The OECD actively participated in the World Water Week on the theme “Water for society – Including all” through a series of events and by taking part in a number of workshops and seminars throughout the week:

Main OECD events

Sunday 25 August 

• Session: Collective Action to the Last Mile/Kilometer (11h-12h30 | Room M6)
  Good water governance depends on stakeholders coming together to promote transparency and accountability—key for the implementation of SDGs. This session highlighted the enhanced impacts of collaboration and focused on how to develop and scale collective action approaches, ensuring that all voices are included and no one is left behind.
  
  

• Session: Transforming the financial sector to deliver a water-secure world (14h-15h30 | Room L11)
  This session offered experts from the corporate, investment, policy, activist and other sectors the opportunity to discuss how water security can be prioritised in financial decision making, how financial regulation can work in support of our goals, and what our individual roles can be in accelerating this change.

Monday 26 August 

• Session: The right blend: Tailoring finance vehicles for context-specific success (14h-15h30 | Room L8)
  This session sought to inform participants about the various types of financial instruments currently being harnessed to unlock capital for water and sanitation: their basic features and impact to date, with a special focus on why particular instruments were chosen for a specific purpose and country context. The OECD report Making Blended Finance Work for Water and Sanitation: Unlocking Commercial Finance for SDG 6 was released at this session and set the scene. 

Tuesday 27 August 

• OECD report recommendations: Pharmaceutical Residues in Freshwater: Hazards and Policy Responses (11h-11h30 | Exhibition Hall)
  This report helps to close the science-policy loop. It provides policy guidance to cost-effectively reduce pharmaceuticals in freshwater, and their associated risks to human and environmental health.
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Wednesday 28 August 

• Session: ASIA Focus: Inclusive financing for water (11h-12h30 | Room M6)
  This session included highlights from OECD analysis to promote blended finance for water-related investments.
  
  
• Event: Mobilising financial resources for transboundary water resources management and cooperation (14h-15h30 | Room L10)
  This event discussed the challenges and opportunities for financing transboundary basin development, also considering how the private sector and large funding institutions can be closer involved in the process.

Other OECD speaking events

Sunday 25 August

• Session: WWW 2019 Debate: Water for society – Including all?  (11h-12h30 | Room M4)

• Session: Quality Unknown- The World's Invisible Water Quality Crisis (14h-15h30 | Room M4)

Tuesday 27 August 

• Showcase: She Decides? (17h-17h45 | Room M1)

Thursday 29 August 

• Session: Connecting impact investor goals with evidence for sustainable water management (11h-12h30 | Room M5)
• Showcase: Water Security for all: Asian Water Development Outlook 2020 (12h-12h45 | Room M1)
• Showcase: Towards a working market for green infrastructure (17h-17h45 | Room L9)