Practical integration of climate resilience into WASH strategies and plans (English, Spanish and Portuguese)

SWA together with GWP, UNICEF and WaterAid co-convened a webinar series to strengthen partners’ knowledge of and capacity to integrate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and climate policies, plans, action, and financing. The second webinar of this series focused on "Practical integration of climate resilience into WASH strategies and plans" 

The impact of climate change is already very clear, and though the future is uncertain, the fact that the world must take bold action to counteract the effects of climate change, and build more resilient systems, is undeniable. And this is also true for WASH. 

This webinar informed SWA partners about practical ways to integrate climate resilience into WASH policies, strategies, and plans. It outlined the objectives of climate-resilient WASH; the importance of WASH climate risk assessments to identify the right adaptation and mitigation priorities; and how a results framework for climate-resilient WASH can look like, including concrete examples from countries already working on this topic.

Key Thematic Areas 

• Objectives of climate-resilient WASH programming
• Development of climate risk assessments applied to WASH. Existing tools and processes for climate risk identification.
• Generic result frameworks for WASH climate-resilient development. From enabling environment to technologies: climate resilient WASH solutions to address identified risks. Specialntioning to rural and urban climate resilience.
• Country experiences with:
  •  Integration of climate resilience into WASH policies, strategies, and plans
  • Implementation of climate-proofing WASH infrastructure, services, and behaviors
• Implementation of WASH programmes to build community resilience.

Watch the video in Portuguese