Monday, October 24

7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m EDT.: Registration & Breakfast

Doors open at 7:30 a.m. Join us for a continental breakfast!
Friday Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.: Side Events

• JMP progress report on WASH in healthcare facilities: WASH and IPC - World Health Organization/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene (JMP); World Health Organization; UNICEF
• ​Addressing gaps in the sanitation and hygiene sector workforce – a roadmap consultation - USAID; WASHPaLS #2; WaterAid, AMCOW and Others​
• (CANCELED) What are the 'levers' for scaling pit emptying & transport businesses in Kampala & Blantyre? - Water For People; Le Fil Consulting; Kampala Capital City Authority; Blantyre City Council​
• Tailored rural water safety monitoring: exploring innovative models for augmenting water quality data - The Aquaya Institute and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Ghana, on behalf of REAL-Water (Rural Evidence and Learning for Water) Program of USAID; Oxford University and Eawag, on behalf of the REACH pro-poor water security programme of UK Aid Direct; WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP)
• ​The invisible workforce: how to value women's role in sanitation? - Indian Institute for Human Settlements; OVERDUE research team (DPU/UCL, Etre Egale, SLURC, CCI Tanzania, Ardhi University, Austral, FACE, OGDS, CFCEM/GA, GEPALEF, SiMIRALENTA/GA)​
• (CANCELED) Assessment on the current status of the local latrine solutions promoted by (GO, NGOS & PRIVATE SECTORS) in Ethiopia - SNV

30 Minute Break

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Plenary (GrummAn Auditorium)

Opening Plenary: The Current State and Future of WASH Panelists

Ms. Ann Thomas, Ms. Clarissa Brocklehurst, Mr. Mohamad Bah, Mr. Johnathan Kampata, Mr. Melaku Worku Befekadu, Ms. Carolien van der Voorden, Mr. Darren Saywell

UNICEF and the WHO, along with other partners, produced three reports assessing the current state of the world's efforts to achieve universal access to WASH services. These three reports – State of the World's Drinking Water; State of the World's Sanitation, and State of the World's Hand Hygiene – have identified critical gaps in our approach to meeting these needs and serve as a renewed call-to-action. These reports are an important stock-taking exercise, support development actors navigate the immediate future to 2030, and provide – in the near term – an input to the preparatory process for the high-level UN Water Conference in March 2023. We will review key findings from the reports, implications for different stakeholder groups, and discuss strategies for how the sector should respond.

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.: Lunch and Lunch Sessions

• Networking Lunch at Trillium Auditorium
• Toolkits Session - Ms. Amanda Miner, Envicom Corporation with Mr. Joseph Ampadu-Boakye, Safe Water Network and Mr. James Elliot Brown, York University
  - The Safe Water Resilience Toolkit: A Planning and Asset Management Platform for Safe Water Enterprises
  - Keeping water safe to the last cup: Demonstrating the new Safe Water Optimization Tool V2
• Spotlight on Careers in WaSH: Dr. David Berendes (CDC) and Ms. Esther Shaylor (UNICEF)
• UNC Water Institute and Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering Alumni Lunch

1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: Side Events

• ​Integration for the win! Integrating WASH, nutrition and gender-transformative approaches for early childhood development - Max Foundation; PLAN International; Sanitation Learning Hub; Institute of Development Studies; The Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne
• ​Taking the poop out of water: from global to local, strengthening capacity to test and regulate water treatment technologies - World Health Organization; The Aquaya Institute; CAWST
• ​Global supply chain challenge and local manufacturing: risks and rewards - PSI; Lixil; SilAfrica; SPLASH; Happy Tap
• ​Decoding workers' safety in urban sanitation: Lessons from research and practice - World Bank; Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS)
• ​Unpacking safely managed drinking water services: identifying limiting factors and filling data gaps - WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP); Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG)
• ​Engaging Faith Actors for WASH Sustainability: Emerging Approaches, Results, and Challenges - Living Water International; World Vision International; Tearfund

