WASH & the COVID-19 Pandemic Virtual Symposium

Ms Clarissa Brocklehurst

Panel Moderator

Clarissa Brocklehurst is a water supply and sanitation specialist who has been at the forefront of global WASH policy debates, focused on turning field experience and scientific evidence into actionable policy.  As a WASH expert and a leader in strategy, advocacy and policy debate, she brings a wealth of experience to the role of facilitator for the virtual symposium panel discussions. She has been Chief of WASH at UNICEF, was a founder of the Sanitation and Water for All partnership and currently chairs the advisory group for WHO/UNICEF’s JMP and UN Water’s GLAAS. She is an Affiliated Adjunct Faculty Member at the Water Institute at the University of North Carolina.

Mr Bruce Gordon

Bruce Gordon is the Coordinator of WASH at the World Health Organization. What a year the World Health Organisation has had helping us all to tackle the global COVID-19 pandemic! WHO has been at the forefront of advocating the link between handwashing and COVID-19, supporting with WASH technical guidelines for WASH practitioners, healthcare professionals, wastewater managers, and overall has published over 800 products covering a wide range of COVID-19 technical guidance.
Bruce has many years of experience leading WHO’s technical guidelines and global monitoring on WASH. He has an academic background in biochemistry and environmental management.

Ms Sarah Keener

Sarah Keener is the leader of the social inclusion team of the World Bank Water Global Practice. She has dedicated her water career to citizen engagement and social inclusion. She brings this wealth of expertise to the Online Symposium Panel on WASH and Inequalities.
Sarah has worked for over 25 years with the World Bank Group in the Middle East and North African Region, the Latin American and Caribbean Region, and the Africa Region, coordinating the citizen engagement agenda at the regional level and focusing on integrating social inclusion into World Bank operations. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Mr Perry Rivera

Perry is the Chief Operating Officer, New Business Operations at Manila Water Company, Inc. With over 25 years’ experience in Water Utilities with practical experience in Public-Private Partnerships, he also serves as an Independent Director of the Toilet Board Coalition (TBC).

Manila Water has worked hard for more than 20 years to deliver water and sanitation services to poor urban populations. Perry will join the panel to discuss what inequalities look like on the ground, how people are affected by them, how organisations such Manila Water are trying to overcome inequalities.

Ms Silvia Landa

Silvia Landa (a.k.a. CiCi) is the Project Manager of Yayasan Plan Indonesia’s ‘WASH and Beyond: Transforming Lives in Eastern Indonesia’ project, which is funded under DFAT’s Water for Women Fund, and which is also responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Silvia has a keen interest in supporting communities to be more resilient, particularly those most marginalised and vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change. This is particularly pertinent and challenging in the Eastern Indonesia context with the highest levels of poverty and COVID-19 caseloads in the country, and where there is increasing climate variability and natural hazards (e.g. the current flash flooding and cyclone impacts).