Stockholm World Water Week 2024: USAID Participation

Session type: On-site, Workshop

Participatory Approaches to Resilience Through Water Security

The USAID-funded Senegal Water Resources Management activity leverages climate resilience, not as a crosscutting theme or objective, but as a direct driver for inclusive development through collaborative stakeholder engagement. Participants will engage with a conflict sensitive, locally-led approach to the challenges and opportunities Senegal faces through a gamified exercise in which small groups must work together to review physical artifacts and uncover evidence as they work toward a shared solution for water security.

Conveners

• USAID

Implementing Partners

• Chemonics International

Session type: Online

Bridging Borders: Water for Peaceful, Sustainable Futures

Water security must be achieved through collaborative efforts across borders, sectors, and constituencies. In this interactive session, USAID’s STAWI project will detail Kenya’s Intergovernmental Framework for resolving intergovernmental water disputes, drawing on Winrock’s transboundary and national water governance experience to co-develop a model for operationalizing the framework to mitigate conflict.

Conveners

• USAID
• Winrock International

Implementing Partners

• DAI

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Session type: Online

Ripple Effect: Innovating Governance in Water Management

This session will examine the role of governance in WASH, using case studies in Kenya and Ecuador and the USAID Matrix of Pillars and Principles of WASH and WRM Governance. We'll discuss adapting governance structures to dynamic contexts, fostering inclusivity, and promoting sustainable practices for local water access.

Conveners

• Government of Kenya
• Ministry of the Environment and Water, Ecuador
• USAID

Implementing Partners

• RTI International

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Session type: On-site, Workshop

SIWI Seminar Series (1/3): Monitoring and Data to Support Peace and Security

Data, monitoring, and data products including forecasts and warnings are critical in enabling effective and efficient management of water resources for competing demands and reducing risks of water-related disasters hence promoting peace and security. This session will emphasize data and products to strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration to achieve water security.

Conveners

• Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)
• USAID
• World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
• US Geological Survey
• Segura
• World Youth Parliament for Water

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Session type: On-site and Online

Water Solutions for a Resilient Net Zero Future

This event presents why and how to invest in water to enable resilient low emission development. It will present solutions across agriculture, water, sanitation, energy and nature based solutions; policy triggers to overcome barriers and mainstream water into climate actions; and financing; including high integrity carbon credits and more.

Conveners

• Alliance for Global Water Adaptation
• Asian Development Bank
• International Union for Conservation of Nature
• International Water Management Institute
• United States Department of Energy
• Water Initiative for Net Zero

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Session type: On-site

Coordinating Rural Water Investments to Promote Security and Stability

Water development is vital for social and economic advancement. It also alleviates conflicts that contribute to social instability. Progress requires oversight, coordination, and monitoring. However, limited collaboration among development partners can result in inefficiencies. By blending case studies with interactive dialogue, this session will explore strategies for effective donor coordination.

Conveners

• African Development Bank
• Aquaya Institute
• Asian Development Bank
• charity: water
• Inter-American Development Bank
• USAID
• United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund

Strategies to Combat Water Scarcity and Pollution

Freshwater resources availability and quality are deteriorating at an increasing pace, calling for bold action by all actors together, from State bodies, territories, industries and their supply-chains, and NGOs: Actors must blend large-scope reforms, emergency measures, and turnaround their water impacts.

USAID Global Water Coordinator, Nancy J. Eslick, will be a panelist.

Session type: Online

Public-Private Partnerships For Small-Scale, Decentralized Services

The USAID Rural Water Supply Activity is enhancing water infrastructure, reducing network losses, and fostering community participation for lasting impact through a novel approach to Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) that offers a promising approach to improve rural water access through decentralized management models. This session unveils the success of the USAID Rural Water Supply Activity in overcoming the effects of climate change on glacier melt, inefficient irrigation, exploitation of groundwater, and large network losses in drinking water supply to create healthier, more water secure communities.

Conveners

• USAID

Implementing Partners

• Chemonics International

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Session type: On-site and Online

SIWI Seminar Series (2/3): Institutions for Water, Peace and Cooperation: Basins Doing the Work

Building on the grassroots level insights from session one, session two analyses the importance and effectiveness of basin-level institutions across the world. It will examine how they prevent and tackle the issues surfaced in session one, the role of RBOs as “agents of peace”, and the interconnected thread of finance.

USAID Global Water Coordinator, Nancy J. Eslick, will moderate.