30 Minute Break

3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.: Verbal Presentations

• COVID-19 Surveillance
• Point-of-use Water Quality Treatment
• Physical Labor in WaSH
• Menstrual Hygiene Management

4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.: Poster Presentations and Happy Hour

Please join us in the Friday's Center Atrium for poster presentations and Happy Hour. Each day will feature more than 20 different presenters. During the session, presenters will hold one-on-one or small group meetings to answer questions about their poster and to discuss their research. Poster presenters will have a 30-60 second “elevator pitch” about their research prepared for attendees who stop by their poster.

Tuesday, October 25

7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. EDT: Registration & Breakfast

Doors open at 7:30 a.m. Join us for a continental breakfast!
Friday Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.: Side Events

• ​Safe drinking-water management in small systems - Implementation of WHO's Guidelines for small drinking-water supplies - World Health Organization; UNICEF; Rural Water Supply Network; World Vision
• ​Introducing the new UNICEF Game Plan for Safely Managed Sanitation - UNICEF
• ​Tackling Gender Challenges in Urban Sanitation: What Has Worked? - Administrative Staff College of India, with cooperation from Lusaka Water Supply and Sanitation Company; Kampala Capital City Authority; ITN-BUET; Emory University; Athena Infonomics
• ​How Do You Measure Success for WASH in Healthcare Facilities? A Working Session on Indicators - Emory University CGSW; World Vision; Amref Africa; PATH; Terre des Hommes; Transform International; University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill; DRI; Royal Roads University
• ​Disconnect between policy and practice and How data can marry the gap - Ministry of Water Resources - Sierra Leone; Stanford University; Colorado Boulder University
• ​Monitoring indicators of climate risk to WASH service delivery - University of Technology, Sydney

30 Minute Break

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Plenary (GRUMMAN AUDITORIUM)

Driving WASH Sector Strengthening: Developing the Capacity to Innovate

Ms. Clarissa Brocklehurst, Mr. Jan Willem Rosenboom, Ms. Norhan Sadik, Dr. Tanvir Ahmed, Ms. Eva Muhia, Mr. Jonathan Kampata

UN Water has developed the SDG 6 Acceleration Framework, comprised of five accelerators that are designed to “dramatically improve support to countries” to achieve SDG 6. Two of these accelerators are capacity development and innovation. These tend to be both neglected and misunderstood. This panel will explore issues associated with these accelerators from the perspective of public sector agencies tasked with rapidly developing capacity and new approaches to achieve ambitious sector targets, private sector companies seeking to provide sustainable services, development agencies trying to support capacity development and innovation, and training institutions mandated to create a suitably skilled sector workforce.​

The Jeroen Ensink Memorial Prize/Waterlines Award

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.: Lunch and Lunch Sessions

• Networking Lunch at Trillium Auditorium
• Tech Showcase
• Spotlight on Careers in WaSH: Dr. Rick Johnston (JMP) and Dr. Christine Stauber (Georgia State University)

1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: Side Events

• ​Strengthening norms and policy frameworks to drive acceleration towards universal hand hygiene - World Health Organization; UNICEF
• ​The method in the madness: Understanding how to catalyze household investment in sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa through market-based sanitation - USAID FSG; SNV; TetraTech; PSI; RCE Nice House of Plastics
• ​Innovative financing approaches to close the gap between costs and willingness-to-pay for rural water services - Global Communities; The Aquaya Institute; Deloitte; Safe Water Network; World Vision; Water4; USAID
• ​Sub-national government leadership for sanitation: experiences and learnings from East and West Africa - Helvetas; Logo Local Government Area, Nigeria; Molota Commune, Guinea; National Ministry of Health, Kenya; N'Dali Commune, Benin; Nyamagabe District, Rwanda; Sanitation Learning Hub, Institute of Development Studies; Siaya County, Kenya; UNICEF; United Purpose; WaterAid; Yendi Municipal Assembly, Ghana
• ​Impact and learnings from public private partnerships for rural water supply in Madagascar - CARE; Sandandrano; Bushproof; CRS, WaterAid
• ​Opportunities and Challenges of National-Level Monitoring Systems for Sanitation and Hygiene - Institute of Development Studies, UNICEF, USAID

