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International WaTERS Network Announcements March 2018

The following is a list of announcements for the International WaTERS Network. This includes news, jobs, grants, conferences, educational opportunities and recent publications.

As always, please send any content that you would like included in the next announcement to [email protected]

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Membership AnnouncementAs the International WaTERS Network moves into our next phase we are excited to revisit ways to strengthen one of our best resources - networking our members. We know that many of you have already benefited by using the IW Network to connectto like minded scholars and practitioners around the world. We want to build on those successes.

As part of this project, please send a short statement how your work aligns with our goals and a current CV to [email protected]. We hope to share this information more broadly to help our members better connect and work onprojects, grants, and scholarship. You can always find information on the Network on our website.

Successful webinar - Groundwater and Equity: Exploring barriers to access in the Global South Thank you so much to the outstanding panel from our first webinar. Prof. Frances Cleaver and Luke Whaley (University of Sheffield) as well as Prof. Michelle Kooy (IHE Delft Institute for Water Education), and Prof. Komakech (Nelson Mandela Instituteof Science and Technology in Arusha, Tanzania).

If you are interested in watching a recording of our webinar, it is available on our youtube channel or at this link.

Allied Network of interest: Household Water Insecurity (HWISE) Research Coordination Network (RCN)

The Household Water Insecurity (HWISE) Research Coordination Network (RCN) operates at the strategic intersection of social science discovery, policy, and practice. Their mission is to build a community of practice and collaboration that fosterskey analytics and theoretical advances coupled with the development of research protocols and standardized assessments to document, benchmark, and understand the causes and outcomes of water insecurity at the household scale. The scope ofthe HWISE Network activities is global and cross cultural, and recognizes the important advances in water sustainability and policy development that originate in diverse environmental contexts and regions. Consequently, the HWISE Network will drawfrom scholars, policy makers, and practitioners globally. Their work advances the goal of sustainable and socially equitable water policy and interventions through the robust evaluation of key water security problems. They pay explicit attention to theelucidation of causes and outcomes of household water insecurity and translation research outcomes into meaningful and useful products for practitioners, communities, and decision-makers.

The HWISE Network developed from an existing collaboration among Amber Wutich (Arizona State University), Wendy Jepson (Texas A&M), Sera Young (Northwestern University). Recently they have broadened their collaborative publication andresearch relationships to include Justin Stoler (Miami) on the leadership team. Current HWISE collaborators, which have grown organically around ad-hoc workshops (funded by our respective institutions and institutes) and sponsored projects todevelop a household water insecurity scale, now include over 40 scholars from 24 U.S. and international institutions across the career spectrum (post-doctoral researchers and early career scholars to middle and advanced researchers) and socialscience disciplines. In short, their effort to date is only the beginning of a productive research collaborative network to advance conceptual and methodological frontiers in water security and environmental social science, more broadly.

The Core team began their collaboration by joining forces and coordinating individual efforts to develop a validated scale for assessing household water insecurity scale. Jepson, Young, and Wutich began meeting biweekly via Skype to discuss andadvance concepts and methods that go beyond existing metrics, definitions, and methods related to the water insecurity at the individual and household scale. Their rationale was that household food insecurity (HFI) has emerged as a powerfulpredictor of a range of poor nutrition, health, and economic outcomes; given the intrinsic value and absolute necessity of clean water for human health, household water insecurity (HWI) may indeed be equally or more powerfully predictive of poorhealth and wellbeing. Therefore, it was (and is) their goal to understand the determinants of HWI, compare levels across settings, and understand how HWI impacts agricultural, nutrition, and health.

This effort has mobilized a dynamic community of scholars who believe that this will lead to a breakthrough for social science and policy, similar in scope to the household food insecurity scales and research years before. In March 2018, in conjunctionwith the Society for Economic Anthropology meeting at Arizona State University, they met for a third time—again with new researchers—to discuss reciprocity and water sharing as a core dimension of the relational approach to household waterinsecurity. Finally, they anticipate several papers and chapters from this meeting and completion of the first major paper on the validated HWISE scale in Summer 2018. In short, their recent success confirms the efficacy and uptake of HWISE as aproof of concept and the leadership team’s collaborative capacity and ability to manage and achieve rapid results in an interdisciplinary and global network.

Several IW Network members are involved in HWISE and look forward to working together and ongoing collaboration.

