Coop dec Liban

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International Cooperation by the Greater Lyon
Councilin the Water Sector
AFD 02 February 2006
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I. International actions by the water department

• To contribute to reaching the Millennium
  Development Goals
• by 2015, halve the number of people in the world
  without access to safe water
• How?
• by providing funding to develop local
  infrastructure
• by sharing our experience to reinforce local
  management structures

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I. International actions by the water department

• A new legal framework The Oudin Law (2005)
• Local authorities responsible for providing
  public water and sanitation services can dedicate
  up to 1 of their water budget to decentralized
  co-operation, emergency aid or international
  solidarity actions in the field of water and
  sanitation.

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I. International actions by the water department

• Specific Budgets
• From 2006 0.4 of water and sanitation
  revenues, i.e. nearly 500 000 / year used for
  two distinct types of action
• Capacity building in partner towns via
  decentralized cooperation programs (200 000)
• Financing of infrastructure via an International
  Solidarity Fund for Water (300 000)

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II. The Solidarity Fund for Water

• Creation in 2003 of a Fund fed by equal
  contributions by the Véolia and the Grand Lyon
  (Greater Lyon Council), with an upper limit of
  300 000 euros / year.
• Objectives To develop the infrastructure
  providing access to water and sanitation.
• To finance projects led by local NGOs (funding
  agreements)

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II. The Solidarity Fund for Water

• A steering committee
• Defines strategic orientations
• Validates funding agreements
• A Technical committee
• Selects the projects to be financed according to
  specific criteria effective needs, technical
  pertinence, sustainability etc.
• Monitors and assesses project implementation and
  use of funds.

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II. The Solidarity Fund for Water

• Projects in 2005
• Madagascar (Fianarantsoa, Mahajunga) Drinking
  water and sanitation systems
• Burkina Faso (Komsilga, Boura) Drinking water
  boreholes
• Morocco (Tanger, Tarroundant)  Drinking water
  connections and sanitation network for schools
• Moldavia (town of Balti) Restoration of networks

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III. Decentralized cooperation programs

• Background
• 1999 signing of the first decentralized
  cooperation agreement on water with the Water
  Offices of Beirut
• 2003 extension of the cooperation agreement to
  three other water establishments
• 2006 beginning of cooperation with Madagascar

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III. Decentralized cooperation programs

• Legal Framework
• Decentralized cooperation agreement signed
  between the water department and a foreign local
  authority responsible for public water services.
• Objectifs
• To reinforce the capacities of the public water
  services to improve the quality of services
  provided to the users.

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III. Decentralized cooperation programs

• Resources
• Political management of programs by the water VP
• Implementation of programs managed by the Water
  Department
• Exchange of experience, training and technical
  support provided by employees of the water
  department.
• Missions in the field and visits in Lyon
• Presence of a permanent representative in the
  field to coordinate the program locally.

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III. Decentralized cooperation programs

• Principles underlying actions
• Ensure that projects are appropriated by local
  partners principle of partnership, not direct
  financing, exchange rather than knowledge
  transfer, long-term relationships.
• Mobilize a network of players, act in agreement
• Find complementarity with bilateral cooperation
• Capitalize on lessons learned

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III. Decentralized cooperation programs

• Programs underway
• LEBANON Support in capacity building of
  Lebanese public water establishments
• MADAGASCAR Building the capacities of public
  water players and application of Madagascars
  water code in the Fianarantsoa region.
• Project accepted for financing by the European
  Unions WaterFacility
• and occasional interventions by the water
  department in programs run by other departments
  of the Greater Lyon Council.

-gt Maximum three programs.