Sri Lanka to host South Asian Conference on Sustainable Solution for Sanitation this week
The government of Sri Lanka is to host the South Asian Conference on Sustainable Solution for Sanitation from Thursday (21) till Saturday (23) at the Berjaya Hotel in Colombo. The is being organised by the Regional Centre for Sanitation established by Sri Lanka’s Ministry of City Planning Water Supply and Higher Education.
The conference will be held under the patronage of City Planning, Water Supply and Higher Education Minister of Sri Lanka Rauff Hakeem and State Minister Lucky Jayawardene.
The three-day conference aims at providing a platform to learn about scalable sanitation solutions and best practices from South Asian governments and water and sanitation experts and practioners from the region, a local media report stated.
According to reports, this conference is being viewed as the first step towards fostering knowledge-sharing linkages amongst practioners and governments in the region and act as a complementary process in translating the spirit of the South Asian Conference on Sanitation’s (SACOSAN) commitment into action.
Delegates across the region will share their knowledge and experience on four thematic areas including Improving Sector Governance through Policy and Programme Monitoring, Reporting and Accountability Instruments, Scalable Faucal Sludge and Septage Management Solutions, Environmentally Sustainable and Climate Resilient Sanitation Solutions and Building Blocks for Achieving Inclusive and Equitable Sanitation.
The 3S conference will be attended by regional governments, professionals and practices from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Pakistan and Maldives.
Media reports further state that the focus areas of the symposium include evidence-based policy changes and accountability instruments for SACOSAN countries to achieve safely-managed sanitation, promotion of a business model for viable FSM with the identification of the values chain and reduce resources mobilised for operationalising the model.
OSL take:
The holding of the South Asian Conference on Sustainable Solution for Sanitation in Sri Lanka indicates the level of importance given by the Sri Lankan government to sanitation as well as interest in improving and introducing the latest global trends in the area of sanitation. Therefore, foreign businesses/investors could take a cue from the conference and monitor the outcome of the summit in order to be on par with the latest requirements and solutions in the area of sanitation.
| Article Code : | VBS/AT/21022019/Z_2 |