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The Rotary Club of Washington DC and the Rotary Club Paris Academies have announced the International Summit on Water in Developing Countries, scheduled for April 15, 2011, in Washington DC. The conference is a joint project of the Rotary Club of Washington, DC and the Rotary Club Paris Academies in conjunction with more than 120 Rotary Clubs in Rotary District 7620 (United States) and 1660 (France). More information: www.watersummit.org
SUMMIT TOPICS
>Assessing progress toward the Millennium Development Goals
>Current state of water development in developing countries
>Key issues and lessons learned -- where we go from here
>Imperatives for future programming and sustainability
>Role of community-designed, community-implemented solutions
>New international partnerships -- leveraging 1.2 million highly motivated policymakers, business leaders and resource champions, and other untapped resources
Please join if you can.
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Sunday, March 6, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
World Water Summit 2011 / Rotary / New Orleans
Information below from our good friends at Rotary International's Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action Group. I spoke at this event last year in Montreal and expect to do so again this year.
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World Water Summit IV is being held on Friday, May 20, 2011 in New Orleans, USA, immediately before the international Rotary Convention.
We've made a few changes this year: there will be one set of workshops in the morning and one in the afternoon, each two hours long. This is in response to feedback from last year's attendees, and is intended to provide a more hands-on, useful, learning experience.
Click here to see the draft program. This year's plenary speakers, and workshop topics and leaders, are outstanding!
We hope you will join us again. Click here for more information about the event, and registration.
If you have any other questions, please contact the Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action Group at info (at) wasrag (d0t) org.
The World Water Summit IV Team
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World Water Summit IV is being held on Friday, May 20, 2011 in New Orleans, USA, immediately before the international Rotary Convention.
We've made a few changes this year: there will be one set of workshops in the morning and one in the afternoon, each two hours long. This is in response to feedback from last year's attendees, and is intended to provide a more hands-on, useful, learning experience.
Click here to see the draft program. This year's plenary speakers, and workshop topics and leaders, are outstanding!
We hope you will join us again. Click here for more information about the event, and registration.
If you have any other questions, please contact the Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action Group at info (at) wasrag (d0t) org.
The World Water Summit IV Team
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Rotary / Water / Summit / Montreal / June 19, 2010
For those of you who can swing by Montreal on June 19, 2010, the Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action Group (WASRAG)'s World Water Summit is shaping up very nicely, keynoted by WSSCC's Jon Lane, one of the global water sector's rockstars. See below - hope you can all make it, Rotarians and non-Rotarians alike.
More details from an update I received this morning:
Wasrag and WRG are pleased to announce that Jon Lane, Executive Director of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), will be one of the keynote speakers and also lead a workshop at the World Water Summit in Montreal, June 19, 2010.
The workshop: Rotary's Role in Bringing Stakeholders Together - is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the perspective of large governmental and non-governmental organizations: how are we progressing, what large-scale initiatives are being undertaken, what works and doesn't work, and where do smaller scale initiatives fit in?
Jon's experience in the field serves him well as leader of the WSSCC (or Collaborative Council), a group that is "putting people at the centre".
The focus of the Collaborative Council is to facilitate:
• Networking and collaboration between sector professionals
• Applied research and knowledge management
• Advocacy and communications, notably through the concept of WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene for all).
The Collaborative Council is an independent entity hosted within the UN system and mandated by a UN General Assembly resolution in 1990 - it has one foot inside the UN and one foot out. It has 3,000 members in 90 countries. Most are senior professionals concerned with water and sanitation in developing countries.
Click on "To Register" to learn more.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
More details from an update I received this morning:
Wasrag and WRG are pleased to announce that Jon Lane, Executive Director of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), will be one of the keynote speakers and also lead a workshop at the World Water Summit in Montreal, June 19, 2010.
The workshop: Rotary's Role in Bringing Stakeholders Together - is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the perspective of large governmental and non-governmental organizations: how are we progressing, what large-scale initiatives are being undertaken, what works and doesn't work, and where do smaller scale initiatives fit in?
Jon's experience in the field serves him well as leader of the WSSCC (or Collaborative Council), a group that is "putting people at the centre".
The focus of the Collaborative Council is to facilitate:
• Networking and collaboration between sector professionals
• Applied research and knowledge management
• Advocacy and communications, notably through the concept of WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene for all).
The Collaborative Council is an independent entity hosted within the UN system and mandated by a UN General Assembly resolution in 1990 - it has one foot inside the UN and one foot out. It has 3,000 members in 90 countries. Most are senior professionals concerned with water and sanitation in developing countries.
Click on "To Register" to learn more.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Rotary International and water/sanitation
For Rotarians in the house, I encourage you to consider attending WASRAG's World Water Summit in Birmingham UK on June 19th.
WASRAG has to be the worst acronym ever, but they put on a good show. An impressive list of panelists will discuss the issues of community mobilization and health and hygiene promotion.
The agenda:
Birmingham Water Summit Agenda
Registration is open until April 20th. If you plan to join them, please go immediately to the website www.wasrag.org and click on "Register Now."
WASRAG has to be the worst acronym ever, but they put on a good show. An impressive list of panelists will discuss the issues of community mobilization and health and hygiene promotion.
The agenda:
Birmingham Water Summit Agenda
Registration is open until April 20th. If you plan to join them, please go immediately to the website www.wasrag.org and click on "Register Now."
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