Agenda

Access to Drinking Water and Sanitation:
can Africa reach the Millennium Development Goals?

Paris, Tuesday 5 June 2007
9.30 - 17.30

Centre de conférences Pierre Mendès France - Ministère de l'Economie, des finances et de l'emploi
139 rue de Bercy - 75012

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08:30 - 09:20

Registration - tea/coffee

Opening

09:30 - 10:00

Louka T. Katseli, Director, OECD Development Center

Ángel Gurría, Secretary General, OECD
Louis Kasekende, Chief Economist, African Development Bank

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I. Can Africa Substantially Improve Access to Water by 2015?

Facilitator: Caroline Lambert, Southern Africa Correspondent, The Economist

10:00 - 10:30

Introduction to the African Economic Outlook
Abdellatif Bernoussi, Manager, Networking and Research Partnership Division, African Development Bank
Kenneth Ruffing, Co-ordinator, African Economic Outlook

10:30 - 12:00(Panel)

Loïc Fauchon, President, World Water Council
Lindiwe Benedicta Hendricks, Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry, South Africa
Bernard Petit, Deputy Director General, Direction General for the Development, European Commission

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12:00 - 13:00

Your Questions & Their Answers

• Should water be free for the poorest, and if not, what are the alternatives?
• How to make sure that water becomes more attractive to private sector?
• What are the mistakes done when decentralising the water sector?
• Quelle place les bailleurs de fonds vont-ils accorder aux migrants dans le développement de l'accès à l'eau et à l'assainissement ?
• Ne peut-on pas imaginer une Convention mondiale sur l'eau ?
• Quel a été l'impact des privatisations du service public de l'eau en Afrique ?

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13:00 - 14:30

Lunch

II. Improving Access to Drinking Water and Sanitation: What Works on the Ground?

Facilitator: Seidik Abba, Association de la Presse Panafricaine (APPA), Agence de presse panafricaine Panapress

14:30 - 16:00 (Panel)

Kordje Bedoumra, Director, Water and Sanitation Department, African Development Bank
Jack Moss, Senior Water Advisor, AquaFed
Adama Sall, Minister of Water Supply, Senegal
Jean Michel Severino, Director General, French Development Agency
Pierre Frédéric Ténière-Buchot, Vice-Chair, Programme Solidarité-Eau

16:00 - 17:00

Questions & Answers

Concluding remarks

17:00 - 17:30

Jean-Christophe Deberre, Director, Development Policies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France
Louis Kasekende, Chief Economist, African Development Bank
Louka T. Katseli, Director, OECD Development Centre