Sanitation call to action at #WWWeek2023

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Building on the momentum of the Sanitation Coalition's Call to Action: Ensuring access to climate-resilient sanitation services for 3.6 billion people by 2030, launched at COP27 in Egypt, we invite attendees at SIWI's World Water Week 2023 to join our Sanitation Call to Action at the Australia - water partners for development booth.


Sanitation Call to Action
Wednesday 23 August
12:00pm (12:15 start)
Level 4, Booth 4:15


Join us to bring to attention the critical connection of sanitation and climate resilience and the urgent need for increased and sustained investments by governments, private sector and civil society. The health, wellbeing and resilience of communities depend on accessible sanitation for all, this is becoming a more urgent priority with increasing climate change-related hazards and disasters across the globe. Improved sanitation is also a critical contributor to the safe management and resilience of waterways. 

Speakers: Bilal Akbar (DFAT), Jamie Myers (Sanitation Learning Hub), Sam Drabble (Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor – WSUP), Ann Thomas (UNICEF) and Elise Mann (iDE Global)

 

How can you take action?

  1. Include climate resilience in sanitation policies, plans, budgets and services and increase political commitments, particularly to the poorest and most climate-affected communities.
  2. Incorporate climate-resilient sanitation into National Adaptation Plans and Nationally Determined Contributions and strengthen the climate rationale for investment.
  3. Strengthen government systems and capacities to provide climate-resilient sanitation services
  4. Invest in and improve the evidence base for effective adaptation and emissions reduction in climate-resilient sanitation
  5. Develop and implement affordable, innovative, climate-resilient sanitation technologies and service models


Read the full Call to Action

#StickwithSanitation

If you are interested in future updates from the Sanitation Coalition on tools, resources and action you can take on climate-resilient sanitation, register your interest here.

The Call to Action was jointly developed by UNICEF, the Global Green Growth Institute, the University of Technology Sydney, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, UN-Habitat, the World Health Organization, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, Resilient Cities Network, WaterAid and SNV

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