There were about eighty (80) participants drawn from GWP Office in Stockholm Sweden, the Africa Ministerial Council on Water (AMCOW) TAC members from the 8 countries, WACDEP Coordination Unit in Pretoria, regional and country offices of GWP in Tunisia, Central Africa, Eastern Africa, West Africa and Southern Africa, the WACDEP Reference Group Members and other supporting institutions like Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), African Development Bank (AfDB), International Water Management Institute (IWMI), and Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA).
The technical coordination meetings of WACDEP are aimed at creating communities of practice so that regions and countries with commonalties in deliverables can be encouraged to work together and learn from each other. During this 7th meeting in Accra, in addition to programmatic issues, financial issues for the programme and the proposed new WACDEP budget allocations for countries/regions and guidelines for WACDEP financial and narrative reporting were discussed. The WACDEP coordination brought support to countries and regions for the development of the 2016 WACDEP Annual Work plans with budgets for the regions and countries.
A major issue also discussed were the capitalization processes going on or to be initiated in the countries/regions and at the continental and global levels. The meeting noted that a lot of knowledge products were been developed and the processes in the countries and regions should continue to allow the continental level develop global products to target high level decisions makers and donors. Issues related to targets and dissemination channels of the knowledges products from the WACDEP implementation were also discussed. The workshop also initiated the process of developing WACDEP Regional Project Documents (2016/17 – 2019) to support the expansion of WACDEP
In attendance were representatives from key partners of WACDEP-Ghana like the Water Resources Commission (WRC), Ghana Irrigation Development Agency (GIDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), Pronet-GHANA, Ministry Of Finance (MOF), and Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA).
Also present were representatives from media houses like MultiTv, The WASH Times, Aliveghananews, the Ghana News Agency (GNA), and Hot FM to cover the opening ceremony.
The ceremony was chaired by the Acting Chairman of CWP-Ghana and the Executive Secretary of Water Resources Commission, Mr. Ben Ampomah with the Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing (MWRWH), Hon. (Dr.) Kwaku Agyeman-Mensah delivering the Welcome address.
The workshop was closed by the Deputy of the MWRWH, Hon. Vincent Oppong Asamoah.
This workshop was sponsored by the Global Water Partnership (GWP).