November 13 -17, 2006

Ministries, Government Agencies or Utilities in charge of Reforms (AEPA) and 16 African countries as follows : Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, RDC, Rwanda, Senegal, Chad, Togo, Tunisia.

AfWA/WUP, World Bank, Water Solidarity Programme , UNESCO Water Chair

The ONEP MD, Mr Ali Fassi Fihri, presided over the opening and closing ceremonies of the workshop. In his opening speech, he presented the characteristics and challenges of his company in the presence of his Central Managers: perpetuation of the existing means, access of all to drinking water, and sanitation development. He also mentioned ONEP overture to cooperation with sub-Saharan African Water and Sanitation Utilities under various forms (training, service provisions etc). The exchanges were fruitful with the active and good level participation of all the senior managers representing a great variety of situations. For the majority of participants, Burkina Faso, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia are examples that could help the French speaking Africa AEPA (Drinking Water and Sanitation) sector in its way towards progress. For all, we can not get away from the reforms if we want to ensure a Drinking Water and Sanitation quality service to all. The drinking water supply is extremely insufficient: at least some tens of thousands connections for an average population of 15 to 20 million inhabitants per African country. Sanitation has been highly backward.

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