2016 World Water Week programme

Thursday | 1 September | 11:00-12:30
Scaling-up WASH action in companies’ supply chains: Promoting sustainable
growth
Convenors: UNGC CEO Water Mandate, WaterAid and WBCSD
Room: NL Pillar Hall/Pelarsalen
The workplace is a critical, but often neglected, ‘institutional’ setting for WASH, yet to meet the ambition of the SDGs action is needed
in corporate supply chains. Get insights from latest research, understand the major hurdles to action and contribute to the development of
new tools to overcome these barriers.
11:00 Welcome
Cecilia Chatterjee-Martinsen,
WaterAid
11:05 Presentation of findings from
collaborative action research
project
CEO Water Mandate, WaterAid
and WBCSD
11:20 Panel discussion on challenges
to action in corporate supply
chains and potential solutions
Speakers from private sector,
certification bodies and
industry-level associations
11:50 Facilitated group discussion:
Mapping challenges and
opportunities for action on
WASH in supply chains;
identifying support and
guidance needed
12:10 Facilitated panel discussion:
Private sector members of
Addressing Barriers to Action
in Corporate Supply Chains
advisory group as speakers
12:25 Conclusions, next steps, ways
to get involved
12:30 Close of event
Photo: WaterAid
Systematic behavior change to ensure usage of WASH infrastructure
Convenors: Eawag, HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Swiss
Water Partnership and WHO
This session familiarizes interested stakeholders with a comprehensive approach to systematic behavior change through a detailed introduction,
a poster market presenting previous and ongoing projects, experience reports by practitioners that have applied the approach, and
extensive plenary discussions of the approach.
Room: FH 202
11:00 The introduction presents the
systematic behavior change
approach and its four stages
(illustrated by case studies)
11:30 A poster market depicts
various projects that applied
the systematic behavior
change approach
12:00 Experience reports in applying
the approach in WASH
projects by practitioners from
the convening organizations
allow participants to evaluate
its applicability to their own
organization, followed by a
multi- and transdisciplinary
discussion
12:30 Close of event
Photo: Andreas Steiner
110 2016 World Water Week: Water for sustainable growth