Expert Consultation Workshop on Financing and Water in North Africa and the wider Mediterranean, 24 February 2010, Madrid (Spain)

The Workshop is organised by the Secretariat of the Mediterranean Component of the EU Water

Initiative (MED EUWI)/ Global Water Partnership – Mediterranean (GWP-Med), and the EU Water

Initiative Finance Working Group (EUWI-FWG), with the support of the Governments of Spain,

Greece, the European Commission and the GEF Strategic Partnership for the Mediterranean - Large

Marine Ecosystems.

The aim of the Workshop is to address and discuss the main challenges and opportunities the North

African countries encounter with regard to financing the water sector and provide realistic

recommendations based on experiences and lessons learnt from the North African countries and the

wider Mediterranean region.

The Workshop will build on the Sharm El Sheikh Commitments for accelerating the achievement for

water and sanitation goals in Africa, as decided in the African Union Assembly (30 June-1 July 2008),

and contribute to the follow-up steps in that direction and specifically to the forthcoming African

Ministerial Conference on Finance and Water planned for the end of March 2010, in Dakar, Senegal.

At the same time, the Workshop is expected to be complemented by and complement the elaboration

process of the Strategy on Water in the Mediterranean (SWM), within the framework of the Union for

the Mediterranean (UfM), and specifically regarding the SWM’s chapter on Water Financing. For this

purpose, the Workshop will be organised back-to-back with the 3rd Meeting of the Water Expert Group

(WEG), 25 February, Madrid, that is mandated by the UfM Ministers on Water to elaborate on the

SWM.

The outcome of the Workshop is expected to be a set of recommendations on how to effectively

address the issue of financing and water in North Africa with possible application to the wider

Mediterranean. The document will serve as part of the direct input to the Dakar Ministerial Meeting

that is currently being prepared by AMCOW and the African Development Bank with support from the

Global Water Partnership (GWP). Moreover, these recommendations would be fed into the SWM

preparatory process, leading to the SWM’s adoption during the UfM Ministerial Conference on Water

(13 April 2010, Barcelona, Spain).

The Workshop’s audience will include targeted representatives from North African Finance and Water

Ministries, competent authorities of other EU and non-EU Mediterranean countries, International

Financing Institutions, regional organisations and representatives of the private sector.

Agenda - Registration Form

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Contact information	GWP-Med / MED EUWI Secretariat, 12, Kyrristou str. , 10556 Athens, Greece (email: secretariat@gwpmed.org ; vangelis@gwpmed.org ) Phone: +30210-3247490, -3247267 ; F: +30210-3317127
Event type	Seminar
File link	../PDF/20100224_registration-form_en
Source	Global Water Partnership - Mediterranean (GWP-Med)
Subject(s)	FINANCE-ECONOMY , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT
Relation	http://www.emwis.org/documents/fol195274
Geographical coverage	Spain
Address	Madrid, Spain
Organizer	The Secretariat of the Mediterranean Component of the EU Water Initiative (MED EUWI)/ Global Water Partnership – Mediterranean (GWP-Med), and the EU Water Initiative Finance Working Group (EUWI-FWG), with the support of the Governments of Spain, Greece, the European Commission and the GEF Strategic Partnership for the Mediterranean - Large Marine Ecosystems
Target audience	Regional
Period	24/02/2010
Status	Confirmed
Working language(s)	ENGLISH

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