Putting animals on the WASH agenda

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An increasing number of vulnerable people depend on animals for their survival, livelihoods, and dignity. We all share our water sources with other species. Yet WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) interventions often fail to consider animals’ roles, needs, and impacts on water. Join us for an insightful session at this year’s World Water Week on how WASH interventions can address shared risks and opportunities at the animal, human, and water interfaces.

Session goals

Raise Awareness

To bring visibility to animals as a critical component of WASH contexts

Learn and Share

To offer opportunities for participants to learn and share best practices that widen the scope of questions that can be addressed in WASH interventions

Network

To encourage cross-sectoral cooperation.

Integrated approaches to animals and WASH

The session will explore new ideas and practices across six thematic areas, showcasing initiatives that work across domains to build animals into the WASH equation.

SEI and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), facilitated a network on WASH and One Health in 2022-23, with participants from Burkina Faso, Kenya, and Mozambique. A scoping study focusing on links between WaSH and the prevention of zoonoses was carried out by network partners in Burkina Faso and Kenya. Interviews with WaSH and zoonoses experts revealed barriers, opportunities and research needs for WaSH to be seen as a key tool in zoonoses policies and programs, and conversely, for the prevention of zoonoses to be considered in WaSH policies and programs.

Learn more about the six thematic areas to be explored

Speakers

• Dr. Carolina Probst – Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development(BMZ)
• Sasha Koo-Oshima – Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations
• Helene Le Deunff – Stockholm International Water Institute
• Linus Dageskorg – SIANI at SEI
• Michel Dione – International Livestock Research Institute
• Janet C. Edmond – Conservation International
• Eric Stevens – US Food and Drug Administration
• Debbie Warboys – World Horse Welfare , The Working Animal Alliance
• Elissa Jobson – International Crisis Group
• Suzan Bishop – Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards
• Alejandro Jimenez – Stockholm International Water Institute

Moderator

Sarah Dickin – Uppsala University