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Rio+20 summit briefing
Find out about Rio+20, also known as the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), and how FAN is involved.
FAN Member Lajana Manandhar reports on the SWA meeting in Washington DC
On 20 April 2012, hundreds of delegates from all over the world are gathering in Washington DC to take part in the ‘Sanitation and Water for All – high level meeting’.
FAN members attending Sanitation and Water for All High Level Meeting in Washington
FAN members are taking to the global stage at the high level meeting in Washington. Yakub Hussain, FAN South Asia, and Rudy Amega-Etego, ANEW, who represent southern civil society on the Sanitation and Water for All steering committee, will attend the Sanitation and Water for All High Level Meeting in Washington. Lajana Manandhar, FANSA Nepal, will also attend.
International Environmental Art Contest ‘One Small Change’
To commemorate the ‘World Environment Day 2012’ on 5 June, the Environment Action Association is hosting their 11th annual International Art Contest - One Small Change.
Video message to world leaders: make it happen!
Over 370,000 people walked for water on this year's World Water Day to demand action on the water and sanitation crisis. Watch a new End Water Poverty campaign video celebrating this fantastic action and calling on world leaders to attend the High Level Meeting.
A resource of doable solutions
Dr Suman Shakya, Executive Director at Environment and Public Health Organization (ENPHO), Nepal, shares how participating in the 6th World Water Forum was was useful to him as a platform for networking with organizations at the global level in the context of water scarcity and sustainable access.
Raising FANSA and the GTF program's visibility at the global level
At the FAN Global side event at the 6th World Water Forum, Venkatesh Aralikatty, FANSA's GTF Regional Coordinator, presented FANSA's GTF work on Rights based approaches for Equitable and sustainable development.
Space for CSOs at the 6th World Water Forum very superficial
Eklavya Prasad, a campaigner with Megh Pani Abhiyan (Cloud Water Campaign) and a member of Freshwater Action Network South Asia, felt that the space that has been provided to civil society in the 6th World Water Forum seems to be superficial, primarily because of the kind of symbols that the corporations were promoting.
Hilda presents the CSOs commitments in the World Water Forum
Hilda Grace, a member representative from FANSA and the Butterfly Effect NGO coalition, presented civil society commitments at 6th World Water Forum 16 March 2012. Read her speech and watch a video of her presenting
FANSA Pakistan members wins Tamgha-i-Imtiaz award
At a ceremony in Governor House Punjab in Lahore on 23 March, 2012, Mr Malik Nazir Ahmad Wattoo, the Founder and President of the NGO Anjuman Samaji Behbood, Faisalabad, received the