Making Progress on Sanitation and Hygiene: Lessons from the Field and Breaking the Silence on Areas of Neglect

Tuesday 19 August
Evening Side Event

Convenors: IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and WaterAid

17:15-19:00   Room K11

Leading hygiene and sanitation practitioners in South Asia met at the start of this International Year of Sanitation to share their successes and failures, and identify the challenges and constraints to scaling up access to safe sanitation. The wide range of issues, and the consequent advocacy messages and research needs that were identified are at the centre of this event and will be portrayed in detail. Additionally, the silence on two areas of neglect will be broken. Rokeya Ahmed, from WaterAid Bangladesh, will present on Menstrual Hygiene Management and Bhasha Singh will present on Manual Scavenging. Presentations will be followed by participant discussion.