Improving water security for the poor
Water Security and Poverty Conference – 2023
Event date - September 20, 2023
On 20-22 September, the REACH international conference convened leaders from government, industry, academia, finance, and civil society to define the water security agenda to 2030 and beyond. Sessions explored how the latest science is shaping policy and practice to address key challenges on climate services, sustainable finance and water quality at local and regional scales.
Water Security for Climate Resilience: How research can support action for COP26 and beyond
Event date - October 26, 2021
Convening leading researchers from the UK, Africa and Asia to discuss 6 years of research on water security and climate resilience.
OWN Seminar: Towards Safe Drinking Water for All
Event date - October 29, 2020
The complexities of poverty means innovation alone cannot ensure safe water, sanitation and hygiene for all. In this talk Prof. Ray argues that public health researchers (including herself) have had too simplistic an understanding of poverty.
UNC Water & Health Online Conference: Advancing Rural Water Services: Strengthening Systems for Professionalized Maintenance and Fit-for-Purpose Water Quality Monitoring
Event date - October 29, 2020
This joint session will share learnings from two initiatives seeking to understand and strengthen systems that underpin both maintenance and water quality monitoring in low-income rural areas.
Webinaire | Accessibilité économique: les populations rurales peuvent-elles payer pour de l’eau en temps de crise ?
Event date - June 23, 2020
Ce webinaire, organisé par REACH et UNICEF et hébergé par RWSN, discutera des problématiques d'accessibilité économique en milieux ruraux durant la pandémie COVID-19.
Webinar | Affordability: can rural people pay for water in a crisis?
Event date - June 9, 2020
Making drinking water affordable for rural people has always been challenging. COVID19 places urgent pressures on government, service providers and rural water users with priority needs for water for handwashing at home, in schools and at healthcare facilities. This webinar will examine field data of changes in water demand and revenue, and explore how to improve policy and practice responses.
Climate change and water: There is no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable engineering.
Event date - February 12, 2020
Drawing on work across Africa and Asia, this talk will explore the emerging challenge to sustaining and advancing progress through engineering and management to reduce the diarrhoeal disease burden in a changing climate.
Shaping narratives around climate change and development | A photo-conversation
Event date - January 22, 2020
Join us on 22 January for an informal conversation around water security and climate change in Ethiopia, and representations of climate change and development. We will question how our communications are shaping – helpfully or unhelpfully - global narratives, and how we can give more of a voice to those who are impacted most.
Panel: Landscape as a way of understanding socio-ecological changes in the African Anthropocene ?
Event date - December 6, 2019
This panel, organised by the REAL project, will outline some of the impacts of landscape histories and policies on landscape conservation and sustainable development.
Climate Change and Poverty: Immersive photo-sound exhibition and panel
Event date - November 5, 2019
This event, funded through an ESRC grant, consists in an immersive photography and sound exhibition about climate change, water security and poverty in rural Ethiopia, and will be followed by a panel discussion with academic and practitioner experts.
Webinaire | La justice de l’eau: reconnaître les différences de besoins et de pratiques
Event date - April 30, 2019
Le webinaire portera sur les inégalités persistantes au sein des groupes sociaux, et sur la manière dont les interventions et les politiques publiques relatives à l’eau devraient être élaborées pour contribuer à remédier à ces discriminations.
Webinar | Water Justice: recognising different needs and practices
Event date - April 30, 2019
This webinar will explore existing inequalities within social groups and how water-related interventions and policies should be developed to address those.
REACH International Conference on Water Security and Poverty
Event date - March 27, 2019
On 27-29 March 2019 the REACH programme will host an International Conference on Water Security and Poverty in Oxford, UK.
Webinar: Climate research uptake into policy and practice: Exploring challenges and opportunities with scientists and practitioners
Event date - November 29, 2018
This webinar attempts to shed light on the challenges and opportunities for producing and disseminating climate data that is relevant for practitioners and policy makers in East-Africa.
Webinar: Addressing land vulnerability and water insecurity in fragile environments: Perspectives from Ethiopia and Kenya
Event date - November 20, 2018
This seminar aims to explore the complex relationships between poverty dynamics, land vulnerability and water security in fragile environments in Ethiopia and Kenya.
