Published on: 01/03/2024
Featured Events
- 15-21 March - [Event]: Uganda Ministry of Health, IRC, Water For People & others: Sanitation Week 2024 - Sanitation & Hygiene for All - A Key to Sustainable Health Living [Launch video recording]
- 18-19 March - [Event] UNFCCC Adaptation Committee: Annual Adaptation Forum 2024, Bonn, Germany
- 18-22 March - [Event] Water Resources Institute (WRI): 7th Uganda Water and Environment Week (UWEWK): Rethinking collective action and innovative solutions to water, environment, and climate change crisis in Uganda, Luzira, Uganda
- 21 March - [Hybrid Event] WAI: WASH SDG Event - 'Impact & Lessons Learned', The Hague, the Netherlands, 14:00-17:00 CET [Details & on-site registration]
- 03 April - [Hybrid Event] IRC WASH Debates: Results Count - Getting to know the updated results framework for the Dutch Water Portfolio, The Hague, the Netherlands, 16:00-17:30 CET
- 04 April - [Webinar] WASHWeb Webinar: The Future of Our WASH Data Ecosystem, 15:00 CET
- 18-24 May - [Event] World Water Council - 10th World Water Forum, Bali, Indonesia
event involving IRC as (co-)organiser or contributor
2018-2028: International Decade for Action: Water for sustainable development
2021-2030: UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
WASH discussions: SuSanA Forum | RWSN Dgroups | Yammer: WASH in Schools Network | KnowledgePoint Forum | SNVWater groups
Full overview
2024
March 2024
- 04-07 March - [Event] SIWI & ELI: Women in Water Diplomacy Second Global Network Forum, Vienna, Austria
- 05 March - [Webinar] SWA: LAC Finance Ministers' Meeting: 2nd preparatory webinar, 10:00 EST | 16:00 CET
- 05 March - [Webinar] IHE: GPDP Humanitarian WASH webinar - Safely Managed Sanitation in a Humanitarian Context, 11:00-12:00 CET
- 05 March - [Webinar] IWA & GWP - Webinar series: The power of Nature-Based Solutions for wastewater & stormwater treatment: Cost-Effectiveness and Co-Benefits - Learn how NBS can save you money while delivering multiple environmental and social advantages, 13:00 CET
- 05-07 March - [Event] RAMWEC - Recycling & Waste Management Exhibition & Conference, Beirut, Lebanon
- 06-07 March - [Hybrid Event] Global Smart Water Metering & Intelligent Data Utilisation Congress, London, UK
- 06-08 March - [Event] Water Sector Trust Fund (Kenya): Water and Sanitation Investors Conference (WASIC) 2024, Nairobi, Kenya
- 07 March - [Event] Partners for Water: Mozambique Water Platform Meeting, The Hague, the Netherlands, 09:30-13:30 CET
- 07 March - [Webinar] UNICEF & IRC: Talk Show - Empowering the next systems leaders, 08:00-09:00 ET | 14:00-15:00 CET | 20:00-21:00 ICT
- 07 March - [Event] Netherlands Water Partnership Member Meet-Up, The Hague, the Netherlands, 15:30-18:00 CET
- 07-08 March - [Hybrid Event] University of Colorado Boulder: 12th Annual Colorado WASH Symposium, Boulder, CO, USA [registration]
- 08 March - [Webinar] IWA: Empowering Women in Water: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific Region, 10:00-11:30 CET
- 12 March - [Webinar] EPRC: Future of Think Tanks in Sub-Saharan Africa: Positioning think-tanks to support the African Union policy agenda at the G20, 11:00 EAT | 09:00 CET
- 12 March - [Webinar] USAID/WASHPaLS #2: No Service Delivery Without Jobs: Responding to human resource challenges in the rural sanitation and hygiene workforce, 10:00-11:00 ET | 16:00-17:00 CET
- 12-15 March - [Event] UNFCCC: Twenty-fifth meeting of the Adaptation Committee (AC25), Bonn, Germany
