Bringing together research with policy, practice and networking events.
The 2019 Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy, organised by the Water Institute at UNC explores drinking water supply, sanitation, hygiene and water resources in both the developing and developed worlds with a strong public health emphasis.
Published on: 05/09/2019
IRC and partners will be organising a number of side events and presentations at the UNC Water and Health Conference, find the overview below:
Time/Room | Session Title | Convenors |
8:30-10:00am | WASH Systems Strengthening in 6 African Countries: The Journey So Far | IRC, Conrad N Hilton Foundation |
8:30-10:00am | "Are We on Track?" Using Evidence to Adapt WASH Programs for Sustainable, Inclusive Outcomes | CARE, WaterAid, Water For People |
10:30am-12:00pm | Rethinking Rural Sanitation: Equitable, Flexible and Adaptive Rural Sanitation Programmes at Scale | World Bank, UNICEF, WaterAid, Plan International |
10:30am-12:00pm | Existing Evidence on WASH for Nutrition: Implications for Programming and Policy. Where to now? | WaterAid, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Bank |
10:30am-12:00pm | Getting Traction with Collective Action: Energising and Empowering Local Systems for WASH Services | USAID, University of Colorado Boulder (UCB), Tetra Tech, IRC, Millennium Water Alliance, Hilton Foundation |
2:30pm | National Advocacy for Menstrual Hygiene Management in Uganda – Policy Achievements and the Role of Government | Jane Nabunnya Mulumba, IRC Uganda |
Time / Room | Session Title | Panelists/Conveners |
8:30–10:00am | You Talk a Big (Systems Change) Talk… Now Measure It | Water For People, Environmental Incentives, Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership |
8:30–10:00am | Using Prize Mechanism to Induce Public Private Partnership Financing of Sanitation: Lessons from Ghana | IRC Ghana, Community Water and Sanitation Agency Ghana, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, IMC Worldwide |
1:00pm | Breaking Up is Hard to Do – Planning an Exit Strategy | Clarissa Brocklehurst - The Water Institute at UNC |
Time / Room | Session Title | Conveners |
8:30-10:00am | Professionalised Customer Support to Increase Quality, Accountability, Collaborative Practice, and Mobilise Popular Support for WASH | IRC Ghana, Netcentric Campaigns, Asutifi North District Assembly, Conrad N.Hilton Foundation |
10:30am-12:00pm | From Data to Decisions: Promoting Evidence-based Decision Making through External Investments in Country-led Monitoring
| WaterAid |
10:30am-12:00pm | Sanitation Workers: The Missing Link in the Sanitation Chain | The World Bank, WaterAid, ILO, WHO |
10:30am-12:00pm | De-bunking Myths About Market-based Approaches in ‘Difficult’ Contexts | Oxfam GB, Water for Good |
4:00pm | Capacity-building for Improved WASH Governance through Tracking and Analysis of Decentralised Budgets and Financial Systems | Ruchika Shiva, IRC |
Time / Room | Session Title | Conveners |
8:30-10:00am | Resilient WASH: A Strategy for Climate Change Adaptation | WaterAid America |
10:30am-12:00pm | Gender Integration into WASH Programming – Not Just Numbers of Women | CARE, Emory, IRIS |
Time / Room | Session Title | Conveners |
8:30-10:00am | Self-supply: Towards Affordable Water for All -Benefits, Concerns, and Case Studies | Mercer University, MWA, IRC |
8:30-10:00am | Making Agriculture Water-smart: Systems Change Approaches for Water and Food Security | CARE |
8:30-10:00am | Training on One of the Five Commitments for Gender and WASH in Emergencies | CARE |
10:30am-12:00pm | Self-supply: The Potential Role of SMART Centers as a Hub for Building Value Chains to Reach Those Being Left Behind with WaSH | WaterAid |
POSTERS
Title | Presenter |
From Aspirations to Reality: Crunching the Numbers on Universal WASH Services (Tuesday 8 October) | Angela Huston, IRC |
Using mWater for Faster Response to Fix Water Points Post Cyclone Idai in Malawi (Tuesday 8 October) | Kelly Alexander, CARE |
“Women Can Only Plant Onions” – Expanding the Role, Skills and Voice of Women Farmers (Wednesday 9 October) | Kelly Alexander, CARE |
Understanding Shared Latrine Use and Dynamics In Rural Cambodia (Thursday 10 October) | Chreay Pom, Rafael Catalla, Sina Nong |
The Challenges of Running Shared Toilets in a City with Lacking Systematic Faecal Sludge Management (Thursday 10 October) | Kamal Farah, CARE |
Exemplary Leadership Promotes Community Sanitation, Improves Water Safety Planning (Thursday 10 October) | Lydia Mirembe-Ssenyonjo, IRC Uganda |