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The OECD Development Centre and the African Development Bank
Experts’ Meeting on
Access to Drinking Water and Sanitation in Africa
1 December 2006
Room Roger Ockrent, OECD Headquarters - 2, rue André Pascal, 75016 Paris
09:00 – 11:00 Access to drinking water and sanitation: is Africa on track to reach the MDGs?
Opening remarks: Kiyo Akasaka, Deputy Secretary General, OECD
Chair: Introduction, Javier Santiso, Deputy Director, OECD Development Centre
a) Presentation of the progress and challenges of African countries to reach the MDG on water and sanitation, Jacqueline Sims and Rolf Luyendijk, WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme on Water Supply and Sanitation
b) The challenge of sanitation, Adama Mbaye, Director, Water Sanitation in Senegal
c) The institutional framework for water and sanitation, Peter L. Akari, Chief Water Policy Officer, African Water Facility, African Development Bank (AfDB)
d) A national perspective: how does the local management fit into the national water framework? Francis D. Bougaïre, General Director, Burkina Faso’s Water Ressources, Burkina Faso
Discussant: Alain Henry, Director for Infrastructures and Sustainable Urban Development, Agence Française de Développement
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30 Financing access to drinking water and sanitation: what issues and actors
Chair: Kordje Bedoumra, Director of the Water and Sanitation Department, AfDB
e) The challenges faced by a national water company in Africa, Cheikh Fall, Director of Patrimony and Development Control, Société Nationale des Eaux du Sénégal, Senegal
f) Cost recovery mechanisms: the successful case of National Water and Sewerage Corporation, Uganda and its relevance for other African cities, William Muhairwe, Managing Director, National Water and Sewerage Corporation, Uganda
g) Financing rural water supply - Exploring the potential of micro-finance, Meera Mehta, Consultant, Water and Sanitation Program
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 17:00 Financing access to drinking water and sanitation: what issues and actors (cont.)
h) The EU Water Initiative, Martin Walshe, Senior Water Expert at EC DG/DEV and member of the EUWI Secretariat, and Johan Holmberg, Chair of the Finance Working Group and consultant to EC DG/DEV
i) Bank financing of water and sanitation infrastructure, lessons from European Investment Bank,
José Frade, Head of the Water, Sewerage and Sewage Disposal, Projects Directorate, European Investment Bank
j) The African Development Bank tools: the African Water Facility and the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Initiative, Peter L. Akari, Chief Water Policy Officer, African Water Facility, (AfDB)
Discussant: Paul van Hofwegen, Director of Programmes, World Water Council
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee break
k) Summary of key findings from the OECD Global Forum on Sustainable Development, Peter Börkey, Administrator, Urban Water Sector Reform, GFII - OECD/ENV (Global Forum on Sustainable Development)
l) The role of local private initiatives, Winifred Kalebu, Chairperson, Association of Private Water Operators, Uganda
m) Private sector participation in water and sanitation infrastructure and services, Alain Mathys, Program Manager, Water Access, Directorate of Institutional Relations, Strategy and Sustainable Development Durable - Suez Environnement
n) Private sector participation and regulatory reform in urban water supply: the case of North Africa and the Middle East, Edouard Perard, Candidate to Ph.D., Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
Summary of the key findings by Temitope Waheed Oshikoya, Manager, Networking and Research Partnerships Div/ision, African Development Bank
17:00 Closure
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