WEDC conference - Incontinence Needs in Low and Middle Income Countries + Mental health
Sarah
Dear colleagues,
(apologies for any cross-posting)
If yourself or your colleagues are planning to attend the WEDC conference 24-28 July 2017, we’d like to invite you to join two events on two important but overlooked issues:
A - Incontinence
There will be a side event on the Tuesday 25th July at 5-6.30pm on Understanding Incontinence Needs in Low and Middle Income Countries which is being organised by Leeds University and Cranfield University and with contributions from the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (RCOG), the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Norwegian Church Aid and independent humanitarian and development health and WASH professionals: Natalie Giorgi-Alberti and Sarah House.
This event aims to raise awareness of incontinence needs in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), including in development and humanitarian contexts, describing the current knowledge base, gaps in practice and exploring future action and research needs in this long-overlooked area.
The event is intended for anyone from the WASH or associated sectors (health, disability, protection or other) from research, policy or practice backgrounds, with an interest in progressing the rights and dignity of all, within humanitarian and development contexts in LMICs.
Please see the attached flyer and the website link for this event: http://impress-network.com/event/wedc-conference-incontinence-side-event/
If you are not attending other days of the conference and only want to attend this side-event, it is possible to attend this session on its own for a reduced fee of £60.
B - People with mental health conditions in CLTS [Community Led Total Sanitation] processes
Sue Cavill will be presenting a paper during the conference (date and time not yet known) on Understanding, respecting and including people with mental health conditions as part of the CLTS process (by Sue Cavill, Patrick England, Sarah House and Suzanne Ferron), based on learning that was undertaken during the Equality and Non-Discrimination (EQND) study recently completed across the 13 Global Sanitation Fund (GSF) supported countries supported by the Water and Sanitation Collaborative Council (report to be published mid 2017).
We feel this is also a very important but overlooked issue which has relevance to sanitation programmes generally as well as CLTS and hope that this paper will also start to spark interest by a range of sector actors in learning more on this area.
If yourself or your colleagues will be participating in the conference please do encourage them to join us. We hope to see you there.
Best wishes,
Sarah
Sarah House
Independent Consultant
Transitional, development & humanitarian contexts
Sanitation, hygiene, water & public health engineering
Gender, vulnerable groups, inclusion, violence, menstrual hygiene & incontinence
Strategy & capacity development
Collaboration & partnerships
Leicester, UK
Landline: +44-116-251 4493
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