- 13 March - [Webinar] VU Amsterdam: WSJUST webinar series: Water Scarcity Through the lens of Water Security - Lecture by Dr Chloé Nicolas-Artero's, 16:00-17:00 CET
- 15-21 March - [Event]: Uganda Ministry of Health, IRC, Water For People & others: Sanitation Week 2024 - Sanitation & Hygiene for All - A Key to Sustainable Health Living [Launch video recording]
- 18-19 March - [Hybrid Event] EC: European Humanitarian Forum, Brussels, Belgium
- 18-19 March - [Event] UNFCCC Adaptation Committee: Annual Adaptation Forum 2024, Bonn, Germany
- 18-19 March - [Event] Smart WASH Solutions: Regional Conference on Rainwater Harvesting and Management, Kathmandu, Nepal
- 18-22 March - [Event] Water Resources Institute (WRI): 7th Uganda Water and Environment Week (UWEWK): Rethinking collective action and innovative solutions to water, environment, and climate change crisis in Uganda, Luzira, Uganda
- 18-24 March - [Global Event] Thirst Foundation: World Water Run
- 19 March - [Event] IHE Delft & SNV: 10 years of Urban Sanitation & Hygiene – what has happened and what needs to be done? [scroll to end of newsletter], Delft, the Netherlands, 16:00-17:30 CET
- 19 March - [Webinar] Advancing solutions for water-related challenges in Latin America together: Webinar 1 - Nature-based Solutions, 16:30-18:30 CET
- 19 March - [Hybrid Event] GWC & German WASH Network: Joined-up action for collective outcomes - accelerating access and coordination for water, sanitation and hygiene in fragile contexts and forgotten crises, Brussels, Belgium, 15.45-17.00 CET
- 19-20 March - [Event] 12th ICT4D Conference, Accra, Ghana
- 20 March - [Webinar] IWA & Cranfield University: Water and Sanitation Jobs: bridging the skills gap, 14:00-15:30 CET
- 20 March - [Webinar] VU Amsterdam: WSJUST webinar series: Don't blame climate change: urban droughts and the politics of water (in)security - Lecture by Dr. Maria Rusca, 16:00-17:00 CET
- 21 March - [Hybrid Event] WAI: WASH SDG Event - 'Impact & Lessons Learned', The Hague, the Netherlands, 14:00-17:00 CET [Details & on-site registration]
- 21 March - [Event] IHE Delft: Water for Peace and Security Symposium, Delft, the Netherlands, 17:30-20:00 CET
- 22 March - [Global Event] World Water Day
- 22 March - [Event] UNESCO & UNECE: World Water Development Report 2024 - Paris Launching Event, Paris, France, 10:00-18:00 CET
- 22 March - [Hybrid Event] World Vision: 2024 World Water Day Livestream, Chicago, IL, USA, 08:00-21:00 CT | 14:00-01:00 CET
- 22 March - [Event] NICC & IHE-Delft: Debat Internationale (Ontwikkelings)Samenwerking en Water - a Debate among Young People on Development Cooperation, Delft, The Netherlands, 16:00-19:00 CET
- 24 March - [Webinar] International Association for Water Law (AIDA): The Role of Water Law in Fostering Water for Peace, 15:00-16:30 CET
- 26-27 March - [Event] OECD: 2024 Global Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum - Designing our future with integrity, Paris, France
- 27 March - [Webinar] WIN: Integrity Talk 10: Youth for Integrity in water and sanitation, 12:00 CET [Register]
- 28 March - [Webinar] WIN, Bonn Water Network & GWOPA: Gender and Sanitation, 13:00 (tbc) - contact for invitation at info@win-s.org
April 2024
- 03 April - [Webinar] VU Amsterdam: WSJUST webinar series: Treading the complexities of living with(out) waters - Stories from the Philippine and Peruvian Amazon - Lecture by Heidi Mendoza, 16:00-17:00 CET
