Water For African Cities Programme Regional Workshop for SubSaharan Africa and Arab Region Nairobi,

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Water For African CitiesProgramme
Regional Workshop for Sub-Saharan Africa and Arab
Region Nairobi, Kenya, 7-8 March 2005

• Water, Sanitation Infrastructure Branch,
• UN-HABITAT

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Water for African Cities the programme
objectives 1999 -2002

• To support African countries to address the
  growing urban water crisis through awareness,
  promotion of effective policies, programmes and
  investments and to build capacity at the local
  level
• Water Demand Management
• Environmental protection of resources
• Awareness creation Investment promotion

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Programme Implementation Strategy

• Principle donor UNFIP US 2.1 million leveraged
  an additional US 8million
• Implemented in Accra, Addis Ababa, Abidjan,
  Dakar, Dar-es-Salaam, Lusaka, Johannesburg,
  Nairobi
• Developed action plans complimentary to on-going
  water sector support but within Programme
  objectives focussing on demonstration
• Guided by Ministerial advisory group
  city-managers

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Successes achieved

• What did the programme achieved during phase I
  (1999- 2002) in terms of?
• Capacity built, institutional change
• influencing policy change
• Contributing to the Global debate on conservation
  of water resources
• Investment Promotion

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Practical Results WDM

• In Dakar, a pilot demonstration in public
  buildings led to a reduction in losses of 50.
• In Addis, an annual reduction in unaccounted for
  water from about 40 to 32. which was as much
  as (8) of total annual production, mainly with
  awareness campaigns
• In Lusaka, there has been substantial
  improvement in the revrenue collection rate due
  to the ability of LWSC to disconnect users
  (February 2000 14, and November 2001 88)

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Practical Results Resource Protection

• Nairobi, Accra, Johannesburg developed local
  catchment management for rivers
• Dakar Protection strategy for Lac de Guiers and
  community-managed sewage treatment and reuse
• Lusaka, Abidjan groundwater assessment and
  control

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Evaluation Impact

• Full evaluation undertaken by GWP chair
• UNFIP most cost-effective investment of all
  their projects
• Demand for development of Phase II
• Unique network of city-managers achieved for
  south-south cooperation

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Water for African Cities Developing Phase II

• Use generic tools developed in Phase I
• Scale-up/replication from demonstration
• South-south cooperation through city manager
  network
• Increased focus on investment promotion
• Urban poor a priority and increased focus on
  sanitation

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Programme structure WAC II

• Upscale in existing 8 cities
• Expand with additional 7 cities depending on
  support
• Phased approach
• Phase I Partnership Development
• Phase II Capacity-building demonstration
  full-scale project development
• Phase III Investment Promotion
• Fostering regional co-operarion

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Water for African Cities Phase II

• Supported by Governments of Sweden, Norway and
  Canada through the UNHABITAT WATSAN Trust Fund
• Participating cities will leverage additional
  support
• Programme formulation underway in
• Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Mozambique,
  Uganda
• Country-level collaboration with ADB (Cameroon,
  Ethiopia, Mozambique) World Bank (Senegal)

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The UN-HABITAT Lake Victoria Water and Sanitation
Initiative Supporting Secondary Urban Centres
in the Lake Victoria Region to Achieve the
Millennium Development Goals
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Project objectives

• To fast track investment to secondary urban
  centres for water and sanitation in the Lake
  Victoria region in pursuit of the MDGs
• To foster co-operation in the East African Region
  to promote economic development for the Lake
  Victoria Region under the EAC
• To implement on-going sector reforms at the local
  level
• To reduce the environmental impact of
  urbanisation on the Lake Victoria Basin

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Lake Victoria Region Water Sanitation Initiative

• Over the past 6 Months
• 30 secondary urban centres have been surveyed and
  documented using a novel rapid appraisal process
• Investment plans to achieve (and maintain!) the
  MDGs for water and sanitation have been developed
  for 15 urban centres, including detailed cost
  estimates
• High level political support has been given to
  the initiative by the three countries and also
  regional initiative
• Sub-regional training and capacity-building needs
  have been identified to further support and
  sustain infrastructure investments in the region
• Cost of the assessment was approx. US 80,000
• Stakeholder consultation underway
• For investment of circa million US 52 the
  MDGs could be achieved within a 3 year period in
  the selected secondary urban centres, thus
  improving the livelihoods of many of the
  un-served and underpinning economic growth for
  the region

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Challenges Ahead

• Lack of Baseline Information on MDG Coverage
• Need for Operationalizing Sector Reforms at the
  Local Level
• Local Resource Mobilization for sustaining
  investments
• Advocacy-Information-Education, a powerful tool
  essential to good governance and resolving local
  conflicts
• Enhancing Capacity for Programme Delivery

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Conclusions

• UN-HABITAT approach seen as a workable method to
  promote increased investment by Regional
  Development Banks and bilateral donors
• Complimentarity with existing programmes
• Rapid mobilization, taking advantage of a
  reliable project infrastructure
• Relies on local-capacity and decentralised
  programme management.
• Significant impact within an acceptable timeframe
  (2-3 years)