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SWA welcomes Costa Rica

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SWA warmly welcomes a new partner to the countries constituency: Costa Rica. Costa Rica has been developing important expertise in water resources management, which will be beneficial to the partnership. They also hope to jointly work with other partners on achieving the upcoming water, sanitation and hygiene Sustainable Development Goals.…

New Digest Series to Provide Policy Advice For WaSH Decision Makers

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The Water Institute at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA) has launched a WaSH Policy Research Digest series to support senior decision makers in the development of effective policy in countries faced with water, sanitation and hygiene challenges. The Digests are intended to be an easy-to-access knowledge and…

SWA at the 3rd Financing for Development Conference in Addis

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SWA is launching in Addis a sneak-preview of the 2015 Progress Update, focusing on financing commitments: Mid-term review of progress against 2014 High Level Meeting commitments: Snapshot prepared for the Financing for Development Conference The third High Level Meeting of the Sanitation and Water for All partnership was held in April 2014 in…

SWA set to play major role in SDGs

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SWA announced today its commitment to play a pivotal role to contribute to and help shape the means of implementation, as well as follow-up and review of the water, sanitation and hygiene related targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SWA will reach out to other partnerships to help build…

Catarina de Albuquerque represents SWA at El Pais, AECID events

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Catarina was invited by Spanish lead newspaper El Pais (2 million daily readers) to participate in a high-level breakfast discussion on “Water and Sustainable Development”. Other participants included Alejandro Zarzuela, Technical Director at ACCIONA AGUA and Jose Miguel Mulet, Professor of Biotechnology at the University of Valencia. The dynamic debate…

SWA partners have new SWA CSO Advisor

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Jen Williams has been appointed by End Water Poverty as SWA’s new CSO Adviser.  Jen has lived in Uganda for the past 16 months, while working as an Advocacy Advisor with WaterAid Uganda and the Uganda Water and Sanitation NGO Network. Her work has included monitoring of the commitments made at the…