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DFID's Continuing Professional Development Day on Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health: 30 April 2008

Room 3W11, DFID, 1 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HE

The objectives for the day were to:

• agree how Policy and Research Division can work better together on water, sanitation, hygiene and health.
• agree how sectors can work better at country level
• identify key research areas

The day will commence with discussion on the linkages between water, sanitation, health and hygiene. This will be followed by in-country experiences of the sectors working well together. In the afternoon, there will be discussion of future research areas, to conclude in discussions of how to bring forward the objectives.

09.30 - 10.00 Arrival and coffee

10.00 - 10.15 Welcome and introduction
Sarah Ladbury, Facilitator

10.15 - 10.30 Making the case for cross-sector working
Stewart Tyson, Head of Profession for Health
Ian Curtis, Head of Profession for Environment

10.30 – 11.10 Linkages between sanitation, hygiene, water and health
Sandy Cairncross, Professor of Environmental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Impact of Salvador sewerage project on intestinal parasites in pre-school children, 1997 - 2004

11.10 – 11.30 Morning coffee

Experience of joint working in-country:

11. 30 - 12.00 1. DFID Sierra Leone
Morag Baird, Service Delivery Adviser, ex DFID Sierra Leone
Joanne Reid, Senior Health Adviser, DFID Sierra Leone
Health and WATSAN in Sierra Leone: The Shared Challenge

12.00 - 12.30 2. WaterAid
Oliver Cumming and Lydia Zigomo, WaterAid
Prevention: As important as cure

12.30 - 1.00 Lessons from social marketing
Opening remarks by Jo Lines, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Peregrine Swann, Water and Sanitation Team, DFID

1. 00 – 1.45 Lunch

1.45 - 2.00 Research issues: current DFID programmes
Peter O’Neill, Special Adviser, Central Research Department  
Water & Sanitation Research for Development

2.00 - 2.20 Future research possibilities
Rhona MacDonald, Senior Editor, The Lancet

2.20 - 2.40 Plenary discussion on research

2.40 - 2.50 Summary of main conclusions and issues arising in the day so far

2.50 - 4.00 Breakout group discussions (and refreshments)

4.00 - 4.30 Feedback and Conclusions
Sarah Ladbury, Facilitator

Five questions to be discussed during the CPD Day

• What are the main things that the sectors can learn from each other?
• What are the three joint pieces of work that DFID could take forward? At least one in country and one in policy division.
• What common work on externalities could we pursue?
• What makes a sector-wide approach work?
• Give examples of where research has had a major development impact within your sector. What are the future research questions (short term, long term?)