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History - What led to the creation of RWSN?
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1981-1990 |
UN International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade (IDWSSD). Intensive development of public domain handpumps occurs. |
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1992 |
International Handpump Workshop in Kakamega (Kenya) mandates the formation of HTN, the “Handpump Technology Network”. Peter Wurzel (UNICEF Pakistan) is chosen to chair the new HTN steering committee (4 persons); Erich Baumann (SKAT, later Skat Foundation) establishes an executive secretariat for the new network. |
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1996 |
Chair of the HTN steering committee passes from Peter Wurzel to Rupert Talbot (UNICEF India), reflecting a continued network focus on Asia. |
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1997 |
HTN Workshop in Mangochi, Malawi. Over 150 participants from 40 countries endorse the need for (and activities of) the network. HTN envisages a broader remit and revises the name to HTN “Network for Cost effective Technologies in Water Supply”. The steering committee is expanded to 16 members. Click here for proceedings. |
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2000 |
HTN Forum in Hyderabad, India (200 delegates, 38 countries). Retaining a global membership, members endorse the new African focus. |
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2001 |
In a Rope Pump promotion drive, HTN and SDC jointly organise the First International Rope Pump Policy Workshop in Managua, Nicaragua (66 delegates, 22 countries). |
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2001 |
A new vision for the network is drafted – activities would be broadened to encompass more rural water issues while maintaining traditional network activities. The first regional chapter of HTN is established by a dedicated group of members in South Africa. |
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2003 |
HTN Forum in Durban, South Africa (250 delegates, 37 countries) endorsed the relevance of the network and the new, broader thematic vision and identity including three flagship activities. At the Forum, a new name is also mooted (RWSN – Rural Water Supply Network) and an action plan 2003 - 2005 is drafted. Click here for proceedings. |
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2004 |
The network is officially renamed RWSN. Theme coordinators employed for the three flagship activities. The Steering Committee unanimously re-confirms Skat Foundation as the global secretariat for at least three more years |
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2005 |
The theme coordinator workshop held in February in Kampala, Uganda defines the strategies for the three flagship activities and the working budgets. |
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2006 |
RWSN Forum Accra, Ghana (290 delegates, 37 countries), with the theme: “Scaling up Local Entrepreneurship in Rural Water Supply”. Thematic foci were endorsed. Click here for procedings. |
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2008 |
RWSN steering committee chair passes to Clarissa Brocklehurst (UNICEF-PD, New York) |
