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Enhancing Water Management in Africa: UNW-DPC Workshop Overview

Learn about the mission of UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development, its initiatives, and collaborations to improve water governance in Africa. Explore key activities and workshops aimed at reducing drinking water loss and building stakeholder capacity in the region.

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Enhancing Water Management in Africa: UNW-DPC Workshop Overview

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  1. Dr. Jens Liebe 1st Regional workshop for Africa on Safe use of Wastewater in Agriculture 18 February 2012 Marrakech, Morocco Introduction to UNW-DPC 1

  2. UNW-DPC’s Mission “to enhance the coherence, credibility and integrated effectiveness of UN-Water by strengthening its capacity development programmes, particularly in developing countries and economies in transition.”

  3. WWAP UNW-DPC UNW-DPAC UN-Water Members UN-Water Partners

  4. UNW-DPC work plan • Improve synergy, and strategic and operational coherence of UN-Water • Strengthen technical and policy guidance of UN-Water and contribute to the “professionalization” of water governance and management • Cooperate with other UN-Water programmes • Support UN-Water and its member in general, in particular its Task Forces, Thematic Priority Areas (TPAs) and other coordinated activities of UN-Water members

  5. UNW-DPC Capacity Development Effort

  6. UNW-DPC Areas of Activity all areas of priority to UN-Water:

  7. Example: UNW-DPC support sequence on Drinking Water Loss Reduction • 1. International workshop • Raise awareness • Determine level of stakeholder interest • Identify stakeholders’ experience, assess key issues and action-oriented tasks • Publish report as baseline for regional meetings

  8. 2. Series of Regional Drinking Water Loss Reduction Workshops (with UN-Habitat, local partners)

  9. 3. Further awareness raising Workshop in Burkina Faso Seminar South Africa Seminar on "Capacity Building for Non Revenue Water Loss Reduction: an Africa Perspective"

  10. Book and Video launch Launched at the World Water Day 2011 in Cape Town

  11. UNWAIS+ Discover, learn, and share! Launched by Dr. Zafar Adeel Chair of UN-Water, Director of UNU-INWEH November 14, 2011

  12. Thank you! UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development(UNW-DPC) UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY UN Campus Hermann-Ehlers-Str. 10 D-53113 Bonn, Germany Phone: + 49 (0) 228 815-0652 Fax: + 49 (0) 228 815-0655 E-Mail: info@unwater.unu.edu www.unwater.unu.edu

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