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Regional Workshop to disseminate Water Supply and Sanitation Standards of Quality of Service, adapted to LDCs Preparation to the ISO TC 224 Draft Standards test in Africa. WBI/InWEnt/AFWA/NWSC WORKSHOP KAMPALA (UGANDA), JULY 24-27, 2007.

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  1. Regional Workshop to disseminate Water Supply and Sanitation Standards of Quality of Service, adapted to LDCsPreparation to the ISO TC 224 Draft Standards test in Africa.WBI/InWEnt/AFWA/NWSC WORKSHOP KAMPALA (UGANDA), JULY 24-27, 2007

  2. The Role and responsibility of African local authorities in water and sanitation management and the impacts of standardization Félix ADEGNIKA, Municipal Development Partnership WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, 24-27 July, 2007 - ISO Workshop

  3. Summary • The role and responsibilities of local authorities in the management of WSS • Current context and repositioning of local authorities • Building a favourable environment for a improved involvement of local authorities in the management of WSS WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, 24-27 July, 2007 - ISO Workshop

  4. The role and responsibilities of African local government • Legitimacy and legality of local authorities in the management of WSS: elective legitimacy, popular legitimacy and institutional legitimacy • Moral and political obligations: assume legal competences, and meet the expectations of the populations: service to all strata and on the entire local territory WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, 24-27 July, 2007 - ISO Workshop

  5. Various contexts and levels of water and sanitation services in a local territory • Urban areas: conventional network system, contractor with quasi-monopoly; coverage for credit-worthy populations, desertion of the peripheries and irregular areas • Rural areas: relatively low standard of services with hardly motivated public operators and small voluntary private operators; approximate quality of services • Urban peripheries: alternative systems initiated by small scale operators; bad quality of services WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, 24-27 July, 2007 - ISO Workshop

  6. Periurban Urban Rural Drinking Water : Different level of services WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, 24-27 July, 2007 - ISO Workshop

  7. How is the local contracting done? • In urban areas: forced absence (monopoly by the contractor) or voluntary (inadequacy of technical and financial capacities) of municipal action; • In rural areas: local authorities initiate investments, mobilization of financial resources, construction of infrastructures, but with often conflicting relations with the other stakeholders; WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, 24-27 July, 2007 - ISO Workshop

  8. How is local contracting done? • In urban peripheries: weak local initiatives, intervention of badly coordinated multiple stakeholders • Local appreciation in value: contracting, planning, regulation, quality control, approval based on a global vision negotiated with all the stakeholders operating in the system WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, 24-27 July, 2007 - ISO Workshop

  9. What is expected of the local authority in the improvement process of WSS • Local authority, facilitator of a dialogue process involving all stakeholders in the sector (utilities, small scale operators, users, consumers) • Local authority, unifier of all the local forms of demands, in terms of improvement in access to drinking water and sanitation • Local authorities, mobilizing and coordinator of all the local forms of supply in view of improving them WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, 24-27 July, 2007 - ISO Workshop

  10. Application context of governance standards of WSS • Decentralisation process that promotes taking charge of WSS closer to the people with a conductor’s role recognized and accepted by all the other stakeholders • Lack of WSS quality assessment tool at the level of institutional stakeholders as well as the beneficiaries of services; • Lack of user information mechanisms on the discontinuities of services and billing • Lack of contractual relationships between institutional stakeholders and informal stakeholders for an improved quality of WSS WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, 24-27 July, 2007 - ISO Workshop

  11. New approaches for the involvement of local authorities • Elaboration and implementation of concerted local strategy which will lead to the signing of partnership agreements between different stakeholders operating in the sector • Setting up tools and capacity building for the assessment and follow up of local contracting, particularly conventions and partnerships with stakeholders working in the sector • Ratification of TC 224 standardization process WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, 24-27 July, 2007 - ISO Workshop

  12. Conclusion • In the current context of WSS governance, normalisation could be an opportunity and one of the entry points for the re-involvement of African local authorities in a sector they willingly or unwillingly abandoned • The sites selected for the tests have the responsibility to ensure the success of these tests by putting in place the best conditions for their implementation WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, 24-27 July, 2007 - ISO Workshop

  13. Thanks for your attention WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, 24-27 July, 2007 - ISO Workshop

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