On Thursday, November 03, 2022, the Platform for the Coordination of Civil Society Organizations on Water and Sanitation in Senegal (POSCEAS) organized a general assembly for the renewal of the Platform's coordination board. It took place at the documentation center of ENDA Tiers Monde located on Cheikh Anta Diop Avenue.
GWP-WA’s Executive Secretary, Mr. Armand Houanye attended the Kick-off Meeting of the ‘’EPIC Africa Project - Energy Planning and Modelling through Integrated Assessment of Climate-Land-Energy-Water Nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Cases of the Volta and Tana River Basins’’ on 22nd and 23rd November 2022. The Kick-off meeting was held in Accra, Ghana from 21 to 25 November 2022.
In order to carry out an in-depth consultation with the main stakeholders of Benin on the indicators of the water investment monitoring systems (AIP SCORECARD and WASSMO), for the purpose of validating the data collected under the 2021-2022 review, the Water, Climate, Development and Gender Equality Programme (WACDEP G) implemented by the Benin Country Water Partnership (CWP BENIN) in collaboration with the Benin Water Directorate, organised the workshop for the validation of Benin's data in the African Water Investment Scorecard (AIP Scorecard) and the setting up of the national data collection platform for the WASSMO system indicators, at the SOSSA Hotel in Cotonou (Benin).
In order to contribute to a good use of the infrastructures, of treatment of the sludge of the station of Abomey-Calavi, the framework of dialogue of the non-State actors of the sector of water and sanitation (CANEA) supported by NIYEL through the project Sanitize the Waste and Liquid, organized a training workshop for the emptying workers gathered within the Association of the Professional waste-pickers (AVIPRO) of Benin.
The non-state actors’ consultation framework (CANEA) held a workshop to raise awareness among the populations of the Greater Nokoué Communes (Cotonou, Abomey-Calavi, Ouidah, Semè-Podji and Porto-Novo) on the standards to be respected for the construction of sanitation facilities.
The members of the regional Steering committee of GWP-Central Africa met in Douala, Cameroon for the 16th annual Steering Committee meeting which was held from November 24th – 25th 2022.
The Ministry of Water and Sanitation in Malawi is championing a process to understand and find solutions to the country’s three major barriers to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 6 so that the country can focus on interventions that directly address the challenges.