For more information please visit the HWISE website, follow them on twitter and instagram, or contact Wendy Jepson.

Recent HWISE publications of interest

Jepson, Wendy E., Amber Wutich, Shalean M. Colllins, Godfred O. Boateng, and Sera L. Young. (2017) "Progress in household water insecurity metrics: a cross‐disciplinary approach." Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water 4, no. 3.

Wutich, A., Budds, J., Eichelberger, L., Geere, J., Harris, L.M., Horney, J.A., Jepson, W., Norman, E., O'Reilly, K., Pearson, A.L. and Shah, S.H., (2017). Advancing methods for research on household water insecurity: Studying entitlements andcapabilities, socio-cultural dynamics, and political processes, institutions and governance. Water Security (2017).

IW Member Dr. Heather O’Leary interviewed for World Water Day by University of California Press

UC Press: Research projects leveraging data from citizen-scientists have become increasingly common in recent decades, but oftentimes, underprivileged communities are under-represented in these projects. What are some of the benefits of betterdemocratizing citizen science?

Heather O’Leary: Researchers take a step in the right direction when they try to broaden the representation of their samples to include traditionally underrepresented populations. Not only does this help close the critical gaps in samplingrepresentation, but it also recognizes these populations as stakeholders who participate in systems—from being affected by dangers, to coping through creative solutions.

However, I join a critical community of scholars who argue that many inclusion tactics treat people in underprivileged communities as objects, rather than subjects. Essentially, this means that researchers observe and collect data on populations withoutforming essential partnerships that recognize the agency and talents of everyday people. By approaching members of underrepresented populations as legitimate, credible experts who collect untapped data and form complex theories governing theireveryday experiences, researchers glean a whole lot more than diverse participation in data collection.

Democratizing citizen-science means including everyday people as partners in every step along the way: framing research projects, troubleshooting methods, interpreting resulting data, and determining next steps towards broader impact. Bydemocratizing citizen-science, researchers issue a powerful invitation to participate in creating more nuanced hypotheses, higher-quality data collection, and holistic systemic solutions. My article demonstrates one of many instances where training andpartnering with people in the local community generated even better research frameworks and how these partnerships mobilized a community of citizen-scientists to improve WaSH according to their specific, local needs.

Read the whole interview here.

IHE Delft’s response to high level panel on water report ‘Making every drop count’

"We see the water crisis as a wicked problem, and is characterized by major gaps in access to water supply and sanitation, increased pollution and degrading ecosystems, exacerbated by climate change. Water is a multifaceted good whose socio-economic nature changes over time, space and quantity with external conditions and drivers, ranging from public good, common-pool resource and even to private good, all of which imply varying value composition and management approach. IHEDelft is currently researching how to value and manage water as a precious resource, which is both context dependent and should be adaptive to local conditions."

Read more here.

A number of IW members at the IHE Delft contributed to this statement.

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Dropbox, and your CVAs many of you know, we host a dropbox with many resources for researchers interested in the International WaTERS themes. The dropbox contains pdf's of member articles, collected job and funding announcements, and member's CV's. If you havenot already, please send an updated CV (pdf) to [email protected] and we will add it to the dropbox. If you do not have dropbox access and would like to be included please let us know.

JobsJosh's Water JobsOne of the primere stops for any water job hunt is Josh's Water Jobs. The jobs found on the website are related to water and internationally focused. There are two broad categories that are highlighted, namely Water (policy, governance, law,economics, management, finance, advocacy, science, communications, etc.) and WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene).

You can sign up for weekly updates here or explore the database here.

Two Post-Doctoral Research Associate Positions Human Dimensions Lab, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue UniversityWest Lafayette, Indiana

