Guinea, building capacities of IWRM actors

Guinea has developed since some years its IWRM roadmap and with it appears the necessity to build the capacities of the actors. As part of the capacity-building of the state and non-state actors involved in the IWRM process, an awareness, information, exchange and experience-sharing workshop was organized on 12th and 13th January 2017 in Conakry. Fifty participants took part in the meeting. The official ceremony was chaired by Mr. Ismaël DIA, Water Adviser of the Minister of Hydraulics and Energy.

To implement IWRM and have a behaviour change impact, many recommendations were made including the operationalization of the National Water Commission; the support of the Water Fund for the implementation of the priority actions of the IWRM roadmap; - the setting up of a consultation and proposal framework on the integrated management of water resources, bringing together the main actors involved in the implementation of IWRM; the establishment of a system for collecting data and information on groundwater; the setting up of a partnership framework between the State and the technical and financial partners, around sector reform some water. It was also recommended that actions on experience sharing with other countries in the sub-region in the implementation of IWRM are done. Partners were also called on to support the implementation of IWRM, in the implementation of the National Water Policy (under development) and its development action plan (PAGIRE).