WASH events calendar

Full overview

  - Event involving IRC as (co-)organiser or contributor

2018-2028: International Decade for Action: Water for sustainable development
2021-2030: UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

WASH discussions:
SuSanA Forum |  RWSN Dgroups |  WASH in Schools Network | KnowledgePoint Forum | SNVWater groups 

 2024

• 04 April - 04 December 2024 - [Virtual Event] NEWAVE - The Next Wave of Water Governance Diffuse Conference
• Until 25 October 2024 - [Innovation Challenge] World Bank Youth Innovation Challenge: Water Solutions for a New Climate Reality [Application deadline: 23 February 2024]

October 2024

• 13-17 October - [Event]  AUC, AMCOW, AfDB: 9th Africa Water Week - Placing Water and Sanitation at the Heart of Achieving Agenda 2063 - The Africa We Want, Cairo, Egypt [Call for Session Proposals - extended deadline 30 Aug]
• 13-17 October - [Event] Cairo Water Week: Water and Climate: Building Resilient Communities, Cairo, Egypt 
•  14-18 October - [Hybrid Event] UNC Water & Health Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
• 15 October - [Global Event] Global Handwashing Day
• 16 October - [Hybrid Event] WHO: Conducting a gender analysis for climate change and health vulnerability and adaptation assessments, Geneva, Switzerland, 09:30–11:00 and 15:00–16:30 CEST
• 16-19 October - [Event] Quercus Group & SARDA: Innovate4WASH 2024: Advancing Sustainable Innovations for WASH in Africa - Navigating Challenges, Embracing Change, Kisumu City, Kenya
• 18-21 October - [Event] 2nd IWA Conference on Sustainable Natural and Engineered Water Systems Management (2nd IWA SWSM-2024), Xi'an, China
• 19 October - [Virtual Event] ISNTD Water: Water, sanitation & hygiene for tropical diseases
• 21-24 October - [Event] IWA: 4th International Conference on Disinfection and Disinfection By-Products (DDBP 2024), Almería, Spain
• 21-25 October - [Event] CWWA 33rd Annual Conference: Collective Regional Action - Toward a Climate Resilient, Water Secure and Zero Waste Caribbean, Port of Spain, Trinidad
• 24-29 October - [Event] IWA Biofilms 2024 Conference : biofilms for nutrient removal and carbon neutrality, Shanghai, China
• 28 October - [Event] DevelopMetrics: AI for Development Conference, Barcelona, Spain
• 29 October - [Webinar] ADB: Virtual Business Opportunities Seminar on Pacific Countries - Water and Urban Development, , 08:00-10:00 am (Manila time) | 02:00-04:00 am CEST

November 2024

• 04-08 November - [Hybrid Event] UN-Habitat: World Urban Forum (WUF12), Cairo, Egypt
• 10-14 November - [Event] 17th IWA Small Water and Wastewater Systems and 9th IWA Resource Oriented Sanitation, Curtiba, Brazil
• 11-22 November - [Event] UN Climate Change Conference (COP-29), Baku, Abseron, Azerbaijan
• 12 November - [Webinar] Demystifying Systems Strengthening in WASH (Agenda for Change): Webinar Registration - Zoom, 14:00 CET
• 12 November - [Event] Toilet Board Coalition WASH Leaders Forum, Mumbai, India
• 12-14 November - [Event] IWA Digital Water Summit, Bilbao, Spain
• 12-14 November - [Event] IEREK: 1st international conference on Sustainable Water Management and Resource Adaptation: Security and Energy Nexus, Paris, France
• 13 November - [Webinar] Using Demographic and Health Survey Data to Drive WASH Decisions (USAID) 9:00 ET/ 15:00 CET/ 17:00 Nairobi time
• 14 November - [Webinar] IHE Water and Development Partnership Programme: Water and Development Symposium, 14:00-17:00 CET
• 17-21 November - [Event] IWA/University of Queensland: Nutrient Removal and Recovery Conference 2024, Gold Coast, Australia
• 18-19 November - [Event[ G20 Brasil 2024, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• 18-19 November - [Event] Aqua Foundation: XVI World Aqua Congress - Leveraging Water for Peace, New Delhi, India
• 19 November - [Global Event] World Toilet Day
• 21 November -  [Webinar] Can technical innovation really increase handpump functionality? Experiences from Uganda and Malawi, 14:00 CET 
• 24-29 November - [Event] IWA & AFD: 18th International Conference on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control, Fort-de-France, Martinique
• 26 November -  [Webinar] Mission: possible? Chlorinated water for all – progress and prospects (REACH - Water Quality Programme), 14:00 CET