Overview: We are seeking two post-doctoral research associates to join two collaborative, interdisciplinary, international projects. Both projects are part of a large initiative, Arequipa Nexus Institutefor Food, Energy, Water, and the Environment (theNexus Institute) and both positions will involve coordination and collaboration with selected faculty and graduate students at the National University of Saint Augustine (UNSA), our partner institution in Arequipa, Peru (see the end of this positionannouncement for more information about the Nexus Institute). Project 1: Equitable Co-existence of Agriculture, Mining, and Regional Development in Arequipa: Realities, Barriers, and Opportunities This post-doctoral research associate will workclosely with Dr. Zhao Ma from the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Dr. Jonathan Bauchet from Department of Consumer Science, and Dr. Laura Zanotti from the Department of Anthropology. We will investigate how communities acrossthe rural-to-urban gradient in the Arequipa Region perceive water availability and quality in the context of climate change to identify potential strategies for facilitating the co-existence of agriculture, mining, and regional development in an equitable way.Project 2: A Framework for Sustainable Water Management in the Arequipa Region This post-doctoral research associate will work with Dr. Zhao Ma from the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources in close collaboration with Dr. Linda Prokopyfrom the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources and Dr. Laura Bowling from the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering. We will evaluate the formal and informal social institutions associated with water resource governance inArequipa, Peru. This assessment will be used by Drs. Prokopy and Bowling to inform a larger process of developing stakeholder-driven land use and water management tools, data, and a planning framework aiming at promoting socially, economicallyand ecologically sustainable agricultural and resource development in the region.

For more information, contact Dr. Zhao Ma ([email protected]; 765-494-1790) or visit https://www.purdue.edu/fnr/sites/ma/. Review of applications will start on March 19, 2018.

More information here.

FundingFuture IW Network Funding

As you know, IW is always on the lookout for additional funding opportunities to help our network continue and grow. We are keeping an ongoing list of potential funding opportunities. Please review the list and let us know if you know of any otheropportunities.

International Fellowship for early to mid-career urban scholars from the Global South

Applications are invited for an International Fellowship for early to mid-career urban scholars from the Global South, on any theme pertinent to a better understanding of urban realities in the Global South. The Fellowship covers the costs of asabbatical period at a university of the candidate’s choice in the Global North or South for the purpose of writing up the candidate’s existing research findings in the form of publishable articles or a book under the guidance of a chosen mentor in theirfield of study. Funding is available for a period ranging between 3-9 months.

Eligibility Applicants must be early career urban scholars with a PhD obtained within the preceding 5 years who currently work in a university or other research institution within the Global South. Candidates must also be nationals of a country in theGlobal South. Preference may be given to candidates from least or low-income countries but middle-income developing countries are not excluded if the need for support is justified.

Deadline April 27th, 2018. More information here.

Accelerating Climate Action: Social Equity and Empowerment of Women and GirlsThis call is open to established research-oriented organizations in eligible low-, middle- or upper-middle income countries in sub-Saharan and North Africa, the Middle East, South and South East Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Theproposed research must take place in one or more countries included in the list of eligible countries (the list can be found in the FAQ). Cross-regional collaboration and comparative studies that generate local, regional, and international good practiceswill be encouraged.

The Accelerating Climate Action call will focus on the following three themes, collectively addressing current knowledge gaps in socially-transformative climate research:

Climate and disaster resilience: Research projects focusing on socially-equitable development planning that enhances the ability of people — regardless of gender, ethnicity, socio-economic status, age, or physical ability — to mitigate andadapt to climate-related hazards;Energy security: Research projects that explore socially equitable access to innovative, clean, and renewable energy services and to energy-based technologies; andMigration: Research projects that produce knowledge to contribute to using migration as a proactive adaptation strategy that contributes to equitable access to economic, health, educational, and employment services.

Proposed research projects should be based on an analysis of the interrelated factors affecting communities and their vulnerability to climate change impacts. Projects should aim to achieve long-term socially-transformative outcomes; similarly, theyshould also be participatory in structure to effectively address the various needs and priorities of underrepresented people. Research outcomes should inspire innovation in climate policies, institutions, technologies, and strategies that can be applied topromote the resilience of communities.

Priority will be given to research projects that:

engage decision-makers from the beginning and involve a wide range of stakeholders throughout the design and implementation of the project (including public authorities, communities, civil society, and the private sector), with particularattention paid to stakeholders who are usually marginalized in such processes;

offer practical and applicable solutions at well-defined, appropriate scales;identify options to bring tested solutions to scale through private and public financing and appropriate policies that lead to social equity.

Deadline: April 23rd, 2018More information here.

AfriAlliance launches a competitive call for Action Groups

The H2020 project entitled Africa-EU Innovation Alliance for Water (AfriAlliance) presents the first announcement for the launch of the competitive call for the second set of 5 AfriAlliance Action Groups. The official launch of the 5 successful AfriAllianceAction Groups will be on the 31st of July 2018. The application will be open to all organisations, both public and private, such as NGOs, companies, research institutions, associations, governments and networks. Emphasis is placed on local solutionsto local problems extrapolated to other areas and countries across Africa and the EU.

