Our Wednesday briefing, from 10:00 to 11:00 in room M.19, is on the 300in6 Yearbook and state-of-the-art review on progress worldwide in scaling up access to safe water, through household and community water treatment and safe storage.

This hands-on session will include practitioners and support agencies in HCWTS. It will introduce a concept which we have developed in response to the expressed needs of our peers in the HCWTS communities. There is, it is widely said, a need for a standard-setting, product- and process-neutral observatory and reporting mechanism which will raise the visibiity of our sector and help to set higher common standards.

Much of the session will sollicit advice from potential contributors and users on the scope of data to be featured, and on how to ensure the Yearbook’s representativity of the overall sector.

The Yearbook is one of the inputs of 300in6 to the international network on HWTS, which is co-managed by UNICEF and WHO.