December 2024

• 02-03 December - [Event] AMCOW: Partners Retreat, [Location TBC]
• 3 December - [Webinar] Ensuring that water supply services perform: learning from implementation and research (Stop the Rot), 14:00 CET
• 06-08 December - [Event] 5th India Public Policy Conference Network (IPPN): Policy Processes in the Global South - Water and Sanitation panel, Mumbai, India
• 10 December - [Webinar] RWSN Annual Partners Meeting RWSN • Activities & Services - Rural Water Supply Network
• 11 December - [Webinar] Professionalising Rural and Small-Town Water Supply Management: The Need to Enhance External Support Arrangements (WaterAid), 10:00 CET

 2025

January 2025

• 28-31 January - [Event] University of Pisa & UNESCO-WWAP: International Workshop on Water and Gender, Pisa, Italy

February 2025

• 17-20 February - [Event] 22nd AfWASA International Congress and Exhibition: ''Water and Sanitation for all: a Secure Future for Africa'', Kampala, Uganda
• 20-25 February - [Event] Water & Waste Expo 2025, New Delhi, India

March 2025

• 10-14 March - [Event] Amsterdam International Water Week, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• 16-20 March - [Event] 14th IWA International Conference on Water Reclamation and Reuse, Cape Town, South Africa
• 21-22 March - [Event] CEWAS: 9th Annual Research Symposium - Water for Prosperity and Peace, Ratmalana, Sri Lanka 

• 22 March - [Global Event] UN World Water Day

April 2025

• 28-30 April - [Event] IWA: 6th International Conference on Water Economics, Statistics and Finance and 10th Leading Edge Conference for Strategic Asset Management (LESAM) (IWA Cyprus 2025), Pafos, Cyprus

May 2025

• 19-23 May - [Event] IWA Resource Recovery Conference 2025: From Novel Concepts to Business, Leeuwarden, Fryslân, the Netherlands
• 20-22 May - [Event] Water Expo Nigeria - 7th International Water & Waste Water Exhibition, Lagos, Nigeria

June 2025

• 02-05 June - [Event] IWA: 11th Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering Conference - Managing Water Microbiomes (MEWE-11). Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• 03-05 June - [Event] IHE: Citizen Science 4 Water (CS4Water) Conference, Delft, the Netherlands
• 15-20 June - [Event] RIVM & others: 22nd Health-Related Water Microbiology Conference, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
• 23-26 June - [Event] 7th IWA International Conference on eco-Technologies for Wastewater Treatment, Stockholm, Sweden
• 25-27 June-  [Hybrid Event] IHE: 7th International Symposium on Knowledge and Capacity for the Water Sector - Empowering a New Generation, Delft, The Netherlands

September 2025

• 15-19 September - [Event] University Innsbruck & IWA/IAHR:13th Urban Drainage Modelling Conference (UDM), Innsbruck, Austria

November 2025

• 10-21 November - [Event] UN Climate Change Conference (COP-30), Belém, Pará, Brazil
• 19 November [Global Event] UN World Toilet Day

2026

• [tbd] 2026 - [Event] 2026 United Nations Water Conference to Accelerate the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all [UN General Assembly, 77th session, A/77/L.106, 28 Aug 2023]

2027

• [tbd] 2027 - [Event] World Water Council: 11th World Water Forum, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2028

• [tbd] 2028 - [Event] United Nations Conference on the Final Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Decade for Action, "Water for Sustainable Development", 2018–2028, Dushanbe, Tajikistan [UN General Assembly, 77th session, A/77/L.106, 28 Aug 2023]