Conveners

• Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)
• United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
• Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France (MFA France)
• Water Witness International (WWI)

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Session type: Online

Bypassing Boundaries to Build Sustainable WASH Financing

This session presents the unique Public-Public Partnership agreement developed in Lebanon to finance wastewater treatment by bridging the boundary between two public sector bodies. In the wake of what the World Bank describes as one of the “most severe crises episodes globally since the mid-nineteenth century” — the Community Support Program worked to address the rapidly accelerating sanitation crisis caused by defaulted wastewater facilities. The session focuses on achievements and lessons learned in crisis management and strengthening wastewater infrastructure governance and sustainability through donor-funded capital development blended with local revenue generation.

Conveners

• USAID

Implementing Partners

• Chemonics International

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Session type: Online

Showcasing Jordan Water Sector Collaboration to Achieve Security and Sustainability

A 90-minute On-Site & Online session focusing on water security cooperation in Jordan, as a showcase of the collaborative effort needed to achieve a peaceful and sustainable future via water security in one of the most water scarce countries, located in the middle of a geopolitically unstable region.

Conveners

• Jordanian Ministry of Water and Irrigation
• USAID

Implementing Partners

• CDM Smith

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Session type: Online

Harmonizing Waters: Embracing Participatory Planning for Resolving Water-Related Conflicts

In our interactive session, the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) will share our experience on resolving water conflicts, specifically focusing on our community-driven approach near the Haiti-Dominican Republic border. We'll discuss our experience and ignite conversations on best practices, aiming to bring sustainable solutions to escalating tensions over water scarcity.

Conveners

• Force Organisée er Inclusive
• Institut National des Ressources Hydriques
• Maribaroux Entreprise de Services Agricoles
• The Government of Taiwan
• The Ministry of Environment
• University of Haiti Limonade
• USAID

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Session type: On-site and Online

Achieving gender equity within and beyond WASH systems

This session will share learning, expand networks and identify future actions to support more equitable WASH systems. Key questions: how can we be politically astute in driving progressive change through system-based approaches and how we can engage and amplify gender equity across multiple agendas – including health, climate and peacebuilding?

USAID Global Water Coordinator, Nancy J. Eslick, will be a panelist.

Conveners

• IRC WASH
• Agenda for Change
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, UK
• GOAL Global
• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Sanitation and Water for All
• Self Help Africa
• SNV
• University of Leeds
• Water For People
• WaterAid
• WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP)
• Emory University

Session type: Online

Three Bridges toward Water Security in Kenyan Counties

The Government of Kenya, together with its development partners and subnational institutions, will share examples of how virtual bridges – built through co-creation, intra-sectoral resource and capacity sharing, and alignment to transparent regulatory expectations – are yielding tangible and systemic advances in water security at the county level.

Conveners

• USAID

Implementing Partners

• Aquaya Institute
• Tetra Tech
• DAI

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Session type: Online

Forging Connections: Empowering Resilient Communities for Sustainable WASH Services

In Cote d’Ivoire, USAID is facilitating a collaborative institutional framework to empower key municipal stakeholders with transparent, data-driven WASH planning and budgeting. Strengthening water and sanitation services, including private sector involvement, enhances municipal resilience against population fluctuations from instability, violence, and climate change, offering a replicable model for other municipalities.

Conveners

• African Water Association
• Municipality of Bouake
• Municipality of San Pedro
• USAID

Implementing Partners

• Tetra Tech Inc.

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Session type: On-site

The Data Speaks: Status Update of SDG 6

To follow-up on and review progress towards SDG 6 it is important to know the status of water and sanitation at multiple points in time. This event will present the results of the integrated process of collecting country data on the SDG 6 global indicators in 2023.

USAID Global Water Coordinator, Nancy J. Eslick, will be a panelist.

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Session type: Online

Activating the Market for Menstrual Health

This session will present the comprehensive approach we are using to build a vibrant and sustainable market for menstrual hygiene products in partnership with local government, local entrepreneurs, and community organizations in Western Kenya.

Conveners

• LACOMP Consult
• Matitibabu Foundation
• Society Empowerment Project
• USAID

Implementing Partners

• RTI International

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Session type: On-site, Workshop

Leveraging Data for Water Security in Fragile and Conflict-affected Environments

Discover data-driven insights for water decision-making in conflict zones. Join this interactive session with global and local experts, implementers, government actors, and donors. Learn from real-world approaches worldwide, then delve into breakout discussions on critical data factors—formats, use, transparency, and equity—to iteratively improve data-based strategies in fragile environments.

Conveners

• Mercy Corps
• Save the Children
• USAID
• World Resources Institute

Session type: On-site and Online

5-Key Lessons for Strengthening Sanitation Markets

Come on a journey with the UNICEF-LIXIL Make a Splash! Partnership where we share 5 key lessons from 5 years of strengthening markets to reach 10 million consumers. Through storytelling and role play we share practical insights, from working beyond supply and demand interventions to leveraging public-private promotions.

USAID featured speaker.

Conveners

• FINISH Mondial
• LIXIL United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund

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