Regional Workshop to disseminate Water Supply and Sanitation Standards of Quality of Service, adapte

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Regional Workshop to disseminate Water Supply and
Sanitation Standards of Quality of Service,
adapted to LDCsPreparation to the ISO TC 224
Draft Standards test in Africa.
WBI/InWEnt/AFWA/NWSC WORKSHOP KAMPALA (UGANDA),
JULY 24-27, 2007
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• The Role and responsibility of African local
  authorities in water and sanitation management
  and the impacts of standardization
• Félix ADEGNIKA, Municipal Development Partnership

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Summary

• The role and responsibilities of local
  authorities in the management of WSS
• Current context and repositioning of local
  authorities
• Building a favourable environment for a improved
  involvement of local authorities in the
  management of WSS

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The role and responsibilities of African local
government

• Legitimacy and legality of local authorities in
  the management of WSS elective legitimacy,
  popular legitimacy and institutional legitimacy
• Moral and political obligations assume legal
  competences, and meet the expectations of the
  populations service to all strata and on the
  entire local territory

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Various contexts and levels of water and
sanitation services in a local territory

• Urban areas conventional network system,
  contractor with quasi-monopoly coverage for
  credit-worthy populations, desertion of the
  peripheries and irregular areas
• Rural areas relatively low standard of services
  with hardly motivated public operators and small
  voluntary private operators approximate quality
  of services
• Urban peripheries alternative systems initiated
  by small scale operators bad quality of services

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Drinking Water Different level of services
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How is the local contracting done?

• In urban areas forced absence (monopoly by the
  contractor) or voluntary (inadequacy of technical
  and financial capacities) of municipal action
• In rural areas local authorities initiate
  investments, mobilization of financial resources,
  construction of infrastructures, but with often
  conflicting relations with the other
  stakeholders

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How is local contracting done?

• In urban peripheries weak local initiatives,
  intervention of badly coordinated multiple
  stakeholders
• Local appreciation in value contracting,
  planning, regulation, quality control, approval
  based on a global vision negotiated with all the
  stakeholders operating in the system

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What is expected of the local authority in the
improvement process of WSS

• Local authority, facilitator of a dialogue
  process involving all stakeholders in the sector
  (utilities, small scale operators, users,
  consumers)
• Local authority, unifier of all the local forms
  of demands, in terms of improvement in access to
  drinking water and sanitation
• Local authorities, mobilizing and coordinator of
  all the local forms of supply in view of
  improving them

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Application context of governance standards of WSS

• Decentralisation process that promotes taking
  charge of WSS closer to the people with a
  conductors role recognized and accepted by all
  the other stakeholders
• Lack of WSS quality assessment tool at the level
  of institutional stakeholders as well as the
  beneficiaries of services
• Lack of user information mechanisms on the
  discontinuities of services and billing
• Lack of contractual relationships between
  institutional stakeholders and informal
  stakeholders for an improved quality of WSS

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New approaches for the involvement of local
authorities

• Elaboration and implementation of concerted local
  strategy which will lead to the signing of
  partnership agreements between different
  stakeholders operating in the sector
• Setting up tools and capacity building for the
  assessment and follow up of local contracting,
  particularly conventions and partnerships with
  stakeholders working in the sector
• Ratification of TC 224 standardization process

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Conclusion

• In the current context of WSS governance,
  normalisation could be an opportunity and one of
  the entry points for the re-involvement of
  African local authorities in a sector they
  willingly or unwillingly abandoned
• The sites selected for the tests have the
  responsibility to ensure the success of these
  tests by putting in place the best conditions for
  their implementation

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