KCL WASH Week Department of Geography March 18-‐25th 2015 Wednesday, March 18th Time & Place Session Speaker Inaugural WASH Week panel for World Water Day 16.00 – 17.30 Room K6.63 King’s Building Why WASH matters: Evidence from Tanzania and Zimbabwe Professor Frances Cleaver Head of Environment, Politics and Development Department of Geography KCL Dr. Alex Loftus Senior Lecturer -‐ Department of Geography KCL Brendan Bromwich KCL, UNEP Associate -‐ Sudan (United Nations Environment Programme) Chaired by Professor Tony Allan, KCL 2008 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate The Human Right to Water WASH and the environment Panel Discussion Tuesday, March 24th WASH in complex emergencies 09.30-‐10.15 Pyramid Room (K4U.04) King’s Building Emergency Humanitarian WASH: Carmen Paradiso Priority issues and lessons from Global WASH Advisor conflict and climatic displacement International Medical Corps Panel on WASH and infectious diseases: Combatting Cholera and Ebola 10.30-‐12.30 Pyramid Room (K4U.04) King’s Building WASH for disease prevention Combatting Cholera through Behavior Change Responding to Ebola Panel Discussion TBC, Médecins Sans Frontières Simon Lawson C4D Cholera Consultant UNICEF Alice Klein Media Manager Save The Children Chaired by Carmen Paradiso, International Medical Corps Panel on WASH ownership and participation 13.00-‐15.15 Pyramid Room (K4U.04) King’s Building Working with institutions: the challenges of financing and maintaining Urban Wash in low income areas Sam Drabble Research & Evaluation Manager WSUP (Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor) Informal and private sector management models in WASH in Angola and Mozambique Mariana Matoso Research Officer -‐ Water Policy ODI (Overseas Development Institute) 15.15-‐16.00 ‘Local Ownership’ of WASH in Pakistan and beyond Amiera Sawas Research Associate -‐ Department of Geography KCL Community Led Total Sanitation Panel discussion Cathy Stephen WASH Advisor Plan International Chair TBC Reception Wednesday, March 25th WASH and Climate Change 12.00-‐12.45 Room K3.11 King’s Building Adaptation to climate change and risk screening for WASH Naomi Oates Research Officer – Water Policy ODI (Overseas Development Institute) Panel on WASH, gender and vulnerability 13.00 – 15.00 Room S-‐1.06 Strand Building Vulnerability, violence and gendered access to WASH in Pakistan Embedding gender-‐inclusiveness in Urban WASH programme design Vulnerability, equity and inclusiveness in WASH Violence, gender and WASH – research and a practitioners toolkit Panel Discussion Amiera Sawas Research Associate -‐ Department of Geography, KCL Sam Drabble Research & Evaluation Officer, WSUP (Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor) Louisa Gosling Programme Manager Wateraid TBC SHARE (Sanitation and Hygiene Applied Research for Equity) London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Chaired by Amiera Sawas Session on Sanitation and Hygiene post 2015 15.15-‐16.00 Room S-‐1.01 Strand Building 16.15-‐17.00 Room S-‐1.01 Strand Building 17.00-‐17.45 Room S-‐1.01 Strand Building 17.45 Shared Sanitation and universal coverage: is it an improved form of sanitation or not? The sanitation chain at city level: Improving faecal sludge management (FSM) Dr. Jeroen Ensink Senior Lecturer Public Health Engineering London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Georges Mikhael, Head of Sanitation, WSUP (Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor) Hygiene – the neglected but vital component of WASH TBC Drinks Reception All events are located on the Strand Campus of Kings College London. Please Register for the WASH Week events at http://goo.gl/forms/qt2g2tw6uf and email [email protected] and/or [email protected] with questions.