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The News N° 25
Mali
Training
at SOMAGEP
The Malian Drinking Water Supply
Management Company (SOMAGEP)
is a
new company established by the sectoral
reform in the field of water and electricity in
Mali. It is responsible for operating and
managing theDWS facilities and has 18 cen-
ters in the country. Its missions focus on
urbanareasofmore than10,000 inhabitants.
”SOMAGEP”
has launched an ambitious
program to strengthen its employees’ skills
onwater issues.
For such a purpose, ”SOMAGEP”
requested IOWater to carry out training
sessionson the issuesof pipe layingout
inBamako in 2014.
Several
”SOMAGEP”
engineers also plan to
attend training courses in Limoges; including
on water meter management and on impro-
ving the performance of drinking water
supply systems.
Messrs. Abdul Aziz Traore, Director of
the support center, and Boubacar
IdrissaMaiga, Director of water supply
at ”SOMAGEP”, visited IOWater’sNatio-
nal Water Training Center (NWTC) in
August 2014.
This visit helped to define areas for future
collaboration that will focus on the following
training topics: wiring and programming of
micro automatons, cleaning of reservoirs and
waterworks, soldering of Polyethylene pipes,
metrology, counting, follow-up of a contract
of public service delegation, organization of
the service, mechanical maintenance (pump,
booster,...) andwater treatment in a plant.
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The Burkinabe Authorities have established
themain regulations for thedevelopment and
modernization of the drinking water supply
and sanitation sector:
l
1998: Guidancematerial on decentraliza-
tion;
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2004: General Code of Local Authorities;
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2009: Transfer of responsibilities and
resources from the Government to
Municipalities in theDWSS sector.
Under the DWSS Sectoral Support, financed
by German Cooperation, KfW provides funds
to Burkina Faso for:
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The implementation of water supply and
sanitation structures and support to stake-
holders in the handling of new installa-
tions;
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The capacity building of the stakeholders
in sustainable management of the struc-
tures and in the quality insurance system,
in connection with the planning and
implementation of investments.
In this context,
the RODECO-IOWater
Groupwas selected for aprojectof tech-
nical assistance to the National Office
forWater SupplyandSanitation (ONEA).
The activities undertaken in November 2014
were organized for a fifteen-month period
with twomain components:
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Building of capacities and skills
through the vocational training of 550
employees;
l
Establishment of a quality system
in
connection with the planning and imple-
mentation of investments.
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Burkina Faso
AccompanyingMeasures
to the DWSSSectoral Budgetary Support
Capacity Building of CEMEAU
As part of the Project for Capacity Buil-
ding of the Water Training Center
(CEMEAU) of the National Office for
Water Supply and Sanitation (ONEA),
funded by German Cooperation GIZ
(GIZ-PEA program), the experts of the
GFA-International Office for Water
Group carriedout variousactivities from
September 2013 to September 2014
,
including:
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Analysis of the training needs of
”ONEA”
operational departments;
l
Drafting of descriptive sheets for training
courses;
l
Operational definitionof the steps relating
to the building of practical workshops,
new training units and for the rehabilita-
tion of existing units;
l
Spatial organization of the training facili-
ties of the Center;
l
Procedures and tools for financial mana-
gement of the Center;
l
A handbook for the Management of the
Center;
l
Implementation of a new computer
system for the Center’s information and
datamanagement (GED);
l
Development of new tools for the trade
promotion of the Center’s activities and
services;
l
Specific study on HRM data of the
”ONEA’s”
960 employees and their sta-
tistical processing;
l
Analysis prior to specific training for
improving the methods and tools for
”ONEA’s”
payroll management;
l
Establishment of protocols for opinion
surveys and formeasuring indicators rela-
ted to the satisfaction of users of the
training center.
This support program shouldbe completed in
2015.
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Training session on ”Pipe Laying out”
in Bamako
Strengthening of CEMEAU
training facilities
