The 2nd Stakeholders Meeting of the 9th World Water Forum was held on 14 and 15 October 2021 at the Abdou Diouf International Conference Center (CICAD) in Diamniadio under the chairmanship of Mr. Serigne Mbaye Thiam, Minister of Water and Sanitation. Co-organized by the Executive Secretariat of the Forum, the World Water Council and the City of Dakar, the meeting aimed to (i)
deliberate on the proposals of the working groups, (ii) provide significant political input for the development of the final program of the Forum, (iii) provide an update on the “Dakar 2022 initiative”, and (iv) share logistical information on the Forum.
The meeting was attended by 890 stakeholders from 40 countries, 430 of whom attended face-to-face and 460 participated virtually. Actors involved in the formulation of the thematic content took part in the meeting, including members of the International Steering Committee of the Forum, members of the working groups, and strategic partners. Also participating in the meeting were
representatives of different groups of actors in the global water community, politicians, civil society, youth, women, academics and researchers, the private sector, etc.
The program of the meeting included the opening ceremony, the thematic sessions, the high-level panel, the informative parallel sessions, the closing session, as well as the meetings of the political segments organized in the margins of the work.
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Word Water forum – Dakar 2022 – Report of the second stakeholders meeting
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11 to 14 January 2022 – 2nde International Conference in UNESCO HQ in Paris
Water, megacities and global change
Background
UNESCO’s Division of Water Sciences and ARCEAU-Idf (Association of the Water professionals, Researchers, decision Makers and Elected officials from Paris metropolitan Area) are co-orgnizing the Second International Conference on Water, Magecities and global change (EauMega), in collaboration with the Greater Paris Metropolis and the Greater Paris Sanitation Authority (SIAAP) on 11-14 January 2022, in hybird format, online and at UNESCO HQ in Paris
EXPECTED OUTCOMES
– To produce a scientific and technical overview of water management in Megacities in order to identify and update the most important issues
– To strengthen the dialogue between science and policy actors at local level
– To activate the cooperation platform of the Megacities Alliance for Water and Climate (MAWAC) by concretizing the exchange of their expertise in the specific field of water and climate
– To review the Strategic Global Framework of MAWAC, pre- pared by the Working Group of UNESCO Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP)EXPECTED OUTPUTS
– Declaration of the Mayors and Governors in support of the Megacities Alliance for Water and Climate
– Publication of the 15 best papers in a high-level open- access international scientific journal
– UNESCO electronic publication of the Proceedings of the conference in open-access
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19 November – World Toilet Day!
Theme of this year
Who cares about toilets?
World Toilet Day celebrates toilets and raises awareness of the 3.6 billion people living without access to safely managed sanitation. Every year, UN-Water – the United Nation’s coordination mechanism on water and sanitation – sets the theme for 19 November, the day of the celebration. In 2021, the theme is ‘valuing toilets’.
On the dedicated World Toilet Day website you can find out more about the issues, the campaign and download materials to participate.
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Seminars on water governance
Cycle of 3 seminars “International dialogue of local knowledge on water governance: management strategies in basins under increasing stress due to global changes”.
October 18 (15:00 to 17:30 – France), November 8 and 29 (14:00 to 16:30 – France). From 10:00 to 12:30 (Argentina) for the 3 seminars
Available on the Zoom. With simultaneous translation in Spanish, English and French
This cycle of seminars aims at sharing experiences in water governance in a situation of increasing tension on resources. It will include presentations of cases in Argentina, Chile, South Africa, Morocco, Spain and France and will involve academic speakers and resource managers.
Beyond the sharing of experiences, we wish to build new governance approaches more adapted to the new climate contexts.
Open to all and accessible free of charge with registration.
https://en.unesco-montpellier.org/workshops-1
Free registration but MANDATORY
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeycwLSV5V4o_8r81N8JRTA8mEyQcCS3-zegJ8JHzW9G3vg2A/viewform
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INDONESIA – Reward for best performing water utilities
Mr. Dwike Riantara was registered for International Executive Training for Managing Director – Asia training session held in Colombo in November 2018
At this time, he was Head of performance Improvement Bureau at the Indonesia Water Supply Association (PERPAMSI)
His certificate obtained after this Managing Director training session gave him a way where he is now!
Welldone Dwike and congratulations!
https://jambi.antaranews.com/berita/466497/wali-kota-jambi-terima-tiga-penghargaan-top-pembina-bumd
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GHANA – KICK-OFF OF THE EXCUTIVE TRAINING SESSION AT KNUST IN KUMASI
Since this morning, the OpT managers of the English-speaking session of the International Executive Master “Water for All” – OpT have started their training at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi.