30 Minute Break

3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.: Verbal Presentations

• Urban Sanitation
• Antimicrobial Resistance
• Sanitation
• Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Interventions
• Hand Hygiene

4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.: Poster Presentations and Happy Hour

Please join us in the Friday's Center Atrium for poster presentations and Happy Hour. Each day will feature more than 20 different presenters. During the session, presenters will hold one-on-one or small group meetings to answer questions about their poster and to discuss their research. Poster presenters will have a 30-60 second “elevator pitch” about their research prepared for attendees who stop by their poster.

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Wednesday, October 26

7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. EDT: Registration & Breakfast

Doors open at 7:30 a.m. Join us for a continental breakfast!
Friday Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.: Side Events

• ​JMP update on WASH in schools with a focus on pandemic preparedness and disabilities - UNICEF; World Health Organization; GIZ; WaterAid; Emory University; Global WinS Network
• ​Institutional Strengthening Plans: Promoting Effective and Resilient Local and National Systems for WASH Governance - USAID MuniWASH / Tetra Tech; African Water Association (AfWA)
• ​Pathways to WASH Friendly Schools: Evidence from Uganda - DevWorks International; Uganda Water and Sanitation Network (UWASNET); United Nations Children's Fund in Uganda; Uganda Ministry of Education and Sports; USAID Uganda Sanitation for Health Activity
• ​Strengthening evidence on sanitation workers' rights to health, safety and dignity – experiences and a research agenda - Initiative for Sanitation Workers (a collaborative initiative by WaterAid, SNV, WHO, ILO, World Bank)
• ​Exploring Climate impacts on rural sanitation and hygiene practices in Burkina Faos, Laos and Bangladesh - Sanitation Learning Hub; Institute of Development Studies; Institute for Sustainable Futures, University Technology Sydney; UNICEF Burkina Faso; SNV Laos; WaterAid Bangladesh
• ​Rethinking rural sanitation from conceptualization to operationalization towards universal access - UNICEF; WaterAid; Plan International

30 Minute Break

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Plenary (GRUMMAN AUDITORIUM)

Current State and Future of the Water and Sanitation Sectors in Haiti

Director General Guito Edouard, Dr. Ruth Angerville, Mr. Daniel Denis, Dr. Marie Lina Excellent

This session will bring together officials from the Haitian national sectorial regulatory authority DINEPA to discuss their role in: (1) developing the potable water and sanitation sector, (2) building infrastructures of drinking water and sanitation in Haiti, and (3) controlling the actors of the potable water and sanitation sector. This is an opportunity to engage with policy makers and institution builders that have steered the water and sanitation sector in Haiti through a difficult time of the global pandemic and three years of social unrest.

• ​Sanitation Workers Award
• Remarks from Ms. Mary James Gill

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.: Lunch and Lunch Sessions

• Networking Lunch at Trillium Auditorium
• Tech Showcase
• Spotlight on Careers in WaSH: Dr. Sera Young (Northwestern) and Angella Rinehold (WHO)

