The Congress is therefore explicitly solutions focused, rather than diagnosing the challenges and problems in the sector, which are already well documented.
21/11/2011 - 24/11/2011 Ámbito: Asia
Lugar de celebración: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The Congress is therefore explicitly solutions focused, rather than diagnosing the challenges and problems in the sector, which are already well documented.
The overarching goal of IWA’s Development Congress series is to identify, showcase and debate practical experiences and examples of service provision in developing countries that ‘work’, and critically, ‘work at large scale’. The Congress is therefore explicitly solutions focused, rather than diagnosing the challenges and problems in the sector, which are already well documented.
Urban water supply service provision
Urban sanitation and wastewater service provision
Managing, planning and financing urban water and sanitation services
Social dimensions
Within this framework, the themes and topics of the Congress are relevant to the arena in which most progress in terms of coverage and implementation solutions must be made: urban service provision in low and middle income countries.
Two themes (Urban water supply service provision; Urban sanitation and wastewater service provision) deal directly with the technical and technological dimensions of service provision, including options, systems and their performance and innovations).
As sector professionals, we understand that infrastructural considerations alone are insufficient for success and must be part of an integrated package, including non-technical components, if we are to achieve sustainable outcomes and returns on infrastructure investments. Accordingly, the third theme of the Congress (Managing, planning and financing urban water and sanitation services) addresses the ways in which services are managed; the institutional, financial and regulatory conditions that are necessary for success, or the opportunities for service provision through the use of non-traditional partnerships.
A unifying thread running through the Congress series is how users of services are considered, consulted and participate in the planning, management and operation of those services - hence the emphasis of the fourth theme (Social dimensions).
Urban water supply service provision
Alternative and innovative water supply technology options
Decentralised and small water systems
Innovation in access to water services
24/7 water supply in intermittent supply environment
Demand management, water conservation measures, upstream catchment management
Asset management
Urban sanitation and wastewater service provision
Alternative technology options and technology mix
Decentralized wastewater management systems
Faecal sludge management, biosolids, waste as a resource
Innovation in access to improved sanitation services
Environmental sanitation and hygiene
Managing, planning and financing urban water and sanitation services
Governance, regulation, norms, standards
Optimising public and private roles in service provision
Urban service supply chains and links to small scale independent providers
Institutional development and institutional capacity building
Operation and maintenance practices and approaches in developing countries
Pricing, fi nancing (capital works) and fi nancing options (utility, sector)
Use and application of planning frameworks
Risk assessment and preparedness in response to climate change variability
Assessing human resource capacity shortages
Innovation in education and training approaches of sector professionals
Monitoring and data for the MDGs
Operator partnership approaches
Social dimensions
Consumer concerns, customer management, awareness and information
Participatory processes and methodologies
Behaviour change at community level
Community engagement and management models