- 03 April - [Hybrid Event] IRC WASH Debates: Results Count - Getting to know the updated results framework for the Dutch Water Portfolio, The Hague, the Netherlands, 16:00-17:30 CET
- 04 April - [Webinar] WASHWeb Webinar: The Future of Our WASH Data Ecosystem, 15:00 CET
- 05 April - [Event] IHE: Mini Symposium & Inaugural address Professor Ioana Popescu - Mapping hydroinformatics on the Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Landscape, Delft, the Netherlands, 15:00-18:00 CET
- 07 April - [Global Event] World Health Day
- 09-12 April - [Hybrid Event] Skoll World Forum, Oxford, UK
- 10 April - [Webinar] VU Amsterdam: WSJUST webinar series: New and old watergates: biophysical and water tenure controls on water access in conditions of scarcity - Lecture by Prof Paolo D'Odorico, 16:00-17:00 CET
- 14-17 April - [Event] IWA-WLSG: Water Loss 2024, San Sebastián, Spain
- 15-17 April - [Event] Global Water Summit 2024: Security for a Changing Planet, London, UK
- 18 April - [Webinar] FSN Network & PRO-WASH & SCALE: Making Markets Work for Hygiene - Engaging the Private Sector for Healthier Communities, 07:00-08:00 ET | 12:00-13:00 CET
- 19 April - [Event] SWA, IADB & UNICEF: Latin America and the Caribbean Finance Ministers' Meeting (LAC FMM), Washington, DC, USA
- 24 April - [Webinar] VU Amsterdam: WSJUST webinar series: What we learned about environmental justice looking at water in mining conflicts - Lecture by Beatriz Rodríguez Labajos, 16:00-17:00 CET
- 29 April - 10 May - [Hybrid Event] Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks, Geneva, Switzerland
- 30 April - [Webinar] FSN Network & PRO-WASH & SCALE: Lessons and Perspectives from Water Security and Resilience Activities in the Sahel - Part I, 09:30-10:00 ET | 14:30-16:00 CET
- 30 April - 02 May - [Virtual Event] Collective Impact Forum: Collective Impact Action Summit
May 2024
- 01 May - [Webinar] VU Amsterdam: WSJUST webinar series: Negotiating nature(s) - Decision-making on mining projects through a multi-dimensional environmental justice lens - Lecture by Mirja Schoderer, 16:00-17:00 CET
- 05 May - [Global Event] WHO: World Hand Hygiene Day
- 08-09 May - [Event] On Think Tanks & Fundació Bofill: OTT Conference 2024, Barcelona, Spain [register interest]
- 08-10 May - [Event] Priorities 2024 Conference: 14th Conference of the International Society for Priorities in Health (ISPH), Bangkok, Thailand
- 13-14 May - [Event] 28th Global WASH Cluster Annual Meeting, Zürich, Switzerland
- 14-15 May - [Event] EWA, IWA & NULS: WMCC 2024: Water Management in Changing Conditions at the IFAT-Munich exhibition, Munich, Germany
- 14-24 May - [Event] 6th General Assembly of the World Youth Parliament for Water: Building bridges for a water-secure world, Bali, Indonesia
- 15 May - [Webinar] FSN Network & PRO-WASH & SCALE: Lessons and Perspectives from Water Security and Resilience Activities in the Sahel - Part II, 10:30-12:00 ET | 15:30-17:00 CET
- 15-16 May - [Hybrid Event] Global WASH Cluster: National Coordination Platforms Workshop [Save the Date]
- 15-17 May - [Hybrid Event] Emergency Environmental Health Forum, EAWAG, Dübendorf, Switzerland
- 17-20 May - [Event] IWA Conference on Sustainable Sludge Management, Beijing, China
- 18-24 May - [Event] World Water Council - 10th World Water Forum, Bali, Indonesia
- 20-24 May - [Event] 17th IFEH World Congress on Environmental Health, Perth, Australia
- 21-22 May - [Event] AMSE, LSHTM & IFS: WASH Economics Conference, Marseille, France