The Action Groups (also referred to as working groups, communities of practice etc.) will seek to reduce fragmentation in water and climate actions within Africa and between Africa and the European Union by bringing together relevant knowledge,expertise and solutions. An Action Group (made up of relevant stakeholders) will allow you to demonstrate your innovative idea, undertake pilot activities, share knowledge between stakeholders and networks at all scales, so as to effectively identifyand address water and climate vulnerabilities.

The activities of the Action Group will focus on one sub-theme within the following main themes/settings:

Human development and capacity development needs in water and climate actionsInstitutional capacity development needs in water and climate actionsRural and Agriculture settingsUrban and industrial settingsCoastal areasTransversal issues

The application process is now open and will close on the 11th of May 2018.

More information here. Humanitarian Grand Challenge

The United States Agency for International Development Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA), the UK Department for International Development (DFID), and Grand Challenges Canada have launched Creating Hope in Conflict: AHumanitarian Grand Challenge. This challenge seeks to fund and accelerate solutions that enable life-saving or life-improving assistance to reach the most vulnerable and hardest-to-reach people in conflict-generated humanitarian crises. Specifically,we seek innovations engage the private sector and involve input from the affected communities in order to provide, supply or locally generate safe water and sanitation, energy, lifesaving information, or health supplies and services to help conflict-affected people.

Deadline: Thursday, April 12, 2018, at 11:30 a.m. North America Eastern Time Zone (15:30 GMT).


South Africa/Austria Science and Technology Joint Call for Research Proposals 2019

The programme for Scientific & Technological Cooperation is carried out in the frame of the bilateral “Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Science and Technology of the Republic of South Africa and the Federal Ministry ofScience, Research and Economy of the Republic of Austria on Scientific and Technological Cooperation” and is financed equally by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) and by the South African Department ofScience and Technology (DST). The principle objective of the cooperation between the parties is to contribute to scientific advancement in both countries by funding researchers’ mobility in the frame of joint research projects in specified research


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fields; provide an opportunity for researchers to cooperate in an international setting and to develop their scientific careers, especially for early-stage1, mid-career2 as well as female researchers; support the advancement of basic research; andcontribute meaningfully to research capacity development.

More information here.Deadline Monday, 30 April, 2018

Member spotlightCecilia Alda Vidal, a IW fellow at the University of Manchester, recently presented in the African Centre for Cities (ACC) International Urban Conference. The conference was held at the University of Cape Town on the 1st to 3rd of February 2018 andcelebrated the tenth anniversary of the ACC.

Her presentation was part of a series of sessions organized by Kathleen Stokes (University of Manchester) and Nate Millington (University of Cape Town). Visit here for a summary of the sessions.

The session: Urban political ecologies, working infrastructures, included presentations reflecting about the relationships between labor, infrastructure, and politics in cities of the global south. Antje Bruns, Rossella Alba and Lara E. Bartels presentedfindings from WaterPower (Universität Trier), an on-going collaborative research project that explores the dynamics of urbanization, resource governance, and global environmental change in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area. Jonathan Silver alsopresented his paper The climate crisis, carbon capital and urbanisation: An urban political ecology of low-carbon restructuring in Mbale.

She says , "I presented findings from a paper co-authored with Michelle Kooy (IHE Delft) and Maria Rusca (King’s College London), Mapping operation and maintenance: an everyday analysis of inequalities within piped water supply in Lilongwe,Malawi. The presentation explored the production of different service levels within the networked water supply system in Lilongwe, Malawi. As in many other cities, in Lilongwe, a connection to the water network does not ensure that water will run whenone opens the tap. While some users receive water round-the-clock, those located in the Low Income Areas of the city frequently face intermittent supply or lack of water for up to 4-5 days. To explain this situation we follow the engineers and operatorsof the water utility as they conduct daily operational and maintenance work and show how their routines and decisions contribute to produce a highly differentiated service. Inequalities in water distribution are produced and maintained not only throughthe construction of infrastructure but through its daily operation and maintenance and reflect and reproduce other inequalities within the city. The conference was a very inspiring event that achieved to be both critical and propositional as it intended. Ihad the opportunity to attend excellent sessions and learn from the work other scholars and practitioners are doing on southern urbanisms. The conference was very well organized, engaging, and offered plenty of opportunities to meet new colleaguesand to discuss work in a friendly and stimulating environment. I have had really enjoyed it and came back refreshed and with lots of new ideas for my PhD project."

