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AFRICA
The News N° 25
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FRom one conTinenT To anoTHeR
Water Facility of the European Union
The project for support to CICOS is ending
Started in early 2012, the project for
support to water resources manage-
ment in the Congo River Basin, which
receives funding from the European
Union and the Rhine-Meuse Water
Agency (AERM) is ending this year.
For three years,
training courses on opera-
tional hydrology
have been organized for
theNational Hydrological Services of the coun-
tries of
the International Congo-Ubangi-
Sangha Basin Commission (CICOS),
and
support given for the establishment of
aMas-
terplan for Water Development and
Management (SDAGE)
through a participa-
tory approach.
Several activities were organized in 2014,
especially exchanges about the ”SDAGE’s”
objectives and their appropriation by Non-
State stakeholders,with the support of Solida-
rity-Water Europe and ”EauVive”.
The
CICOS
representatives were also invited
by AERM to take part in the Rhine-Meuse
BasinCommittee.
The project-closing workshop, co-funded by
German Cooperation, which took place in
November 2014,was indeed the firstmeeting
of
the Regional Consultative Hub
establi-
shed by
CICOS
for the ”SDAGE” implementa-
tion.
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Facilité pour l’Eau
INBO and IOWater have been helping
the Volta Basin Authority since 2012
through a capacity building project for
the implementation of its 2010-2014
Strategic Plan, with support from the
European Union, the French Deve-
lopment Agency, the French Seine-
Normandy and Adour-Garonne Water
Agencies.
The
VBA
Council of Ministers was held in
Lome, Togo, inMarch2014, before the Com-
mittee of Experts. During this statutory
meeting, the Ministers of the six Member
Countries could adopt resolutions, including
hiring experts to strengthen the team of the
VBA
Executive Branch, and provide more
resources to fulfill itsmission.
Amid-term reviewwas conducted in August
2014, which validated the orientations of the
project.
The next steps include a support to the
Strategic Plan and to the decision-
making support tool that accompanies
it, aswell as to theWater Charter of the
VoltaBasin.
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Capacity building of VBA Executive Branch
Participation in the AERM Basin Committee
Benin - Togo:
Mono River Basin
The International Office forWater
and
t
he Water-Solidarity Program
are
implementing a project that aims to help
the newMono Basin Authority,
to
build experts’ capacity and support plan-
ning for water resources management in
this transboundary basin, under the part-
nership started by
the Rhone-Mediter-
ranean-Corsica Water Agency
with
Benin and Togo.
The priority goal of this project is also to
facilitate the implementation of solidarity
projects under the French Law of 2005 on
decentralized cooperation in the field of
water and sanitation.
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As part of the support provided by the
Water Syndicate of Ile-de-France (SEDIF)
to the Water Company of Guinea
(SEG) under Decentralized Cooperation,
”SEDIF” entrusted IOWater with a mis-
sion to support the establishment of a
Geographic Information System (GIS) to
improve themanagement of structures.
“SEG” had a map of its networks, but it was
not completeanddidnot offer the functionality
of aGIS.
IOWater carriedout amission todevelop
aGISonaQGISbase for theConakryand
Kindiaarea.
The mission allowed georeferencing plans,
preparing the backgroundof quality plans and
converting existing data files and integrating
them into thedatabaseof thenewGIS.
Most part of the assignment was used for the
training of the GIS cell staff and the develop-
ment of newworkingprocedures.
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Guinea
Water Company of Guinea (SEG):
development of a newGIS
Presentation of the GIS software
