About World Toilet Forum
   Forum 2005, Shanghai
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Bangkok will host the second World Toilet Forum. With the theme, Happy Toilet, Healthy Life, the event will facilitate Thailand towards the progressive development and standardisation of public toilet service. It will promote awareness and participation from all sectors to help develop international standard public toilets and effective toilet management in the country.

In line with the development strategy of the Thai Ministry of Public Health, the Forum provides delegates with valuable insights into a comprehensive range of topics pertaining to the public toilets.

The two-day event is structured along the three tracks of health, accessibility and safety, and a special highlight on eco-sanitation. An international panel of speakers, complemented by Thai experts providing local perspectives, will helm meaningful discussions on the toilet solutions and challenges.

Some 25 papers, including keynote addresses on global initiatives to reduce the proportion of people without sustainable access to basic sanitation will be presented.

The Forum will provide stimulating educational and unique networking opportunities with academia, commercial organisations, as well as a 450-strong Thai delegation and groups from other countries. Please click here link for listing.

Healthy Thailand

‘Healthy Thailand’ is a campaign by the Thai government to focus the country on the principle of ‘building’ rather than ‘repairing’ health. Taking a lead is the Thai Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) which has officially announced the Development Strategy for the Thai Public Toilets. In line with this strategy, the MOPH and the National Health Association of Thailand will partner World Toilet Organization in staging the second World Toilet Expo & Forum in Bangkok in 2006.

United Nations Millennium Goal on Sanitation

One of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is to ensure environmental sustainability. The target is to halve, by 2015, the proportion of the people without sustainable access to basic sanitation. According to the MDG Report 2005, half the developing world still lacks toilets or other forms of basic sanitation. Get an update on global efforts and the UN-Secretary Generals Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation’s recommendation on achieving the sanitation related goals by keynote speakers Richard Pollard and Dr. Uschi Eid.