Established to address water challenges in sub-Saharan Africa, ICWA has, for its first ten years, the goal of mobilizing, motivating and moving stakeholders to explore the Prime Place of Water Towards the Successful Delivery of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Africa. The ICWA is held annually within the week that World Water Day falls into and has emerged as the flagship event of the annual World Water Day (March 22) activities of OWHN Africa.

The Water Testing Workshop, supported by International Water and Health Alliances (IWHA) is designed to equip participants with both knowledge and skills to train communities on deploying evidence-based Microbiology and water-testing kits as educational tools that demonstrate best practices for identifying safe drinking water.

Writing is a critical tool for sustainable development, and the focus of the Writing Workshop @ICWA cohorts, organised in collaboration with the Michigan State University’s Global Alliances in Literacy and Engagement (GALE), is on developing capacity in academic and grant writing amongst early career researchers and people in sub-Saharan Africa working and supporting them in their efforts to research and publish around water and health