Welcome to the Climate Resilient Inclusive WASH Hub and Community of Practice. As the WASH sector increasingly grapples with the challenges of climate change, it is important to be able to share lessons, learn and reflect with others on how to address them, and to ensure that we leave no one behind.

Climate Resilient Inclusive WASH: the Bhakta definition

Based on collaborative work and research done by Dr. Amita Bhakta, Paula Morcillo de Amuedo (C40 Cities) and Dr. Mark Fletcher (Arup) as part of a new publication, Enhancing inclusion in climate resilient urban sanitation services (2026), the Bhakta definition of ‘climate resilient inclusive WASH’ is:

“Water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services that can adapt to climate stresses and survive climate shocks whilst continuing to serve everyone, embedding principles of inclusion as a default rather than an exception, and as a foundation rather than an afterthought, for the delivery of WASH infrastructure, policies, governance and financial mechanisms designed for all.”

What the hub is about

The Climate Resilient Inclusive WASH Hub and Community of Practice aims to:

• Provide a space for collective learning and sharing of ‘on the ground’ lessons on climate resilience and inclusion in the WASH sector from across all settings
• Create an environment for discussion and peer exchange on emerging understandings from practitioners on what is actually working
• Showcase emerging methodologies, nature-based solutions, ecosystem-based approaches, indigenous knowledge, and technological innovations that strengthen climate resilience and social inclusion

This hub is intended to act as a space for all in the WASH sector to share their reflections. Contributions to the hub are open, and can be in the form of:

• Blogs of around 800 words about lessons being learned on climate resilience and inclusion in the field, on anything relating to methodologies, solutions, successes and failures, and any programme or research activities
• Comments on blogs
• Posts in the discussion forum to ask and reply to queries by logging in here
• Resources to be added to the library, ranging from presentations, field and practitioner notes, through to academic papers, books and more!

Sign up to login and contribute to the forum, and contact Dr. Amita Bhakta to submit a blog or resources for the hub.