Updates
Welcome to the "updates" section where you can find the latest updates of the partnership.
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The unfinished business of WASH discussed by SWA partners at the Asia and the Pacific Parliamentarian and CSO Forum
in Event Updates
Sanitation and Water for All co-convened a session organized by WaterAid with UNICEF at the ‘Asia and the Pacific Parliamentarian and CSO Forum on MDG Acceleration and the Post 2015 Development Agenda’ which took place in March 2013 in Bali, Indonesia. The discussion was an opportunity for partners to share their…
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SWA at the IRC Symposium on monitoring sustainable WASH service delivery, preparing for AfricaSan 4 and the 2014 HLM
in Event Updates
SWA was present at the IRC Symposium on monitoring sustainable WASH service delivery in Addis Ababa from 9 to 11 April 2013. SWA secretariat and partners held a session to share the main achievements of SWA since the 2012 High Level Meeting and initial guidelines around how to prepare for…
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SWA to help answer DSG Call for Action on Sanitation
in Sector News
Ambassador Jan Eliasson, UN Deputy Secretary-General, launched a Call to Action on Sanitation on the eve of World Water Day in the presence of leaders of agencies within the UN system, the World Bank, governments, private sector and civil society. Darren Saywell, SWA Vice-Chair, attended the launch and recommended the DSG build on…
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UN Deputy Secretary-General announces the 2014 High Level Meeting
in SWA Updates
The UN Deputy Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson, announced the 2014 SWA High Level Meeting (HLM) on 19 April 2013 at an event co hosted by the World Bank and the United Nations. The announcement came just one month after the DSG launched his own Call to Action on Sanitation, where he called for an…
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JMP WHO/UNICEF: MDG target on sanitation is projected to be missed by half a billion people
in Sector News
At the current rate of progress, the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of halving the proportion of the 1990 population without sanitation will miss by eight per cent, or half a billion people. This is the warning from the WHO and UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) update 2013, Progress on Sanitation and…