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In this September 2024 edition of our newsletter, we bring you a rich and diverse array of news, key updates, and events from GWC CAST, National Coordination Platforms (NCPs), GWC members and partners such as SaniHub, GTFCC, UNICEF, OXFAM, and the Triple Nexus Initiative.
On 14 August 2024, the World…
With support from UNICEF and the GWC Hygiene Promotion Working Group, the GWC CAST conducted an extensive desk review of Mpox resources in August 2024, and has launched the online knowledge hub on Mpox in humanitarian WASH response. This contains all the resources and guidance documents on Mpox that were shared by our partners.
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In this August 2024 edition of our newsletter, we bring you a rich and diverse array of news, key updates, and events from GWC CAST, National Coordination Platforms (NCPs), GWC members and partners such as UNICEF, IOM, Action Contre la Faim, the Triple Nexus Initiative, WASH Web, RWSN, and the Geneva Water Hub.
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In OCHA's Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) Mid-year 2024 update, the GWC reported that more than 100 million targeted people (42%) globally have not received water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) assistance due to under-funding and attacks on WASH infrastructure. Such under-resourcing and attacks made a tremendous effect to health and…
As we enter the second half of 2024, we bring you a rich and diverse array of news, key updates, and events from GWC CAST, National Coordination Platforms (NCPs), GWC members, and partners such as UNICEF, OCHA, USAID, Water by Women, Rural Water Supply Network, and the UNC Water and Health Conference.
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Today, millions of women and girls* around the world are stigmatised, excluded and discriminated against simply because they menstruate. It’s not acceptable that because of a natural bodily function women and girls continue to be prevented from getting an education, earning an income and fully and equally participating in everyday life. While Menstrual Hygiene Day…
The Engineering Institute of the UNAM organized the first two YWP congresses, the first in Mexico City in 2008 and the second in the City of Querétaro in 2010. The third edition of this event was organized in 2013 by the Instituto Potosino de Scientific and Technological Research (IPICYT) in the City of San Luis Potosí, the fourth edition by the University of…
The 2022 Sector Ministers’ Meeting (SMM), hosted by the Government of Indonesia, is taking place on 18-19 May 2022, in Jakarta. Building on previous Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) High-level Meetings (HLMs), the 2022 SMM is a critical opportunity to link with other sectors, with a view towards increasing the prioritization of water, sanitation, and hygiene…
The 26th Global Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Cluster’s (GWC) Annual Meeting was hybrid event taking place both online and in Budapest from the 16th – 17th May 2022. The event brought together 119 participants from GWC members and National Coordination Platforms (NCPs) from around the globe.