{"id":243395,"date":"2022-11-18T14:29:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T12:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/mahlobo-participates-in-world-toilet-summit\/"},"modified":"2022-11-18T14:29:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T12:29:05","slug":"mahlobo-participates-in-world-toilet-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mahlobo-participates-in-world-toilet-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahlobo participates in World Toilet Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Water and Sanitation Deputy Minister, David Mahlobo, is currently participating in the World Toilet Summit, underway in Abuja, Nigeria.<\/p>\n

The summit brings together policymakers, non-profit organisations, academics, and other sector leaders to address the sanitation crisis that is affecting a large majority of people in the world.<\/p>\n

The summit aims to, among other things, improve collaboration among stakeholders around driving accelerated access to sustainable sanitation services, mobilise investment to the sanitation sub-sector, and create an enabling environment for sanitation service delivery through private sector participation.<\/p>\n

The two-day summit, which will take place from 18 – 19 November 2022, is hosted by the Organised Private Sector in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (OPS-WASH) in collaboration with the World Toilet Organisation and the Federal Ministry of Water Resources in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

Held under the theme \u201cSanitation Innovations for Economic Development\u201d, the summit also seeks to provide a platform to share, learn and interact with diverse stakeholders on different sanitation subthemes, and to afford an opportunity to exhibit sanitation products and services.<\/p>\n

The Department of Water and Sanitation said the summit is a unique global platform in which stakeholders come together and devise means to address sanitation challenges and find solutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis summit is a token of continuing efforts towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6) which states that by 2030, countries must have achieved access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all, and primarily end open defaecation,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

Solutions to sanitation challenges<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, speaking at a World Toilet Day Dialogue in Mulderdrift, Johannesburg, on Friday, the department\u2019s Deputy Director-General for Water Services, Risimati Mathye, emphasised the need for partnerships with the private sector to come up with solutions to sanitation challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe message that the provision of alternative sanitation is a big mandate of the department and that through partnerships with various other sector partners we can achieve the goal of 2030,\u201d Mathye said.<\/p>\n

During the dialogue, stakeholders discussed how to rethink the sanitation service delivery in the building and construction industry. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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