World Water Week in Stockholm is the annual focal point for the globe’s water issues. Experts, practitioners, decision-makers, business innovators and young professionals from a range of sectors and countries come to Stockholm to network, exchange ideas, foster new thinking and develop solutions to the most pressing water-related challenges of today.
The World Bank Group will convene and participate in several sessions of World Water Week 2018, taking place from August 26-31. Below are a list of World Bank Group (co)-convened sessions and sessions with World Bank Group participating speakers. You can also follow along via Twitter using #wwweek.
Please also find a list of World Bank Group participants.
Sunday 26 August | |
Can Valuing Water Change our Attitude towards Water? Concrete Examples! | 14.00-15.30 | Room: NL Auditorium |
2030 WRG: Multi-Stakeholder Approaches to Innovation and Impact | 14.00-15.30 | Room: FH Cabaret |
Hygiene Behaviour Change (HBC) - What Works and What Doesn’t? | 14.00-15.30 | Room: NL 461 |
It saves to spend: global flood defense investment strategy evaluation | 14.00-15.30 | Room: NL 253 |
Smart(er) systems for water and sanitation: subsidies, financing, and markets | 14.00-15.30 | Room: FH 300 |
16.00-17.30 | Room: NL 357 | |
Disruptive Innovation for the Water Sector: Imagining the Future | 17.00-17.45 | Room: NL 253 |
Monday 27 August | |
16.00-17.30 | Room: FH 202 | |
Water and security: assessing risks and mitigation options in hotspots | 16.00-17.30 | Room: NL Auditorium |
Mastering Disaster in the Anthropocene: Reconciling DRR and Climate Frameworks | 16.00-17.30 | Room: FH 307 |
Tuesday 28 August | |
09.00-10.30 | Room: FH 202 | |
MENA Focus- Building Resilience to Shocks and Protracted Crises | 11.00-12.30 | Room: FH 307 |
Sanitation in small towns: challenges for the environment and development | 11.00-12.30 | Room: FH Little Theatre |
City Water Resilience Framework & Resilient Water Governance | 16.00-16.30 WWWSOFA |
Faecal waste and its mysterious movement through urban ecosystems | 16.00-17.30 | Room: NL 461 |
16.00-17.30 | Room: FH 307 | |
Supporting transboundary cooperation: opportunities within the next GEF funding cycle | 17.00-17.45 | Room: NL 253 |
Wednesday 29 August | |
The global launch of the engineering design book “Faecal Sludge and Septage Treatment: A guide for low and middle-income countries” Join the special event hosted by the World Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Practical Action Publishing, fill an important FSM knowledge gap with the author Kevin Tayler, and win a signed version of the book from the author by answering a faecal sludge treatment question correctly. | 13.00-13:45 | Special Event at World Bank Booth (Booth |
Follow up on the High-Level Panel Water: Financing & Valuing | 14.00-15.30 | Room: NL Pillar Hall |
14.00-15.30 | Room: FH Congress Hall A | |
Innovative Financing Mechanisms for Water Scarcity in Agriculture | 16.00-17.30 | Room: FH 307 |
One billion left behind: Making global water efforts disability inclusive | 16.00-17.30 | Room: FH 300 |
16.00-17.30 | Room: NL Auditorium |
Thursday 30 August | |
11.00-12.30 | Room: NL Music Hall (456) | |
Political Drivers for Sustainable Ecosystems: UNDERSTANDING PEACE | 09.00-10.30 | Room: FH 307 |
Political Drivers for Sustainable Ecosystems: BUILDING PEACE | 11.00-12.30 | Room: FH 307 |
Political Drivers for Sustainable Ecosystems: SUSTAINING PEACE | 14.00-15.30 | Room: FH 307 |
Water Stewardship: Partnership and Financing Models for Scale | 14.00-15.30 | Room: NL Pillar Hall |
16.00-17.30 | Room: NL Pillar Hall |