RWSN Events (August to November 2012) and Post-MDG Update
Kerstin Danert
Greetings!
With this email we would just like to inform you of the planned RWSN events that you can participate in soon. We also request you to get involved in the consultation process for the post-MDG Goals, Targets and Indicators for Drinking Water. This is a very important topic and getting it right needs inputs from people with hands-on experience!
For those of you who are new to RWSN on D-Groups (more than 500 people joined over the last month) we also provide some hints about how to get the best out of D-Groups in terms of how often you receive emails and ideas for participating in an e-discussion without getting overwhelmed by emails.
Management and Support
This theme considers sustainable service provision in rural areas and small towns under different service delivery models. The Working Group brings together individuals and organisations with an interest in learning and sharing on this topic. Between now and November we intend to kick-off the working group, with as much involvement of RWSN members as possible. If you are interested in the management and support topic we encourage you to join on: http://next.dgroups.org/RWSN/managementsupport/ Please also spread the work and inform others.
a- During the Stockholm Water Week 2012, on Wednesday 29 August, from 9.00 – 12.30 in room K13, we are organising a meeting to kick-off the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) Working Group on “Management and support of rural water supplies”. As part of this meeting, recent results and experiences from IRC’s Triple-S project will be shared on topics related to “management and support”, with a focus on post-construction support and monitoring. All registered participants of the Stockholm Water Week are welcome to participate. For more information, please visit: http://www.rural-water-supply.net/en/events/details/14 or contact Julia Boulenouar (J.boul...@aguaconsult.co.uk). If you are planning to come to the Stockholm Water Week, it would be great if you could participate in this meeting.
b- Save the date: October 2nd and 3rd hosted by IRC, The Hague, The Netherlands. This meeting will include a 1.5 day thematic workshop, focused on piped water supply schemes in rural areas and small towns. It will consider the different management and support mechanisms required to manage these schemes and ensure that they provide sustainable services. This will be followed by a half day management meeting of the Working Group. For more information and registration, please see http://www.rural-water-supply.net/en/events/details/15 or contact Julia Boulenouar (J.boul...@aguaconsult.co.uk) or Marieke Adank (ad...@irc.nl).
Cost-Effective Borehole Drilling
As many as 2.9 billion people drink water that comes from a borehole, or drilled water well. And yet there are major gaps with respect to supervision, drilling capacity and
regulation. Is this a topic of interest for you? We want to hear your experiences and ideas! RWSN will host a three-week
E-Discussion on the realities of cost-effective borehole drilling from the
10th to 26th September 2012. It will cover technical, institutional and financial aspects.
Please join: http://next.dgroups.org/RWSN/groundwater
or contact sean....@skat.ch. We are looking for a very wide participation from the private sector, local governments, national governments, NGOs and funding
organizations so please let people know about this.
Accelerating Self Supply
Following on from the Self Supply webinar (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnwtVzrdWPY&feature=youtu.be),
the Accelerating Self Supply theme will host an E-discussion from the 5th to 24th November. The e-discussion will enable all those who participate to share their experiences as well as challenges of encouraging householders themselves to improve their water
supplies. If you are interested to join and participate please join
http://next.dgroups.org/RWSN/selfsupply/ or contact André Olschewski.
Water Point Mapping
With a membership of over 230 people, there is very lively discussion in the Water Point Mapping
group. People are sharing their experiences from Swaziland, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Liberia, Kenya, Brazil and Zambia. The discussion is not just about mapping technology, but also on costs as well as the
challenges of updating information and embedding it into national monitoring systems. If you want to participate, or learn from this discussion, please join
http://next.dgroups.org/rwsn/mapping/discussions
Post-MDG working group on water
After 2015, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will be replaced by something new. The world will more likely have a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) framework. This
framework needs to contain water in a useful and ambitious way. What kind of goals will we end up with? Water for all? Water for some?
The Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) has initiated a consultative process to develop targets and indicators to propose to the UN General Assembly in September 2013. We want to make sure that these optimally reflect the state of the art in monitoring. They should reflect development and human rights communities. They should take on the lessons learned from the global monitoring experience during the MDG period. A consultative document had been prepared to explains the background to this process. It provides a long list of potential targets and indicators – as well as formulations to be considered for the goal itself. It is important that RWSN members contribute to this process.
· You can find the consultative document http://www.rural-water-supply.net/en/resources/details/378
· Feedback is invited via the discussion forum on the JMP platform http://www.wssinfo.org/post-2015-monitoring/overview/
· You are also welcome to post comments on the RWSN LinkedIn group (http://tinyurl.com/postMDGWASH-1) where we have started a discussion.
· For more details on the on-going process, please also check out http://watermonitoring2015.org/
Receiving emails from RWSN and the sub-communities
We have a policy of trying not to clog up your emails, and so we only send occasional announcements and the RWSN newsletter out through the mail RWSN mailing list. If you join
a particular community, such as equity and inclusion, or water point mapping, there are times when there are quiet times, and others where there is quite a lot of discussion. In order to set the frequency for mails from a particular group, please follow these
steps:
1) Log into your account at
http://next.dgroups.org/rwsn/mapping
2) In the top right corner of the welcome page, click the 'My account' tab and then choose the 'Preferences' option
3) The preference for 'Email frequency' is set to 'Immediate'. Select your alternative preference from the drop-down list (Daily; Weekly; etc)
4) Click the 'Save' button at the bottom of the box
We look forward to hearing from you. And please, if you have suggestions about how RWSN could support better networking please just drop us a line at the secretariat.
Warm wishes,
Kerstin
Dr. Kerstin Danert
Director RWSN Secretariat
RWSN - Rural Water Supply Network
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