Asia Pacific WASH Technical Meeting 2018

The IFRC Asia Pacific Regional Office (APRO) organized a technical meeting on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion (WASH) in Kuala Lumpur on 1-2 November 2018, bringing together over 32 WASH, health and programme colleagues from National Societies, the ICRC and the IFRC across Asia and Europe. The two-day meeting was conducted in the peaceful surroundings of The Saujana Hotel Kuala Lumpur.

The objective of this meeting is to enable WASH representatives from selected National Societies, IFRC Country Offices (CO), Country Cluster Support Teams (CCST), Asia Pacific Regional Office (APRO) and partner National Societies working in the region to update themselves on technical issues, approaches, plans and lessons learned in their respective sectors.

The meeting was conducted in a highly participatory manner that drew on the strong motivation of participants to exchange experiences and learn from each other. Issues and challenges faced in the region and in National Societies were highlighted and considered for planning ahead. Presentations from facilitators and participants were balanced with practical group exercises, and active discussions to inform and inspire activities and plans for Asia Pacific WASH programming in 2019-2020 in emergency, recovery and development.

The agenda of the meeting had a specific theme for each of the two days:

• First day: Where we stand ?

• Second day: How to maintain, improve and expand our emergency, recovery and developmental WASH programming?

This website aims at sharing presentations, materials and summary outcome of each session discussed in the meeting.

The report of the meeting is available here.

All photos are available here.