Jacinta Nekesa, Water and Sanitation Adviser for SNV Uganda, has been invited to speak at the prestigious World Water Week in Stockholm. In her presentation she will highlight the issues that effect sanitation promotion and recommend future initiatives. The World Water Week in Stockholm (August 17-23) is the leading global meeting place for capacity-building, partnership-building and follow-up on the implementation of international processes and programmes in water and development. This year’s Water Week theme is Progress and Prospects on Water: For a Clean and Healthy World with Special Focus on Sanitation.

On Thursday, 21 August Ms. Jacinta Nekesa will present her paper: 'Many Decades of Sanitation Promotion, but no Change – Where Have we Gone Wrong?' during the workshop: 'The lingering failure of sanitation - Why?'

Drawing from her experience as a Water and Sanitation Advisor in Uganda, Ms. Nekesa will explain how SNV uses a multi-stakeholder approach to strengthen coordination of the actors in the sanitation and hygiene sub-sector through organizing Learning Platforms.
These Learning Platforms enable stakeholders to dialogue on sanitation and share best approaches and practices, also ensuring that the Local Governments that have quite often been ignored are involved.

Already, SNV-facilitated initiatives in the area are starting to prove successful:

• The Ecological Sanitation initiative in Rwenzori, started in 2007, resulted in almost 6000 people gaining access to sanitation.

• The Learning Platform for Policy and Practice on Sanitation in West Nile, which also started last year, is expected to enable stakeholders to increase sanitation coverage and improve hygiene at household and school level.
  
  World Water Week, Stockholm