - [Event] African Utility Week, Cape Town, South Africa --> 11-13 May 2021
• 30 November -03 December - [Event] IWA Digital Water Summit, Bilbao, Spain

December 2020

• 02 December - [Virtual Event] SWA Asia & Pacific Regional Finance Ministers' Meeting
• 02 December - 26 February 2021 - [Hybrid Event] Africa Knows! It is time to decolonise minds, The Hague, the Netherlands and Virtual
• 07-11 December - [Virtual Event] WISA 2020 Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa
• 10 December - [Hybrid Event] Devex World, Washington, DC, USA and Virtual
• 14 December - [Event] World Water Loss Day

2021

January 2021

• 07-15 January - [Event] IUCN World Conservation Congress, Marseilles, France

February 2021

• 02 February - [Event] World Wetlands Day 
• 08-12 February - [Event] 8th Africa Water Week: Water Security for Development and Human Health, Windhoek, Namibia
• Postponed - 22-26 February - [Event] Water and WASH Futures 2021: Achieving SDG 6 in a Changing Climate, Brisbane, Australia --> 14–18 February 2022

March 2021

• 01-03 March - [Event] Water Security and Climate Change conference (WSCC), Hanoi, Viet Nam
• 10-12 March - [Event] Water Africa & East Africa Building and Construction Exhibition and Seminars, Kigali, Rwanda
• 22 March - [Event] World Water Day: Valuing Water 
• 22-27 March - [Event] 9th World Water Forum: Water Security for Peace and Development, Dakar, Senegal 

May 2021

• 09-14 May - [Event] IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition: Shaping Our Water Future, Water for smart liveable cities, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 11-13 May 2021 - [Event] African Utility Week, Cape Town, South Africa
• 16-18 May - [Event] Global Water Summit: Challenging Assumptions, Madrid, Spain
• 28 May - [Event] Menstrual Hygiene Day 
• 31 May - 04 June - [Event] 6th International Faecal Sludge Management Conference (FSM6), Jakarta, Indonesia 

June 2021

• 07-10 June - [Event] 8th International Congress & Exhibition on Arsenic in the Environment, Wageningen, The Netherlands
• 14-16 June - [Event] DevRes 2021: Advancing Sustainable Transformation, Umeå, Sweden
• 20-24 June - [Event] Singapore International Water Week (SIWW), Singapore 

July 2021

• 04-09 July - [Event] 39th IAHR World Congress: From Snow to Sea. Granada
• 05-08 July - [Event] 1st IWA Non-Sewered Sanitation Conference, Pretoria, South Africa 
• 06-08 July - [Event] Nature-based Solutions (NbS) Conference University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 
• 14-16 July - [Event] Water Africa & West Africa Building and Construction Exhibition and Seminars, Accra, Ghana 

September 2021

• 06–10 September - [Event] 42nd WEDC International Conference: Equitable and Sustainable WASH Services: celebrating our learning from failure and success, Loughborough, UK
• 13-17 September - [Event] XVII World Water Congress: Foundations for Global Water Security and Resilience: Knowledge, Technology and Policy, Daegu, Korea

October 2021

• 04-09 October - [Event] UNC Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
• 15 October - [Event] Global Handwashing Day

November 2021

• 01-12 November - [Event] 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), Glasgow, Scotland, UK
• 19 November - [Event] World Toilet Day

December 2021

• 14 December - [Event] World Water Loss Day

2022

February 2022

• 02 February - [Event] World Wetlands Day
• 14-18 February - [Event] Water and WASH Futures 2022: Achieving SDG 6 in a Changing Climate, Brisbane, Australia

March 2022

• 22 March - [Event] World Water Day: Groundwater: making the invisible visible

May 2022

• 28 May - [Event] Menstrual Hygiene Day

October 2022

• 15 October - [Event] Global Handwashing Day
• 24-28 October - [Event] UNC Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

November 2022

• 19 November - [Event] World Toilet Day

2023

February 2023

• 02 February - [Event] World Wetlands Day

March 2023

• 22 March - [Event] World Water Day
• 22-24 March - [Event] UN Conference on the Midterm Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Decade for Action, "Water for Sustainable Development", 2018–2028, New York, NY, USA

May 2023

• 28 May - [Event] Menstrual Hygiene Day

October 2023

• 15 October - [Event] Global Handwashing Day
• 23-27 October - [Event] UNC Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

November 2023

• 19 November - [Event] World Toilet Day