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1. MOBILISING FINANCE FOR WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION (ROOM 1)

Speaker: Mr. Manfred Konukiewitz, Head of water and infrastructure division at the German Ministry for Development Co-operation

Key issues and background papers:

This session would address the key financing issues that emerged from the International Conference on Freshwater, Bonn 2001.

- keynote speech and presentation

-panel presentations -panel presentations

- background documents
- other related documents

Panellists:

• Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Jordan(name to be confirmed)
• Steven Lintner, World Bank
• Peter Bhembe, Managing Director, Swaziland Water Services Corporation
• Aniruddhe Mukerjee, Director, Normada Valley Development Agency, India

Chair: Effendy Sumardja, Assistant Minister, State Ministry for Environemnt, Indonesia

2. HARNESSING PRIVATE FUNDS FOR FINANCING PUBLIC ENVIRONMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Speaker: Bradford Gentry (Yale University)

Key issues and background papers:

• Forms of private-public partnership in provision of environmental infrastructure services;
• Countries' experience illustrating the role of government in creating favourable framework conditions for Public-Private Partnerships in development and operation of urban water supply and sanitation;
• Charging for infrastructure and environmental services;
• Legal, policy and institutional conditions for private sector involvement in provision of public infrastructure services;
• Public participation

- keynote speech and presentation

- background documents
- other related documents

Panellists:

• Mike Muller, South Africa
• Carlos Chavez, Department of Economics, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile
• Thierry Chambolle, Ondeo