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The first-ever WSSCC Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene took place from 9 to 14 October 2011 in Mumbai, India.  WSSCC brought together almost 500 sanitation and hygiene professionals and WSSCC members, as well as… More »

Below please find a selection of videos from this week, courtesy of social media partner Arghyam, photographer Ayush Das, WSSCC, and others. More videos to be added in the coming days.

Chair, ladies and gentlemen, colleagues and friends, That great moral beacon of our times, Nelson Mandela, invites us to judge the importance of an issue not by how glamorous or attractive it is but by… More »

SEI leads innovative sanitation project in India Five hundred international experts gather this week at the Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene in Mumbai, India. An international research initiative led by Stockholm Environment Institute will respond… More »

Shahrukh Khan, one of the world’s most popular and much-loved Bollywood personalities, is making the fight for the right to safe sanitation and good hygiene his own.  The announcement was made last night at the… More »

Mumbai/Geneva, 4 October 2011: A generation after man walked on the moon, a billion people on earth still defecate in the open and another billion use unsafe holes in the ground. Now sanitation is becoming… More »

In less than three weeks, hundreds of sanitation and hygiene professionals will gather for the Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene (www.wsscc-global-forum.org). The timing could not be more critical: 2.6 billion people still do not… More »

A conference is only as good as its sessions and speakers, and the Global Forum has not assembled the usual suspects – because sanitation and hygiene work itself is not done in a silo. Instead,… More »

Interactive, workshop-style sessions at the Global Forum will give  practitioners hands-on knowledge and tools that they can use on some of today’s  most promising sanitation and hygiene approaches. One unique opportunity for  training involves the… More »

On 10 October, the Global Forum will see the launch of a “Global Community of Practice for Sanitation and Hygiene.” WSSCC is launching the initiative in response to sector demand for collaborative learning in sanitation… More »

The  Global Forum’s WASH Fair will be a central meeting point and unique sharing  environment for attendees at the Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene that  promote inter-regional and inter-sector exchange. The WASH Fair includes … More »

After successful football-based WASH United campaigns in Africa, WASH United, WaterAid, WSSCC and other sector partners are now translating WASH United’s sport- and fun-based approach to sanitation and hygiene promotion to South Asia’s number one… More »

The Global Forum will be the site for the launch of a number of new products and reports that will be useful to practitioners in particular and the sanitation and hygiene sectors at large. Some… More »

WSSCC’s partners for the Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene have played a key role in developing the Forum’s approach and sessions, and in supporting the participation of many practitioners from around the world. The… More »

The Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene is purposely meant to be practitioner- and action oriented. To that end, 90% of the participants are expected to come from the places where the 2.6 billion people… More »

The Global Forum’s urban and rural field visits are more than extra-curricular jaunts outside the conference venue.  They’ll give a real flavour of the life lived by the people who whose livelihoods we are all… More »

2011 and 2012 are big years on the international development conference agenda. So just where does the Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene fit in? For one, it provides a global platform for sharing knowledge… More »

WSSCC has made the Global Forum as accessible and economical as possible by crafting a registration fee which, unlike other conferences, includes all accommodation and food costs for the week, transport to and from the… More »