IDS Seminar, Thursday 22 March, 13.00-14.30, IDS Convening Space

Some for all? Politics and pathways in water and sanitation 

Taking place on World Water Day, this seminar will launch the new IDS Bulletin, ‘Some for All?’ Politics and pathways in water and sanitation.

Discussion will examine why progress towards providing safe water and improved sanitation since the original New Delhi Statement in 1990 has been so slow.  Do targets that fail to take account of equity, social justice sustainability and local governance issues have limited global progress?  And how can a post MDG framework provide the impetus for a new approach to water and sanitation?

Panellists:

Peregrine Swann (Former Senior Water Adviser, DFID), Jeremy Allouche, Lyla Mehta and Alan Nicol (STEPS members and IDS Fellows), Katharina Welle ( PhD candidate SPRU), Philippe Cullet (Professor, Law, Environment and Development Centre, SOAS)