From Pilots to Policies: Working with Communities to Improve Urban Water and Sanitation

Friday 22 August
Lunch Side Event

Convenors: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), Development Workshop Angola (DW), IIED-America Latina, Orangi Pilot Project Research and Training Institute (OPP-RTI), People’s Dialogue Ghana (PDG) and Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC)

13:00-14:30        Room K24

Event Summary and Conclusions

The side event presented work being carried out by IIED and five of its partners in Angola, Argentina, Ghana, India and Pakistan. The project documents innovative & inspiring examples of locally driven water and sanitation initiatives in deprived urban areas. It provides a basis for better understanding of how to identify and build upon local initiatives that are likely to improve water and sanitation in low-income settlements. The presentation also showed how local organisations in those countries have managed to: scale up successful projects; work collaboratively; finance water and sanitation schemes; and use information systems such as mapping to drive local action and monitor improvements.

Presentation from the event

Achieving Improvements in Urban Water and Sanitation Provision: Experiences and Challenges from Ghana

Integrated urban environmental management
IIED-AL experience in Argentina

The Work of SPARC in the Urban Poor Communities of India

Orangi Pilot Project (OPP) – Institutions and Programs

Water Service Provision for the Poor in Post-Conflict Angola