Thank you to everyone who made the 7th RWSN Forum such a great success. It could only happen with the financial support of the event sponsors (listed on the pages below) and the 440+ participants from 65 countries. Also a huge thanks to tireless teamwork of the:
- The Prime Minister, Minister for Economic Infrastructure and Government of Cote d’Ivoire Steering Committee and Local Task Force
- Core Organising Team (Dr Kerstin “Mariam” Danert, Sean Furey, Matthias Saladin, Martin Laeng, Violeta Zivanovic and Juerg Christen of Skat Consulting & Skat Foundation), Victor “The Boss” Bas-Martinez (AfDB/Spain ICEX); Meleesa Naughton (The World Bank); Léo Giordano (Independent)
- Forum International Task Force (Jochen Rudolph, AfDB; Jose Gesti-Canuto, UNICEF; Erik Harvey & Louisa Gosling, WaterAid; Miguel Vargas-Ramirez, Lilian Pena Pereira Weiss, Susanna Smets, The World Bank; Stef Smits, IRC)
- The Forum Security Task Force (Papa Ndour, AfDB; Idrissa Mbaye, UNDSS; Etienne Lawson, Radisson Blu; Franziska Heizmann, Independent; Steen Frederiksen, WaterAid)
- The Communications Task Force (Maimouna Tall, Aditi Chandak, WaterAid; David Akana, AfDB; Suzanne Gbaguidi, UNICEF; Magdaline Nkando, Yosa Yuliarsa, the World Bank)
- All the staff at the Radisson Blu Abidjan Airport: Marlyne Kansé and her team, plus Masterclays (Exhibition Area and poster boards) and Advision (Sound & Vision)
- Event Management & entertainment, Renée Kalif Nouama, Claude Ekra, Fatime Touré of Office Pro, and all the ushers, dancers, musicians, bus drivers and other staff that helped make everyone feel welcome.
- The fantastic translation team coordinated by Joseph Rurangwa (AfDB)
- The 50+ peer reviewers and 200+ authors who made submissions
- Master of Ceremony Madame Mariam Coulibaly
- Session Managers (Matthias Saladin, Louisa Gosling, Jane Wilbur, Stef Smits, Susanna Smets, Ellen Greggio, Marieke Adank, Joseph Pearce, Nick Dickinson, Jose Gesti-Canuto, Meleesa Naughton, Rob Hope, Susanna Goodall, Julian Harbrecht, Sylvain Adokpo, Miguel Vargas-Ramirez, Lilian Pena Pereira Weiss, John Butterworth) and all the session Chairs and Rapporteurs
- The people of Soumie village who welcomed the field trip, organised by Basile Djedjro (UNICEF) and Jonas Kobenan (ONEP)
- Olivier Mills (CAWST) for the RWSN Forum programme app
- Katherine Purvis (The Guardian) and Lola Hierro (El Pais)
- The Sponsored Seminar funders and organisers
- African Development Bank
- African Groundwater Network, BGR, BGS
- Concern Worldwide
- Oxford University/UNICEF
- RWSN, WaterAid, WASH United, Institute of Sustainable Futures, End Water Poverty, UNICEF
- The World Bank Group
- UPGro: Unlocking the Potential of Groundwater for the Poor; Water Mission, National Groundwater Association (NGWA/NGWREF)
- USAID
- WHO-UNICEF JMP
- WIN, Caritas, Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation
- All the Exhibitors
- Ajay Industrial Corporation Ltd.
- Akvo
- Aquatabs / Aquatabs Flo
- Eawag
- Entreprise Génie Mécanique et Hydraulique pour le Développement Rural (GMHDR)
- Excellent Development
- Fondation Antenna
- GWE pumpenboese GmbH
- Helen Keller International/CHANGE Project
- INCLAM
- IRC WASH
- Le Projet PHAM
- ONEP
- SMART Centre Group (MetaMeta, Aqua for All, Skat)
- Swelia
- UPGro: Unlocking the Potential of Groundwater for the Poor
- World Vision / Design Outreach
- Gold Sponsor: UNICEF
- Gold Sponsor: WaterAid
- Gold Sponsor: AfDB
- Gold Sponsor: World Bank Group
- Gold Sponsor: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC / Swiss Water & Sanitation ConsortiumKeyReserved
and many, many more – thank you all, and apologies if you have been left off this list – please tell us.