Second East Asia Ministerial Conference on Sanitation and Hygiene (EASAN-2)
Summary
The Second East Asia Ministerial Conference on Sanitation and Hygiene (EASAN-2) was held in Manila, Philippines from 27 to 29 January 2010. The conference was attended by more than 160 participants, including high-level delegates from 13 East Asian countries. Donors, nongovernmental organizations, members of the media, private sector professionals and other resource people also attended.Under the theme "building regional cooperation to accelerate progress towards sustainable sanitation", EASAN-2 took place at a critical time - just over two years after EASAN-1, allowing stock to be taken of the progress of in-country initiatives with barely five years remaining until the MDG target date of 2015, and amid mounting concern that, if current trends continued, the regional MDG target for sanitation would be missed by six percentage points.