Back-to-back seminars focusing on "Sanitation Partnerships" at Stockholm World Water Week 2006

The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), the Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP) and Building Partnerships for Development (BPD) are co-ordinating to provide a full day seminar on Partnerships for Sanitation and Hygiene on the 22nd of August at Stockholm World Water Week.

WSP and WSSCC focusing on "Partnerships in Action"
The morning session (9h00-12h00) convened by WSSCC and WSP will focus on different types of multi stakeholder partnerships on the ground.

In order to work more effectively towards sustainable sanitation and hygiene solutions, the sector needs to extend alliances and gain momentum through partnerships with a variety of stakeholders and actors. The seminar, chaired by Mr. Alan Court , of UNICEF, will feature presentations on successful partnerships such as the Diorano WASH Coalition in Madagascar, The WASH movement in Ethiopia, the Public Private Partnership for Handwashing in Peru and WASH partnerships with youth to enhance the School Sanitation agenda in Bulgaria. The audience will be invited to share their own experiences on partnerships and the discussion will focus on success factors for partnerships and factors for replication.

The WSSCC/WSP seminar will take place in room 307 on Tuesday 22nd August from 09.00 to 12.00. Click here for an agenda or contact Cecilia Martinsen, Programme Officer at WSSCC for more details.

BPD and IWA talk about the realities of on-site sanitation partnership
In the afternoon seminar, Building Partnerships for Development (BPD) will present and discuss its work on sanitation partnerships. Chaired by Darren Saywell of the International Water Association (IWA) and illustrated by on-the-ground experiences from South Africa and Madagascar, BPD will look at on-site sanitation through the lens of partnership. A mixed group of participants will be encouraged to engage fully as BPD discusses some of the specific challenges that sanitation poses to partnership approaches.

Discussions will focus on how partnerships can play one of three roles: improving the existing 'sanitation transactions' that take place, harnessing these towards public health goals, and overcoming the institutional fragmentation that bedevils sanitation delivery.

The seminar will take place in room 307 on Tuesday 22nd August from 13.30 to 17.00. Click here for the agenda or contact David Schaub-Jones at BPD for more details.

Important note: Those wishing to attend either half-day seminar will have to apply to SIWI regarding paying attendance at Stockholm Water Week. Regrettably neither BPD nor WSSCC can assist financially or procedurally with this process.