Recent PublicationsMembers of the International WaTERS Network frequently publish new and cutting edge work. If you are interested in sharing your publications with the network please forward them to [email protected].

Boelens, Rutgerd, Tom Perreault, Jeroen Vos, and Margreet Zwarteveen, eds. Water Justice. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Water justice is becoming an ever-more pressing issue in times of increasing water-based inequalities and discrimination. Megacities, mining, forestry, industry and agribusiness claim an increasingly large share of available surface and groundwaterreserves. Water grabbing and pollution generate poverty and endanger ecosystems' sustainability. Beyond large, visible injustices, the book also unfolds the many 'hidden' water world injustices, subtly masked as 'rational', 'equitable' and 'democratic'.It features critical conceptual approaches, including analysis of environmental, social, cultural and legal issues surrounding the distribution and management of water. Illustrated with case studies of historic and contemporary water injustices andcontestations around the world, the book lays new ground for challenging current water governance forms and unequal power structures. It also provides inspiration for building alternative water realities. With contributions from renowned scholars, thisis an indispensable book for students, researchers and policymakers interested in water governance, environmental policy and law, and political geography.

Chapters from IW members

1. Introduction: the multiple challenges and layers of water justice struggles Rutgerd Boelens, Jeroen Vos and Tom Perreault

2. Water governance as a question of justice: politics, rights and representation Dik Roth, Margreet Zwarteveen, K. C. Joy and Seema Kulkarni

3. Water grabbing: practices of contestation and appropriation of water resources in the context of expanding global capital Gert Jan Veldwisch, Jennifer Franco and Lyla Mehta

5. Urban water and sanitation injustice: an analytical framework Ben Crow; Part II. Hydrosocial De-Patterning and Re-Composition.

6. '... And not a single injustice remains': hydro-territorial colonization and techno-political transformations in Spain Erik Swyngedouw and Rutgerd Boelens.

8. Reconfiguration of hydrosocial territories and water justice struggles Lena Hommes, Rutgerd Boelens, Bibiana Duarte-Abadia, Juan Pablo Hidalgo and Jaime Hoogesteger.

10. Indigenous people and water governance in Canada: regulatory injustice and prospects for reform Karen Bakker, Rosie Simms, Nadia Joe and Leila Harris.

11. Sanitation justice? The multiple dimensions of urban sanitation inequalities Maria Rusca, Cecilia Alda-Vidal and Michelle Kooy.

12. Uniting diversity to build Europe's water movement Right2Water Jerry van den Berge, Rutgerd Boelens and Jeroen Vos.

13. Everyday water injustice and the politics of accommodation Frances Cleaver

14. Sharing our water: inclusive development and glocal water justice in the Anthropocene Joyeeta Gupta

15. Neoliberal water governmentalities, virtual water trade, and contestations Jeroen Vos and Rutgerd Boelens

17. The meaning of mining, the memory of water: collective experience as environmental justice Tom Perreault

18. New spaces for water justice? Groundwater extraction and changing gendered subjectivities in Morocco's Saiss region Lisa Bossenbroek and Margreet Zwarteveen

19. Conclusions: struggles for justice in a changing water world Tom Perreault, Rutgerd Boelens and Jeroen Vos.

Crystal Tremblay, Leila Harris (2018). Critical video engagements: Empathy, subjectivity and changing narratives of water resources through participatory video, Geoforum, 90, 174-182, ISSN 0016-7185, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.02.012.

Sen, S, SaciWATERS (2018) Genderscape of the Brahmaputra River An Exploratory Exposition. Report for The Asia Foundation.

Thomas, Kimberley Anh. "The river-border complex: a border-integrated approach to transboundary river governance illustrated by the Ganges River and Indo-Bangladeshi border." Water International 42.1 (2017): 34-53.

ConferencesCall for papers: Water Science and Collaborative Governance

The Section Editors of the Water Management, Science and Technology section of Case Studies in the Environment invite submissions for a special collection of case study articles on water science and collaborative governance for addressing waterquality.

