How can water and wastewater utilities in Africa help meet the SDGs?

Learning objectives

Following this webinar, participants will be able to: 

• Identify barriers and opportunities related to the implementation of the SDGs targets at the utility level.
• Identify various actions and interventions that can be applied by water and sanitation water utilities to promote the implementation of the SDGs.
• Use lessons learned from experience-shared discussion during the webinar in their work.
• To be able to anticipate challenges to be expected in strategic planning and implementation of SDG goals, based on lessons learned from others.
• Understand the role that utilities have in addressing numerous SDGs. 

Webinar Resources

• Download the webinar presentation here
• Download the Q&A report here
• Join the IWA Specialist group ‘Sustainability in the Water Sector’ – Join now!

IWA Blogs

• Urgent solutions needed to meet SDGs, Xia Huang
• No time for complacency in reaching SDGs, Hamanth Kasan
• Integrated water regulation for SDG 6 – the Malaysian experience, Loga Veeraiah
• How far are we from reaching SDG 6? A target-by-target analysis, Benedetta Sala

Reports

• Agenda 2063 – The Africa we want; African Union Commission (2015)
• Sustainable development in the European Union – Monitoring report on progress towards the SDGs in an EU context (2021)
• State and Trends in Adaptation Report 2021: Africa
• Introduction about the SDGs
• The National Drinking Water Supply and Irrigation Program 2020-2027 (PNAEPI)

IWA Publishing book

• Sustainable Industrial Water Use: Perspectives, Incentives, and Tools – Edited by Cheryl Davis; Eric Rosenblum, DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/9781789060676

Webpages

• Learn more about the African Water Association here
• Visit the official knowledge management and sharing site of the African Water Association