Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC)
The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) is a global, multi-stakeholder membership and partnership organization that works with poor people, organizations, governments and local entrepreneurs to improve sanitation and hygiene at scale.
Our Vision is “A world in which everyone, everywhere is able to practice safe sanitation and hygiene with dignity.”
Our Mission is “To enable all people and especially women, girls and those living in vulnerable situations to practice the
right to sanitation and hygiene across the course of their lives with dignity and safety.”
Founded in 1990, WSSCC’s work contributes to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 6, target 2, with far-reaching impacts on related SDG targets for health, education, women’s empowerment, reducing inequality, improved urban spaces and climate change mitigation.
KM on Sanitation Programming
KM on Sanitation Programming
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
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
World Water Day 2019 – Leaving no one behind UN-Water World Water Day, on 22 March every year, is about focusing attention on the importance of water. This year’s theme, ‘Leaving no one behind’, adapts the central promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that as sustainable devel … Read more
Happy World Toilet Day 2018! UN-Water The world is not on track to reach Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6): to ensure availability and sustainable management of sanitation and water for all by 2030. Today, 4.5 billion live without a safe toilet and 892 million people still practise open defecat … Read more
World Toilet Day 2018: When nature calls UN-Water The world is not on track to reach Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: to ensure availability and sustainable management of sanitation and water for all by 2030. Today, 4.5 billion people live without safely managed sanitation and 2.1 billion peopl … Read more
