4000 children die every day from diarrhoea caused by unclean water and poor sanitation.

New for 2009: Join the Call, Toilets for All

End Water Poverty launches new campaign for 2009

Water, sanitation and hygiene education are key
building blocks for development. Yet the
international effort on water and sanitation is in
disarray...

In 2009 End Water Poverty is taking its next steps in the campaign to ensure sanitation and water for all. Through campaigning and lobbying we are making sure leaders understand that access to sanitation and water are key building blocks of development, providing the basis for life, dignity and prosperity.  

What are we campaigning for?
End Water Poverty is calling on governments to support a Global Framework for Action to ensure sanitation and water for all. This framework would provide an agreement in which:

• Governments in developing countries create credible national plans to provide sanitation and water for all, and invest more in their implementation.
• Governments in donor countries support the development of these plans, and ensure that no credible national plan fails for lack of finance
• International systems are developed to monitor and drive progress in the sector, including specifically a global task force, an annual review and an annual global high-level meeting.

Read a briefing on the Global Framework for Action (opens in new window).

How can your organisation or group support the campaign?
To mobilize support for the Global Framework, we are calling on members to promote 5 key international campaign activities in 2009/10, with 4 critical dates to note. These activities will culminate in the biggest event of the campaign calendar- The World's Longest Toilet Queue.

5 key actions to take in 2009/10:

• Throughout 2009/10: Promote the End Water Poverty petition 
  Mobilise mass support for the national and international calls with petitions aimed at your government. 
  

• 22nd March: Go Italian for World Water Day Encourage positive Italian leadership of the G8 by sending a delegation to meet the Italian Ambassador, or organizing an event with them. Countries with no Italian Embassy could do the same for Embassies of other G8 countries.
  
• June/July: Give your leader a send-off before the G8 and AU Summits 
  If your leader is attending the G8 or African Union Summits at the start of July, make sure they become sanitation champions with their fellow leaders. 

  
  Campaigners queue outside the Japanese Embassy in
  London befor the G8 Summit, July 2008.

  
  
• 19 November: Stand up for sanitation on World Toilet Day Highlight the critical role that toilets play in providing life and dignity to people all over the world.
  
• 22 March 2010: Join the World's Longest Toilet Queue  Join campaigners around the world by queuing to tell politicians that 2.5 billion people can't wait any longer for a safe toilet. Organise a queue and tell politicians attending the first ever High-Level Meeting on Water and Sanitation that they must act now.

We will also be contacting high-profile figures to act as Goodwill Ambassadors for the campaign. Please get in touch if you are able to support this effort. 

Briefings on individual events and resources you can use are also available at the bottom of the page.

Download the 2009/10 campaign guide (opens in new window, PDF, 596k).

What can you do as an individual?

You can support the campaign by contacting your local political representative or Member of Parliament, and we very much encourage people everywhere to organise events for 'The World's Longest Toilet Queue'.

Please also contact our member organisations who are active in your country to support their activities. 
See a list of members.

You can also follow the campaign on twitter, join the facebook group and blog, write and shout about End Water Poverty wherever and whenever!

Resources to help you campaign

EWP campaign graphics

Download campaign graphics and posters from our image gallery.

Campaign guides
Download the full 2009/10 campaign guide (opens in new window).
Download a guide for activities around World Water Day (opens in new window).
Download some ideas for send-off events before the G8 and AU summits (opens in new window).
Read some campaign ideas for World Toilet Day.
Read a guide to The World's Longest Toilet Queue (opens in new window).
Download a guide to promoting the petition (opens in new window).

Briefings
Download a briefing on the Global Framework for Action (opens in new window).
Download a WaterAid and Tearfund report: 'Why we need a Global Framework for Action' (opens in new window).
Download the End Water Poverty manifesto for the High Level Meeting on Sanitation and Water ( Adobe Acrobat Document 59KB, opens in new window)

Campaign materials
Download a sample petition sheet (opens in new window).
Download a landscape poster (opens in new window).
Download a portrait poster (opens in new window).

Please contact info@endwaterpoverty.org if you would like access to the images to use in your own materials. 

Social networking
Join and promote our facebook group (opens in new window).
Follow us on twitter (opens in new window).
Follow and comment on our blog (opens in new window).