Seeds for sustainable solutions at Asia Pacific Climate Week
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Water for Women, Australian Water Partnership, the University of Technology, Sydney's Institute for Sustainable Futures and WaterAid will be presenting five key transformative tools for sustainable solutions at next weeks Asia-Pacific Climate Week in Malaysia.
Locally-led water-climate nexus solutions require strong gender equality, disability, and social inclusion (GEDSI) approaches in programs and organisations. A more climate-resilient future calls for transformation of norms to leave no one behind and ensuring that everyone is part of the solution. This leads to more sustainable outcomes in water resource management (WRM), water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and climate nexus programs aiming to protect land, ocean food and water.
This is the message that Australia – water partners for development, including Water for Women, Australian Water Partnership, the University of Technology, Sydney's Institute for Sustainable Futures (UTS-ISF) and WaterAid will be taking to next weeks Asia-Pacific Climate Week.
Seeds for sustainable solutions:
Embedding transformation in water and WASH for SDG success
16 November
14:00 – 14:30 GMT+8 (17:00 – 17:30 AEDT)
Action Hub
Persada Johor International Convention Centre in city of Johor Bahru
Hybrid online (Microsoft Teams link) / in person
Track 3: Land, ocean, food and water
Australia – water partners for development have developed and deepened GEDSI practice over the past five years and beyond, bringing a wealth of knowledge and practical tools that can progress towards transformative change for climate-nexus programming. Addressing GEDSI in ways that are meaningful and contextually appropriate, requires understanding and investing in processes, resources, capacities, knowledge and structures that support transformation at all levels.
Valuing, raising and listening to the voices, knowledge and capacities of women, indigenous people and marginalised groups is essential. But no one can do it alone –locally-led solutions need support.
For those attending in person, we invite you to join our dynamic Action Hub session. The session can also be joined remotely via Microsoft Teams. These meeting details will be shared on this page and via our social media channels when they become available.
What tools will we be showcasing?
Papaya
The GEDSI Towards Transformation in WASH Self-Assessment Tool (SAT), co-developed by Water for Women and the Sanitation Learning Hub (SLH), is a practical tool that provides an opportunity for water and WASH teams to reflect on their current strengths, track progress and identify strategies to drive GEDSI transformative change for more inclusive water and WASH systems and processes to support equity and resilience at household, community and institutional levels.
Wild Cambodian Grapes
WaterAid has collaborated with national and local Organisations of Persons with disabilities to understand and address inclusive approaches at all levels of the system. This has resulted in a series of learning briefs and tools: Translating disability inclusive WASH policies into practice: lessons from Cambodia.
WaterAid in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine led research on translating disability from policy to services in WASH, and there is forthcoming work to examine GEDSI in Water Safety Planning and disability in climate and WRM
Australian Finger Lime
The stories of Community Voices in Australia bring to the fore a people and community dimension that is rarely shared but is an incredibly important component of developing and implementing major changes to water policy. There have been successes and failures in Australia’s journey that may be of value to those considering undertaking water reform. These lessons are captured in Community Voices: An Australian perspective on Community and Stakeholder Engagement.
Starfruit
The WASH Gender Equality Measure (WASH-GEM) was developed by UTS-ISF with iDE in Cambodia and SNV in Nepal, within the Water for Women Fund.
The WASH-GEM supports Water and WASH practitioners to explore the connections between WASH and gender equality, and monitor changes over time.
Watermelon
Designed to be used in conjunction with the WASH-GEM, the qualKit was developed by UTS-ISF within the Water for Women Fund.
It is a curated set of web-based qualitative monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) tools designed for GEDSI development programs, including a range of the latest digital tools which can be used for qualitative data collection and analysis.
During the session we'll also be launching a toolkit of the above resources and more that can help water, WASH and climate practitioners and policymakers embed transformation in water and WASH for SDG6 success!
About the event
Asia-Pacific Climate Week 2023 (APCW2023) will take place from 13 to 17 November 2023, hosted by the Johor state government in collaboration with the Government of Malaysia. The last of four regional climate weeks leading up to COP28 in Dubai in December where the first global stocktake of progress towards targets will conclude.
The Regional Climate Weeks provide a platform for policymakers, practitioners, businesses and civil society to exchange on climate solutions, barriers to overcome and opportunities realized in different regions.
Each of the climate weeks are designed around four tracks and principles that guide event development. All events must contribute substantively to the Global Stocktake process by identifying region-relevant actions and timelines necessary to accelerate the progress needed to keep the 1.5 C trajectory reachable. In 2023, the four tracks are:
Track 1: Energy Systems and Industry
Track 2: Cities, Urban and Rural Settlements, Infrastructure and Transport
Track 3: Land, Ocean, Food and Water
Track 4: Societies, Health, Livelihoods and Economies
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