A Strategic Asset Management Approach to Africa’s Water and Sanitation Resources

Given the importance of water resources for sustainable socio-economic development in Africa, their management as strategic assets offers a pathway to advancing regional integration, trade, industrialization, food and energy security, sustainable urbanization, transport, climate resilience, and peace. This webinar and the related policy brief seek to outline how African countries and regions can operationalize and embed strategic asset management principles to strengthen water resources governance, planning, and financing, and to establish transboundary frameworks and regional cooperation.

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Webinar Programme

Moderated by:

• Patrice Noutadieu, Senior Portfolio Management Officer - Secondee AIP PIDA Water Investment Scorecard, AUDA-NEPAD

9:00 - 9:15 Opening remarks

Welcoming Remarks: Ms. Cristina Duarte, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on Africa, OSAA

• Opening Remarks: Mr. Claver Gatete, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

• Opening Remarks: Dr. Martin Fregene, Vice-President (OiC), Agriculture, Human and Social Development (AHVP), African Development Bank

9:15 - 10:15 Panel Discussion

• Mr Hycinth Banseka, Technical Director, Lake Chad Basin Commission

• Dr Najib Bateganya, Deputy Director, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Gates Foundation

• Ms Joanna Fatch, Water Resources Governance Specialist

• Dr. Olufunke Cofie,Africa Director for Research Impact, International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Discussant:

• Ms. Refilwe Buthelezi, President, Federation of African Engineering Organizations

   

10:15 - 10:25 Q&A with the audience

10:25 - 10:30 Closing remarks and call to action

• H.E. Ambassador Mohamed Edrees, Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations