civil society

On 6 and 22 November, End Water Poverty and Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, with partners (Coalition Eau, Watershed Empowering Citizens, with the support of Sanitation and Water for All) will host a webinar series, entitled ‘how can we improve accountability mechanisms for SDG 6 at the national level?’. This webinar will be delivered in three languages (English, French and Spanish). The times of the webinars are as follows:

On 13–16 of August, the Freshwater Action Network for South-East Asia (FANSA) organised a workshop in Sri Lanka to explore how civil society in the region could continue acting together to push for progress and accountability towards the achievement of Goal 6 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). More than 40 participants were invited from eight countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka).

Accra, January 2017 - The Coalition of NGOs in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS) wishes to commend the Ghanaian government for creating a Ministry dedicated to sanitation and water resources.

Wow, we've just finished a fantastic End Water Poverty (EWP)/ Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) civil society regional meeting in Latin America! We've been working together with a diverse range organisations over the past 2 days - discussing opportunities and challenges for the region, how we can strengthen our connections and working together, and how to deepen the engagement with EWP and SWA in the future. Such energy and passion in the room was truly inspiring!

“Water resource management is climate change adaption“ says Joe Bongay (Executive Director - Young Volunteers for the Environment - The Gambia) at the on-going UNFCCC Conference Of the Parties (COP) 22 Climate Conference, taking place in Marrakech, Morocco.

Blog post originally posted on 13 November 2016 on EcoView Africa online. 

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Sustainable Development Goals: National level context assessment now online

End Water Poverty is delighted to announce that we have renewed our partnership with WaterAid, confirming our joint action to achieve our collective vision of everyone, everywhere! 

This week, governments at Africa Water Week are expected to agree a roadmap to ensure the continent achieves Global Goal 6 on water and sanitation by 2030.  Apollos Nwafor, WaterAid’s Regional Advocacy Manager for West Africa, looks at why it is important that these ambitious targets are first met in Africa, and how the roadmap must be shaped to make this a reality.

Blog post originally written by Tabitha Gerrets, of Akvo, part of the Watershed consortium and was posted on the Watershed website online.