The first course is taught by Professor Viviane Osei and is on “The Culture of Human Resource Management” in Ghana
The OpT managers were joined by two managers from Harare Water in Zimbabwe who came to deepen their knowledge of water and sanitation through this short course.
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Mega drinking water project in Bita – Angola
Banque Mondiale (The World Bank ) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) have just signed a $500 million financing agreement with the Angolan authorities in Bita.
The financial institutions are thus supporting the implementation of the Bita drinking water project which will benefit 7.5 million people in Luanda and its surroundings.
The project to supply drinking water to Luanda from Bita has received new funding. This involves US$500 million granted by the World Bank and the French Development Agency (AFD). The financing agreement was signed recently in Luanda by the Angolan Minister of Finance, Vera Daves, the World Bank regional director for Angola, Jean Christoph Carret, and the director of the French Development Agency (AFD) in Angola, Souchet Louis-Antoine.
In all, Angola has secured US$1.867 trillion in funding, including some for budget support, the Power Sector Improvement and Access Project and the Girls’ Empowerment and Learning for All Project (Patt II). The Luanda drinking water project thus registers its second financing after that of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), a pan-African multilateral trade finance institution created in 1993 under the auspices of the African Development Bank (ADB).
Large-scale infrastructures…
The Luanda drinking water supply project via Bita, which has received 500 million dollars in financing from the World Bank and AFD, will require a total investment of 900 million dollars. The project will be implemented by a consortium made up of the French group Suez, Mota Engil, a Portuguese construction company and Soares da Costa, a civil construction company based in Porto, Portugal. -
South-South Cooperation between latin America and Africa
Webinar July 16,2021 at 4pm GMT and 1pm Brasilia
On the road to the 9th World Water Forum – Dakar 2022
Signature of the South-South Cooperation between Latin America and Africa on the THEME OF WATER
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The Next Path for Water – IWA
3 options next to disrupt Water sector – IWA
Prof David Sedlak of University of California, Berkeley has identified 3 themes which will disrupt the #water sector in the next years:
? #DigitalWater
? Cheaper #desalination technologies
♻️ #CircularEconomy of WaterLearn more with this blog based on David’s keynote speech at the Digital #WorldWaterCongress
http://ow.ly/ucWy50Fitj3In response, water managers turned to the soft path. Over the past 40 years, many of the world’s largest cities have met the needs of expanding populations without building more infrastructure. This has happened through actions like incentives on the purchase of water-efficient appliances. Utilities and governments have even made some progress in educating consumers about the need to use water more wisely and other forms of demand management.
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HCWW – End of the training for managers in customer and commercial management
Engineer Mamdouh Raslan, President of the Holding Company for Drinking Water and Sanitation, stressed the importance of transferring technical and administrative skills and modern technologies in the areas of customer service, commercial sector development and digital transformation, and of using French organisations with extensive experience in these areas to prepare qualified and trained executives to support the sector and advance its subsidiaries.
He indicated that the Holding Company, in cooperation with AFD, AgroParisTech and SUEZ, organised a 5-day training for a number of executives from the Holding Company and its subsidiaries, to develop working mechanisms in the financial, commercial and customer service sectors, facilitating, simplifying and making flexible the procurement procedures, and establishing controls to ensure the accounting of actual readings, in order to ensure the provision of a distinguished service to the citizens.
Dr Refaat Abdel Wahab, Training Programme Manager and Research and Development Consultant at Holding for Drinking Water and Sanitation, stressed the importance of the transfer of expertise and the use of advanced technologies by French water companies to develop and improve customer and commercial services, which directly affect the citizen. He added that the theme of the training addresses the mechanisms of customer service development, the billing system and the number of subscribers, to arrive at the most important recommendations and guidelines that can be applied in the coming period.
Jean Antoine Faby, director of the French chair AgroParisTech – SUEZ, explained that one of the outcomes of the training launched by the Holding Company for Drinking Water and Sanitation in cooperation with the French authorities with the support of the French aid agency AFD and the French company SUEZ, is to improve financial and commercial aspects, develop customer service and create qualified leaders for the advancement of the drinking water and sanitation sector.
The training included a discussion on the mechanisms for developing a customer service management database, auditing and identifying the weaknesses and strengths of the subsidiaries in providing services to customers, in order to determine the criteria through which commercial and financial services can be developed.
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Launch of the short training session for managers in customer management in Cairo – HCWW
The short training session has started this Sunday at the Pyramisa hotel
5 days training on commercial and customer management for 25 managers from the Holding Company on Water and Wastewater
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