Develop a global cooperation among governments (local authorities/mayors, parliamentarians, ministers, heads of governments/state), intergovernmental, bilateral and multilateral organizations, financial institutions and non-governmental organizations, water professionals, scientists, policy and decision makers, representatives of water-related sectors and draw attention for protection, prevention and preparation in water and wastewater management and services during pandemic situation to ensure access to safe water, to establish a platform encouraging WASH related entrepreneurial and operable capacity building activities, dissemination of WBE activities for urban settings especially in non-sewered low-income countries.
Expected outcomes:
• Allow combining the power of irrelevant parties to achieve WASH activities even under pandemic situations,
• Be prepared for possible future pandemics considering WASH requirements in low and middle income countries, especially in non-sewered areas
• Dissemination of WASH requirements under pandemic situations
• Increasing interest from financial funding agencies, scientific disciplines, water associations, globally active water operators and major actors to develop capacity building activities especially for training of specialists and setting-up infrastructure (e.g., labs) and logistics of WBE activities.
• The outcomes of the session support the following Sustainable Development Goals; 1.A, 6.1, 6.A, 7.A, 9.1, 9.5, 17.7
- Opening by moderator (5’)
- Presentations and QA at the end of each presentation (6x10’+5x3’=75’)
- Closing by moderator (5’)
Turkish Water Institute (SUEN)
