International Labour Office (ILO)
The ILO promotes the inclusive governance of water supply and sanitation at the community level, with a focus on indigenous communities and women, through employment-intensive investment projects and capacity building for community water supply projects.
Much of this work is done in alliance with other UN agencies. In addition, we promote social dialogue in the water sector, in order to provide voice to water workers in the management of water supply. This work has impacted countries as diverse as Angola, Ecuador, Ghana, Haiti, Indonesia, Malawi, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Yemen and Zambia.
At the political level, the ILO promotes the integration of actions to promote SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth) and SDG 6, through events such as World Water Day/World Toilet Day 2016 and several practical publications which highlight subjects such as open defecation, water fetching and access to WASH in the workplace.
Women for Water at CSW61
WfWP conducted multiple sessions/ side and parallel events over the years during the commission on the status of women meetings annually to connect water, women, gender and vocational training together with IUCN, ILO, countries like Hungary, Netherlands and Brazil.
World Toilet Day 2019: ‘Leaving no one behind’ UN-Water Today, 4.2 billion people live without safely managed sanitation, 673 million still practise open defecation and three billion lack basic handwashing facilities.[1] This sanitation crisis means untreated human waste is spreading diseases into w … Read more
World Water Week in Stockholm 2019 UN-Water The 2019 edition of World Water Week takes place on 25-30 August in Stockholm, Sweden. During the week, UN-Water will convene various activities, sessions and events. UN-Water events and sessions Leaving No One Behind, the UN World Water Development Report … Read more
High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 2019 UN-Water The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development will be held 9 – 18 July 2019, and convened under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council. During this time, many water and sanitation events will be held. Thursday 1 … Read more
Using SDG data to support science, technology and innovation: the SDG 6 example UN-Water From 14-15 May 2019, the 4th annual Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum), is hosted at the UN Headquarters in New York. During the Forum, … Read more
Commemoration of World Water Day and launch of UN World Water Development Report UN-Water Commemorating World Water Day, a pivot event will be hosted on 19 March 2019 at the Palais des Nations, home of the United Nations Office at Geneva. During the event, the United Nations World Water Development … Read more
