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Sanitation

UNW-DPC actively seeks to strengthen the ability of UN-Water members and partners to support Member States in achieving water and sanitation-related goals and commitments, including the Millenium Development Goals. Sanitation is a major focus of UN-Water, particularly in its Task Forces on Sanitation and Wastewater, of which UNW-DPC is a member. World Water Day for 2010 focused on addressing water quality. At World Water Day 2010, UNW-DPC co-organized a Stakeholder Dialogue together with UNEP, UN-HABITAT and the other UN-Water programmes. World Water Day 2011 dealt with urbanization, which overlaps with both sanitation and water quality issues.

Activities in this area include an international training programme for mayors on urban water and sanitation in Nanjing, China in November 2008, a UN-Water seminar on "UN-Water's Perspective on Water Supply and Sanitation and Needs for Capacity Development in Africa" in March 2010 at the International African Water Congress in Kampala, Uganda, UNW-DPC's activities at the 2010 World Water Week, and activities at the 2011 World Water Week.

More information on UN-Water's Task Force on Sanitation is provided here .

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    UNW-DPC at Wasser Berlin

    UNW-DPC contributed to Wasser Berlin from 23 - 26 April, organizing a session within the International Forum together with UNESCO-UNEVOC on "New Trends in Water-Related Capacity Development" and staffing a pavilion, including other members and partners of UN-Water. Read more in the summary report.
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    4th Regional Workshop in the "Safe Use of Wastewater in Agriculture" project

    FAO and UNW-DPC, together with WHO, UNEP, UNU-INWEH, ICID and IWMI and local partner ANA (the Autoridad Nacional de Agua), organized the fourth in a series of regional workshops (this time for Latin American countries) in a multi-year UN-Water project on the “Safe Use of Wastewater in Agriculture” from 11-13 December in Lima, Peru. Click here for a full summary report.
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    IFAT 2012 report and video

    UNW-DPC has created a video and report on UN-Water's involvement in IFAT in May 2012, including participation from more than a dozen UN-Water members, partners and programmes. Download the full report here.
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    Mid-Term Proceedings for the "Capacity Development for the Safe Use of Wastewater in Agriculture"

    UNW-DPC has just a mid-term proceedings on "Capacity Development for the Safe Use of Wastewater in Agriculture: a Collaboration of UN-Water Members and Partners." It elaborates on the results of the activities so far within the multi-year capacity development project with FAO, WHO, UNEP, UNU-INWEH, UNW-DPC, ICID and IWMI. Downloadable here.
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