Announcements
Announcements
At this year’s event SEI will showcase tools for holistic, efficient and inclusive resource management – illustrated by cases from Bolivia, Colombia, Ghana, Burkina Faso, and the Asia-Pacific region.
Our water and sanitation portfolio includes technical science-based know-how and social innovation.
Photo: Bartosz Hadyniak / Getty Images.
When: Monday 26 August 16:00-17:30
Room: L11
Co-hosted by SIANI, this session will highlight connections between antimicrobial resistance (AMR), Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and health; and explore how One Health and rights-based approaches can provide a framework for solutions.
When: Tuesday 27 August 14:00-15:30
Room: L9
This session will bring together examples of water cycle management across the Asia-Pacific – demonstrating solutions based on scientific, local and indigenous knowledge with the use of innovative technologies, novel business models and multi-stakeholder partnerships.
When: Tuesday 27 August, 09:00-10:30
Room: L8
Understanding different financiers’ expectations of social, economic, environmental, and financial returns is a precondition to successfully attracting money from all available sources, whether public, private or blended. In this session coordinated by the Stockholm Sustainble Finance Center (SSFC), a panel of finance experts will evaluate water project pitches, enabling participants to experience financial decision-making and learn about return expectations and risk appetites.
When: Wednesday 28 August 09:00-10:30
Room: L7
Hosted in collaboration with the Stockholm Climate Security Hub, this session will showcase how climate-driven hazards create risks to human security, and how broader public discussion can mobilize key actors to reduce those risks.
Wednesday 28 August 16:00-17:30
Room: L11
At this session, Sarah Dickin, Research Fellow, SEI will launch the Empowerment in WASH Index (EWI): a new tool for measuring participation, agency and empowerment in WASH-related interventions.
Thursday 29 August 09:00-10:30
Room: M6
This session will showcase and discuss the need for greater integration between WASH, ecosystem and watershed management. Adriana Soto will present the progress and the framework of our work in Bolivia.
Perspective / Sarah Dickin introduces a research project that hopes to develop an index of empowerment to use in water and sanitation interventions.
Journal article / Comparison of two initiatives in Bolivia and South Africa offers insights for introducing off-grid “productive” sanitation systems in peri-urban areas.
Feature / A session at World Water Week asked why win-win opportunities are being ignored.
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