- 27-29 May - [Event] Biennial WISA 2024 Conference: Turning the Tide, Durban, South Africa
- 27-31 May - [Event] 15th International Conference on Hydroinformatics (HIC 2024): From Nature to Digital Water - Challenges and Opportunities, Beijing, China
- 29-31 May - [Event] eLearning Africa: 17th International Conference & Exhibition on Digital Education, Training & Skills Development, Kigali, Rwanda
- 30 May - [Webinar] Advancing solutions for water-related challenges in Latin America together: Webinar 2 - Emergency Management, 16:30-18:30 CET
June 2024
- 02-06 June - [Event] 18th IWA World Conference on Anaerobic Digestion, Istanbul, Turkey
- 09-14 June - [Event] Delft University of Technology, 16th International Conference on Urban Drainage 2024 (ICUD 2024), Delft, the Netherlands
- 12-13 June - [Hybrid Event] TechChange, USAID, Chemonics, IBM & DAI: Global Digital Development Forum (GDDF 2024), Washington, DC, USA
- 16-20 June - [Event] 13th IWA Micropol and Ecohazard Conference - Towards a Low Ecological and Health Risk Water Environment, Taipei, Taiwan
- 18-21 June - [Event] IWA: International Conference on Wider-Uptake of Water Resource Recovery from Wastewater Treatment (ICWRR 2024), Palermo, Italy
- 18-22 June - [Event] Singapore International Water Week, Singapore
- 19-21 June - [Event] Environmental Peacebuilding Association & Leiden University: Third International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding [Water is one of the 5 themes], The Hague, the Netherlands
- 24-28 June - [Event] 18th IWA Leading Edge Conference on Water and Wastewater Technologies, Essen, Germany
July 2024
August 2024
September 2024
- 04-06 September - [Event] IWA: 6th International Conference for Water Safety, Montevideo, Uruguay
- 04-06 September - [Event] IWRA: First Islands Water Congress - Freshwater and Islands: Administration, Collaboration and Innovation, Faroe Islands
- 08-13 September - [Event] IAH2024Davos: World Groundwater Congress [Incl. sessions on Self-supply and Groundwater for drinking water & sustainable livelihoods for low-income communities], Davos, Switzerland [Abstract deadline: 29 Feb]
- 09-13 September - [Virtual Event] Water and Climate Resilience: 43rd WEDC International Conference
- 10-12 September - [Event] 19th EverythingAboutWater Expo 2024, New Delhi, India
- 22-23 September - [Event] UN Summit of the Future, New York, NY USA
October 2024
November 2024
- 10-14 November - [Event] 17th IWA Small Water and Wastewater Systems and 9th IWA Resource Oriented Sanitation, Curtiba, Brazil
- 11-22 November - [Event] UN Climate Change Conference (COP-29), Baku, Abseron, Azerbaijan
- 12-14 November - [Event] IEREK: 1st international conference on Sustainable Water Management and Resource Adaptation: Security and Energy Nexus, Paris, France
- 17-21 November - [Event] IWA/University of Queensland: Nutrient Removal and Recovery Conference 2024, Gold Coast, Australia
- 19 November - [Global Event] World Toilet Day
- 24-29 November - [Event] IWA & AFD: 18th International Conference on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control, Fort-de-France, Martinique
December 2024
2025
February 2025
March 2025
Jun 2025
2026
2028
- [tbd] 2028 - [Event] United Nations Conference on the Final Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Decade for Action, "Water for Sustainable Development", 2018–2028, Dushanbe, Tajikistan [UN General Assembly, 77th session, A/77/L.106, 28 Aug 2023]