Climate Change Working Group

Objective 1: Coordination : Provide a platform to identify key needs and facilitate discussions on humanitarian WASH and climate change related issues, with GWC members and well as national cluster or sector coordinators and information managers. 

Objective 2: Capacity Strengthening : Strengthen the sector’s capacity related to climate change and humanitarian WASH response and coordination.

Objective 3: Knowledge management and dissemination :  Share guidance, tools, evidence and best practices related to climate change and humanitarian WASH programming and coordination. 

Objective 4: Advocacy and Resource mobilization: Enhance the uptake of climate change as a thematic component of humanitarian WASH, advocating for its inclusion and integration in sector strategies and guidance and Identify advocacy needs.

Global commitments

• COP27

• IASC - Climate crisis

• The Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organizations

To know more about climate change in WASH humanitarian coordination, watch the panel discussion below. This event was organized by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the German Toilet Organization (GTO), as lead and co-lead, respectively, of the GWC Climate Change Working Group on 09 May 2024, as part of the sessions featured during the Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks 2024:

Find the GWC Working Group on Climate Change contact list here.

As per its mandate, the GWC works in partnership with all WASH members to find solutions to issues arising in a response. Any GWC member can be part of the CC WG but should commit to participation on a yearly basis. Special guests can be part of the CC WG if they can demonstrate added value.

• ToR
• Climate Change and WASH Toolbox for Humanitarian Practitioners on Thursday, September 19th 2024.

Webinars: Climate Resilient and Inclusive WASH

Reports

• UNICEF Climate Resilient WASH
• WASH and Climate Change: Making water, sanitation and hygiene services adaptive, safe and resilient - UNICEF
• Water scarcity: Addressing the growing lack of available water to meet children`s needs
• Solar-powered water systems: Solar power can vastly improve the reach and quality of water services
• World Disasters Report 2020: Tackling the humanitarian impacts of the climate crisis together
• Strengthening Risk Analysis for Humanitarian Planning: Integrated disaster and climate risk in the Humanitarian Programme Cycle

Tools and guidance

• NEAT +
• The Climate Charter
• Humanitarian Carbon Calculator
• ECHO - Compendium of good practices for a greener humanitarian response

For more information or to request support, please write to Antonio Torres ([email protected]) or Thorsten Reckerzügl ([email protected]) or [email protected].