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WaterAid's vision is a world where everyone everywhere has safe water, sanitation and hygiene.

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Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

9 Dec 2025 · Global Gateway and Water

Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Nov 2025 · Water Resilience Strategy

Meeting with Lukas Mandl (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

28 Oct 2025 · Water resilience in development cooperation

Meeting with Cecilia Strada (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

4 Sept 2025 · Exchange on gender inequalities in health, in particular in the field of access to clean water, decent toilets, and good hygiene for women and girls

Meeting with Lucia Yar (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

17 Jul 2025 · Gender inequalities in health

Meeting with Heléne Fritzon (Member of the European Parliament)

15 Jul 2025 · Jämställdhet och hälsa

Meeting with Jonas Sjöstedt (Member of the European Parliament)

13 May 2025 · Water

Meeting with Pernille Weiss-Ehler (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall)

16 Apr 2025 · Water Resilience Strategy

Meeting with Barry Andrews (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair)

7 Apr 2025 · Development

Meeting with Grégory Allione (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

12 Feb 2025 · Réunion WaterAid

Meeting with Pär Holmgren (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion)

11 Feb 2025 · Water resilience

Meeting with Esther Herranz García (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion)

11 Feb 2025 · Water Resilience Strategy

Meeting with Ingeborg Ter Laak (Member of the European Parliament)

6 Nov 2024 · Water, Afrika

Meeting with Pernille Weiss-Ehler (Member of the European Parliament)

22 Nov 2023 · Water

Response to EU strategic Framework for Global Health

2 Sept 2022

Please find below a list of publications to support WaterAid contribution to the consultation on the upcoming EU global health strategy: WHA resolution, Water, sanitation and hygiene in health care facilities, 2019 https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA72/A72_R7-en.pdf Global progress report on water, sanitation and hygiene in health care facilities: fundamentals first, WHO, 2020: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240017542 Water, sanitation and hygiene: a foundation of strong resilient health systems, WaterAid, 2022: https://washmatters.wateraid.org/publications/water-sanitation-and-hygiene-a-foundation-of-strong-resilient-health-systems Three reasons governments and donors must invest in water, sanitation and hygiene in healthcare facilities, blog article, WaterAid, May 2022: https://washmatters.wateraid.org/blog/three-reasons-governments-and-donors-must-invest-in-water-sanitation-hygiene-healthcare-facilities Invest in WASH and infection prevention and control to beat antimicrobial resistance, blog article, WaterAid, 2020: https://washmatters.wateraid.org/blog/harnessing-covid-19-to-safeguard-future-health-invest-wash-infection-prevention-control
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Meeting with Suvi Leinonen (Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen) and WWF European Policy Programme and

5 May 2022 · Africa, climate and energy

Meeting with Renaud Savignat (Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen) and Save the Children Europe and

29 Mar 2022 · Global Health

Meeting with Lora Borissova (Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen), Renaud Savignat (Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen) and

8 Oct 2021 · Africa-EU partnership

Response to Delegated act framing the programming of the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI)

31 May 2021

WaterAid is an INGO working to make clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone, everywhere within a generation. We work in 28 countries to change the lives of the poorest and most marginalised people. We are astounded to note (in the annex to the EC delegated regulation) that water, sanitation and hygiene are not prioritised in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Those regions are among the most affected by climate change and it is well-known that climate change has profoundly impacted the world’s water cycle: around 74% of natural disasters between 2001 and 2018 were water-related. Among the 25 countries ranking first in the climate vulnerability index, 19 are located in Sub-Saharan Africa. Among those, there are 9 countries where less than 60% of the population has access to at least a basic water service. Climate change impacts are equally worrying in several South-Asia countries (see examples from India, Nepal and Bangladesh in the longer document enclosed). Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are also regions where access to WASH services is particularly low. In Sub-Saharan Africa, in 2017, only 27% of the population has access to safely managed water services, in Bangladesh and in Nepal, for instance, only respectively 45% and 34% of people living in urban areas have access to safely managed water services. The fact water and sanitation are overlooked in least-developed countries only confirms the findings of a research we commissioned in November last year, looking at EU WASH ODA. However, we hoped that the EU would use the opportunity of the new MFF and programming period to set things right. This study found out that EU WASH ODA was not targeted to the poorest countries and not sustainable (see detailed data enclosed). The EU has committed to a horizontal spending target of 20% for human development. To achieve human development goals and address inequalities, there is a clear added value of working across sectors. Without water, sanitation and hygiene, healthcare is not safe, dignified or resilient to pandemics like COVID-19, and public health is undermined. Yet, in Least-Developed Countries, 1 in 2 health care facilities does not have basic drinking water, 1 in 4 health care facilities has no hand hygiene facilities at points of care; and 3 in 5 lack basic sanitation services. When children drink dirty water and get severe diarrhoea or intestinal worms, they cannot absorb the nutrients they need to grow properly. A quarter of all stunting is attributed to five or more episodes of diarrhoea before the age of two and estimates suggest that poor sanitation is the second leading risk factor for stunting worldwide. It is therefore critical that EU health and nutrition programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia comprise WASH components and enable investments in WASH systems strengthening. WaterAid calls on the EU to scale-up its investments in water, sanitation and hygiene in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, targeting in particular least-developed countries and to amend accordingly the annex to the EC delegated regulation.
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Meeting with Jutta Urpilainen (Commissioner) and OXFAM INTERNATIONAL EU ADVOCACY OFFICE and

25 May 2021 · Roundtable on Human Development

Meeting with Renaud Savignat (Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen) and Save the Children Europe and

11 Sept 2020 · EU Global Health Strategy

Meeting with Renaud Savignat (Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen)

26 Aug 2020 · Discussion on WASH

Meeting with Diana Montero Melis (Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen) and Save the Children Europe and

2 Apr 2020 · nutrition in partner countries

Meeting with Nils Behrndt (Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica)

26 Jan 2017 · Role of water under the SDGs and in the EU's development cooperation