Case Studies in the Environment (cse.ucpress.edu) is a journal of peer-reviewed case study articles, case study pedagogy articles, and a repository for editor-reviewed case study slides. The journal informs faculty, students, researchers, educators,professionals, and policymakers on case studies and best practices in the environmental sciences and studies.

Related manuscript submissions for this special collection should link water science and collaborative governance for addressing water quality. Papers will contribute to a special issue on the topic. Potential submissions should address issues relatedto water science and collaborative governance, in any geographical locale, and might include (but are not limited to) the examination of

· Opportunities/challenges of using mathematical modelling in collaboration· Approaches to communicating water science and technology to facilitate collaboration· Assessment of mapping and visualisation tools used in collaborative processes· The co-evolution of collaborative governance and modelling· The changing role of science and scientists in collaborative contexts

Closing date for submissions to this special collection on water science and collaborative governance for addressing water quality: May 1, 2018.


Two major Symposia on Climate Change Adaptation in Latin America: addressing water issuesThe International Climate Change Information Programme (ICCIP) is a world leader in education, communication and training on matters related to climate change. ICCIP is organising two major Symposia on Climate Change Adaptation in LatinAmerica, to be held in February 2019, and to which the Calls for Papers are now open.


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These are: 13th - 15th February 2019: World Symposium on Climate Change and Tourism, Bariloche, Argentina 20th - 21th February 2019: Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation in Latin America, Lima, Peru

The events cater for a wider debate on the links between climate change and water issues. The Symposia also offer an opportunity for researchers working on climate change to come together to discuss research methods, the results of empiricalresearch or exchange ideas about on-going and future research initiatives which aim at providing a better understanding of how climate issues influence various sectors. The events will involve researchers, government representatives, practitionersand other actors active in the field of climate change in the widest sense. As happens in all ICCIP events, papers submitted will be peer-reviewed and those which pass peer-review will be published in books as part of the Climate Change ManagementSeries, the world´s leading peer-reviewed book series on climate change adaptation.Further details on the Symposia are available at: World Symposium on Climate Change and Tourism Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation in Latin America

Educational OpportunitiesWater Security Short Course: 25-29 June 2018 University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, UK

The School of International Development, the Water Security Research Centre and the Anglian Centre for Water Studies (all at UEA) invite you to attend a short course on water security. This week-long course will critically reflect on the practical andtheoretical facets of water security to develop a better foundation upon which to achieve developmental and environmental objectives. You will be introduced to and explore different interpretations of water security in an international and developingeconomy context. You will acquire a wide variety of tools and analytical frameworks from a variety of disciplines and an extended understanding of this key national and global issue and will leave the course with an ability to critically assess andaddress current water security issues and policies and to gain an appreciation of the relations between water security and development, health, climate, food, and national security. The course is delivered by a range of different academics andprofessionals currently researching in these fields. This is also an excellent opportunity to develop your contacts and networks.

Find out more, including information on fees, here.

2018 RWSN webinar series (April 3rd - June 5th, 2018)

Mark your calendars! RWSN is delighted to announce its 2018 series of 10 webinars (on-line seminars) dedicated to rural water services, running every week from April 3rd until June 5th, in English, French, Spanish and/or Portuguese.

To attend any of the webinars, please register here by April 2nd.

We will hear from more than 20 organisations on a range of topics, including• A special double session with the WHO/ UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme to find out how you can make the most of the JMP data, and how countries nationalise SDG6 targets and indicators (May 2nd and May 29th);• The challenges specific to sustainable and safe water supply in peri-urban areas and small towns, with a focus on the urban poor (April 17th and 24th)• Practical ways of financing to reduce corruption in the sector (April 3rd)• To improve social accountability for better rural water services (May 8th)• A discussion on community-based water point management (April 10th)• A radio show-style session showcasing experiences with capacity strengthening for professional drilling (June 5th)• A debate on water kiosks (May 15th)• The role of self-supply and local operator models for universal access in rural areas (May 22nd).

Find the full list of webinars in English, French and Spanish here.Register here.Recording from previous webinars

Of InterestFLOWS Blog at IHE-Delft

Several of the Internatioanl WaTERS members working at IHE-Delft have been active blogging. FLOWs is the scientific blog of the Water Governance Chair Group at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (The Netherlands). The blog presents newsabout their research, education and capacity development activities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It aims at promoting an open and critical space to discuss water governance issues. Read more here.

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