1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: Side Events

• ​Climate resilient urban sanitation: Landscape study and setting a knowledge and learning agenda - Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (ISF-UTS); Asian Development Bank; DPHE Bangladesh; CWAS CRDF-CEPT University; Leeds University
• ​Toxic Metals in Drinking Water - Water Institute at UNC; WHO; UNICEF; IAPMO; World Vision
• ​Measuring human experiences with water to reveal disparities, inform policy, and prioritize action - USAID; IMMANA; SIIL; Montclaire; EQUIDE/Ibero; ILSSI; Northwestern University; Swiss Water Sanitation Consortium; Yale University; Helvetas; EQUIDE/Iberoamericano University; Feed the Future Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab; Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small Scale Irrigation; Innovative Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition (IMMANA); Montclair State University
• ​Localization in fragile contexts: Decentralizing WASH systems through the lens of system actors - Helvetas; IRC WASH; Lavallé Municipality (Haiti)
• ​It Takes the Community: Closing the Sanitation Access Gap in High-Income Countries - DigDeep; Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium; Wastewater Alternatives and Innovations; DigDeep's Navajo Water Project; Blackbelt Unincorporated Wastewater Program; New York State Center for Clean Water Technology
• ​Effective blended financing approaches to achieve safe sanitation - CEO FINISH Mondial deputed by WASTE

30 Minute Break

3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.: Verbal Presentations

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Treatment Technologies
• Neglected Communities in US and Canada
• COVID-19
• Sanitation Interventions
• Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Interventions

4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.: Poster Presentations

Please join us in the Friday's Center Atrium for poster presentations. Each day will feature more than 20 different presenters. During the session, presenters will hold one-on-one or small group meetings to answer questions about their poster and to discuss their research. Poster presenters will have a 30-60 second “elevator pitch” about their research prepared for attendees who stop by their poster.

6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.: Conference Dinner

Join us for the conference dinner including special musical guests The Unsustainables (check them out here), a photo booth, and a light program.

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Thursday, October 27

7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. EDT: Registration & Breakfast

Doors open at 7:30 a.m. Join us for a continental breakfast!
Friday Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.: Side Events

• ​Evidence and scaled impact: saving children's lives through water treatment - Government of Uganda, Ministry of Water and Environment; Development Innovation Lab at the University of Chicago's Becker Friedman Institute for Economics; Evidence Action, Dispensers for Safe Water program
• ​State of the World's Drinking Water - World Health Organization; World Bank; UNICEF
• ​Emergency WASH Research and Capacity Building Priorities from a Donor Perspective - USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance
• ​Safely Managed Piped Water Works in Rural Ghana - Safe Water Network; Whitten & Roy Partnership
• ​One Health: Neglected Tropical Diseases, WASH & WASH in Schools - GIZ
• ​Setting a Standard and Tracking Success in Improving Access to Clean Water: the American Water Access Survey - The Center for Water Security and Cooperation; Other Local Organizations

30 Minute Break

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Plenary (GRUMMAN AUDITORIUM)

Advancing the WASH agenda in 2023

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of El Salvador to the United Nations Ms. Egriselda López, Mr. Bruce Gordan, Mr. Joel Kolker, Mr.Diamane Diome,
Mr. Johannes Cullmann, Dr. Aaron Salzberg

In March 2023, the UN will be hosting the highest-level meeting on water in over 50 years. Governments, international organizations, and stakeholders from across the globe will be working to build new partnerships and take renewed action to accelerate action on SDG6. This session will bring together participants from the preparatory meetings for the UN Water Conference in New York earlier in the week to discuss the goals of the Conference, its expected outcomes, and how we - as the WaSH community - can use 2023 to achieve universal access to WaSH services. This is an opportunity to engage those that will be shaping the agenda in 2023.

JWASHDEV Special Edition Article Selection

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.: Lunch and Lunch Sessions

• Networking Lunch at Trillium Auditorium
• Healthcare Facility Interventions Session - Dr. David Berendes, U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Mr. Adam Drolet, PATH
  - Strengthening WASH services in health care facilities with chlorine generators: Policy, implementation, and data approaches
  - Local production of alcohol-based hand rub (ABHR): scaling/considerations for healthcare facilities and community locations
• Spotlight on Careers in WaSH: Ms. Joyce Kisiangani (The Aquaya Institute) and Dr. James Winter (USAID)

