FOCUS ON AFRICA
Achieving Water Security and Sanitation Goals
Africa hosted three major water and sanitation events over the past two months. The theme of the biggest event, Africa Water Week (AWW), was on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals on water security and sanitation. IRC and partners introduced Watershed – empowering citizens at AWW and we were also present at the two other events: the Kampala WASH Symposium and the WEDC conference in Ghana.  And if that was not enough, IRC helped launch the WASH Agenda for Change (WA4C) in Uganda.

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Cor Dietvorst, dietvorst@irccwash.org, @dietvorst

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