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An increasing number of vulnerable people depend on animals for their survival, livelihoods, and dignity. We all share our water sources with other species. Yet WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) interventions often fail to consider animals’ roles, needs, and impacts on water. Join us for an insightful session at this year’s World Water Week on how WASH interventions can address shared risks and opportunities at the animal, human, and water interfaces.
Woman with donkeys transporting water in Marsabit County, Great Rift Valley, Kenya.
Photo: Santiago Urquijo / Getty
Raise Awareness
To bring visibility to animals as a critical component of WASH contexts
Learn and Share
To offer opportunities for participants to learn and share best practices that widen the scope of questions that can be addressed in WASH interventions
Network
To encourage cross-sectoral cooperation.
The session will explore new ideas and practices across six thematic areas, showcasing initiatives that work across domains to build animals into the WASH equation.
SEI and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), facilitated a network on WASH and One Health in 2022-23, with participants from Burkina Faso, Kenya, and Mozambique. A scoping study focusing on links between WaSH and the prevention of zoonoses was carried out by network partners in Burkina Faso and Kenya. Interviews with WaSH and zoonoses experts revealed barriers, opportunities and research needs for WaSH to be seen as a key tool in zoonoses policies and programs, and conversely, for the prevention of zoonoses to be considered in WaSH policies and programs.
Sarah Dickin – Uppsala University
This is a hybrid event. Online registration is free of charge. Register below to attend.
Project / This transdisciplinary network aims to exchange knowledge and experiences and to develop concepts in applying a One Health approach to WASH.
Project / The Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative – SIANI – is a global network that supports and promotes dialogue and action around food systems.
Media coverage / SEI Africa expert on water systems, Harriette Adhiambo Okal, speaks on 'water wars' and the importance of harnessing technological solutions to water scarcity.
Media coverage / Harriette Adhiambo Okal, Water Systems expert at the SEI Africa speaks on the direct link between water scarcity and economic stability.
Feature / SEI Africa's Harriette Okal discusses the role of water in conflict and cooperation, emphasizing sustainable management and gender equality.
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