1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: Side Events

• ​Critical Aquifers in Haiti: Strategies for integrating water resource knowledge with WASH and water security policy - Northwater International; Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); Inter-American Development Bank (IDB); Haiti National Clean Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Strategy (HANWASH); Oklahoma State University
• ​Stop collecting dust: New Partnerships in implementation research and learning - USAID; TetraTech; The Aquaya Institute; FSG, FHI360; enCompass
• ​Hand Hygiene in Communities and Public Settings: Assessing Current Evidence and Best Practices - Global Handwashing Partnership; World Health Organization; UNICEF; Essity; SC Johnson
• (CANCELED) Improving WASH access, governance, and sustainability for dispersed rural families and Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon - CARE Peru; CARE USA
• ​Beyond Access: Designing WASH Programing to Strengthen Women's and Girls Empowerment - World Vision; Emory University; Global Water Challenge; Local government representative from Latin America
• ​Developing an evidence-based WASH implementation reporting guideline - Emory University; University of Washington; World Vision; CARE; SNV; RGHI

30 Minute Break

3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.: Verbal Presentations

• WaSH Financing
• Climate Change
• Household water supply
• Rural WaSH
• Microbial Detection

4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.: Poster Presentations and Happy Hour

Please join us in the Friday's Center Atrium for poster presentations and Happy Hour. Each day will feature more than 20 different presenters. During the session, presenters will hold one-on-one or small group meetings to answer questions about their poster and to discuss their research. Poster presenters will have a 30-60 second “elevator pitch” about their research prepared for attendees who stop by their poster.

Friday, October 28

7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. EDT: Registration & Breakfast

Doors open at 7:30 a.m. Join us for a Continental Breakfast!
Friday Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.: Side Events

• ​USAID's Contribution to the Global Water Strategy: An Overview of USAID's Agency-Specific Plan - USAID
• ​Improving financial and water safety management of rural water systems - The Aquaya Institute; Conrad N. Hilton Foundation; IRC; International Lifeline Fund; Water4
• ​Implementing passive chlorination at scale: strategies for climate resilience, service delivery, and financing - University of Oxford; REACH Programme of UK Aid Direct; University of California, Berkely; Evidence Action; The Aquaya Institute; Water4
• ​Scaling Urban sanitation in Tamil Nadu, India; Key Lessons and Challenges - Indian Institute for Human Settlements; Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• ​WASH and Energy: An Integrated Service Delivery Discussion - World Vision; Abt Associates; RESOLVE; Bechtel
• ​Brass Tack and Impacts of Gender Transformative Approaches for WASH - CARE

30 Minute Break

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Plenary

The White House, Congress, and the United Nations: A Global Pivot on Water

Dr. Aaron Salzberg, Mr. Chris Lindsay, Mr. John Sparks, Ms. Lisa Schechtman, Mr. Julian Katchinoff, Ms. Sareen Malik, Mr. Rami Webeh, Mr. Chris Homan (invited)

Last May, the White House released its Action Plan of Global Water Security. This closing plenary will discuss what this new Action Plan can do for international WASH and Water security overall, its influence into future Administrations, what is needed now from USG agencies, Congress, and the broader water sector, and its impact on other governments and multilateral efforts. The panelists will also consider the US Whole of Government Global Water Strategy and how USAID's particular focus and capacity will help implement the Action Plan, how these reports might influence the UN Year of Water Conference in March 2023, and the role of Congress in USG Wash funding now and in the future.

Closing Remarks from The Water Institute at UNC

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.: Lunch

Networking Lunch at Trillium Auditorium

1:30 p.m.: FIELD TRIPS

Sign up at The Water Institue at UNC table during the conference to visit the following locations:

• Jones Ferry Road Water Treatment Plant (Carrboro, North Carolina)
• Mason Farm Wastewater Treatment Plant (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
• EPA Cookstove Lab (Durham, North Carolina)