Summary

Regional Workshop to disseminate Water Supply and Sanitation Standards of Quality of

Service, adapted to LDCs

Preparation 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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Rural

Urban

PeriurbanDrinking 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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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

How is local contracting done?

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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 conductor’s 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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Thanks for your attention