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  • 11 to 14 January 2022 – 2nde International Conference in UNESCO HQ in Paris

    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
    – Youth Declaration and/or Call for Actions for water and climate change in Megacities

    Pre-Programme Water, Megacities, Global Change 2022

  • 19 November – World Toilet Day!

    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.

    Who cares about toilets?

  • Seminars on water governance

    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

  • INDONESIA – Reward for best performing water utilities

    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

    https://jambi.tribunnews.com/2021/09/16/perumdam-tirta-mayang-kota-jambi-raih-top-bumd-awards-2021-komitmen-meningkatkan-pelayanan

  • GHANA – KICK-OFF OF THE EXCUTIVE TRAINING SESSION AT KNUST IN KUMASI

    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

    Mega drinking water project in Bita – Angola

     (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

    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 

    https://lnkd.in/ddxNp3q

  • The Next Path for Water – IWA

    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 Water

    Learn more with this blog based on David’s keynote speech at the Digital #WorldWaterCongress
    http://ow.ly/ucWy50Fitj3

    In 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.

  • HCWW – End of the training for managers in customer and commercial management

    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

    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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  • The Holding Company for Water and Wastewater collaborates with AgroParisTech to organize a short training session for managers in customer management in Cairo

    The Holding Company for Water and Wastewater collaborates with AgroParisTech to organize a short training session for managers in customer management in Cairo

    Engineer Mamdouh Raslan, Chairman of the Holding Company for Water and Wastewater for drinking water and sanitation, stressed today, Wednesday 16 June 2021, the importance of developing working mechanisms in the financial, commercial and customer service sectors, facilitating, simplifying and easing procurement procedures and putting in place controls to ensure accountability for actual readings, to ensure the provision of exceptional service to citizens.
    The Holding Company for Water and Sanitation organised a training course, in coordination with many experts and specialists from AgroParisTech, with the participation of the managers of the financial, commercial and customer service departments to build capacity and qualify its managers in the area of customer service and the financial and commercial departments of the subsidiaries at the Republic level.
    The training course included a discussion on the mechanisms of developing a customer service management database, auditing and identifying the weaknesses and strengths of the affiliates in providing services to customers, in order to determine the criteria according to which commercial and financial services can be developed.

    Dr. Rifaat Abdel Wahab, training programme manager and research and development consultant at the Holding Company for Drinking Water and Sanitation, stressed the importance of transferring know-how and taking advantage of advanced technologies in French water companies to develop and improve customer service, financial service and commercial services, which directly affect the citizen.
    He added that the subject of the course covers the mechanisms of customer service development, the billing system, the number of subscribers and the presentation of the offers of the subsidiaries over a period of two days of training, to arrive at the most important recommendations and guidelines that can be applied in the coming period.
    The training, launched by the Holding for Drinking Water and Sanitation in cooperation with the French authorities, with the support of the French Development Agency (AFD) and SUEZ, aims at improving financial and commercial aspects, developing customer service and creating qualified leaders for the advancement of the drinking water and sanitation sector.
    He pointed out that a training course will be held in Cairo from June 27 to July 1 in the presence of French experts and specialists, with the aim of training executives within the Holding and its subsidiaries.
    Dr. Mohsen Abdel Gaid, head of the financial and commercial sector, made a presentation examining the vision of the Holding Company to reach the level of the global industry in the management of drinking water and wastewater enterprises in Egypt. Its mission is to manage drinking water and help wastewater companies to provide their services in accordance with Egyptian standards on the basis of economy and sustainable development.
    He explained that one of the most important tasks of the commercial affairs is to complete the contracting procedures for new subscribers, open their files and records, enter their data into the computer, open the meter records and monitor their reading, supervise and elaborate the billing of the customers’ water consumption system and supervise the organisation of communication and exchange of information between the agencies. It will also be necessary to participate in the preparation of commercial studies, to propose systems and procedures necessary to strengthen the control and inspection function to eliminate illegal connections.
    He indicated that the commercial sector is in permanent contact with the departments of the technical support sector, the financial sector, the technical office, human resources and projects.

    https://www.albawabhnews.com/4369709