Sanitation is one of the most off-track Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with the WHO and UNICEF reporting that 3.8 billion people still lacking access to safely managed sanitation.

In many low- and middle-income countries, centralised and capital-intensive sanitation and waste management systems are largely restricted to mega-cities. Rapidly urbanising areas in towns and growing cities are disconnected from networked sewage systems making urban sanitation a compelling global challenge.

To shed more light on this, the  ‘Towards Brown Gold’ research initiative  set out to understand the potential for the reuse of faecal waste in rapidly urbanising areas and unpack how marginalised communities experience sanitation. This event will launch our forthcoming policy brief ‘Towards Brown Gold? The challenges and opportunities of reuse in realising universal sanitation in rapidly urbanising areas’ and share findings and recommendations from the project.

The panel includes key stakeholders from practitioners, donors, academics, and the Towards Brown Gold team, who will share their reflections on the policy brief and share insights from their work. There will then be time you to engage with the panellists through an audience Q&A.

When

• 19 September 2024
• 11:30 - 13:00 UK time

Speakers

• Mariam Zaqout , Research Fellow, University College London (UCL)
• Sam Drabble , Head of Evaluation, Research and Learning, Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP)
• Paul Deverill , Senior WASH Adviser, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
• Andrés Hueso González , Senior Policy Analyst – Sanitation, WaterAid
• Lyla Mehta , Professorial Fellow, IDS and Visiting Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Chair

• Alan Nicol , Strategic Program Director – Water, Growth and Inclusion, International Water Management Institute (IWMI) – Chair