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IRC symposium 2008: Governance and partnerships for sanitation of urban poor
Urban sanitation faces many challenges such as extreme poverty, high
unemployment, high population (and housing) densities, water scarcity and
lack of infrastructure. These are compounded by opaque and ineffective urban
planning mechanisms, lack of legal land tenure, inadequate finance,
technological challenges, poor governance, and so on. IRC is planning to
address these issues during a three-day symposium from 19-21 November 2008
linking its 40th anniversary with the International Year of
Sanitation. The title is Governance and Partnerships for Sanitation and
Hygiene in Informal Settlements and Peri-Urban Areas.
The IRC Symposium 2008 will explore the challenges around urban sanitation
for the poor and will present good practice examples, with an emphasis on
partnerships and governance.
Focus and objectives:
The focus of the symposium will be on innovative governance and partnership solutions to address the challenges of sanitation delivery in informal settlements.The objectives of the IRC symposium 2008 are two-fold:
* It will provide a platform to share good practices in the field of improved urban sanitation for the poor through partnerships and/or improved governance. The symposium will focus on approaches that have been tried at scale or show strong potential for scaling up. The symposium will seek to identify factors that contribute to scaling up.
* The symposium will formally close the International Year of Sanitation 2008 for the Dutch water and sanitation sector and will synthesise experiences from the year, looking ahead towards further action to bring about change.
| Contact information |
Joep Verhagen, IRC
(email: verhagen@irc.nl) |
|---|---|
| Event type | Conference |
| File link |
http://www.irc.nl/page/38373 |
| Source | IRC |
| Subject(s) | DRINKING WATER , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES |
| Relation | http://www.semide.net/topics/sanitation |
| Geographical coverage | Netherlands |
| Address | Delft, Netherlands |
| Organizer | IRC |
| Target audience | International |
| Duration | a three-day symposium |
| Period | [19/11/2008 - 21/11/2008] |
| Status | Confirmed |
| Working language(s) | ENGLISH |
