Sustainable, efficient and equitable management of water in cities has never been as important as in today's world. Achieving important internationally agreed goals - in a sustainable manner - including the Millennium Development Goals in developing country cities, requires that we do better than we have in the past. It requires that we institutionalize and act upon lessons learnt in the arena of urban water management and urban development. Capacities to make change happen in water are typically diffused between many different stakeholders including the different publics in our cities. Therefore, increasingly coming to the forefront are the holistic approaches, methods and skills needed to enable successful cooperation and collaboration, including those communication techniques which enable stakeholders to improve their performance, exchange knowledge, views and preferences and act collectively with a feasible vision of the future, promoting effective implementation.

Presentations made during The 15th International Africa Water and Sanitation Congress and Exhibition are available online

Documentación general del proyecto Euroclima: incluye la agenda de la reunión de lanzamiento del proyecto EUROCLIMA-Agua, la Declaración de Lima 2008, y una descripción general del programa Euroclima.

En el adjunto se encuentran: la ficha descriptiva del proyecto y la Agenda del lanzamiento del proyecto en Quito.

Lancement du reseau Ouest des centres d'Excellence - Reunion pour definir un plan de travail pour le network

Trouvez ci joint les presentations faites durant la reunion

Launching meeting of the western African network of centres of excellence - meeting for discussing on the Business plan of the network

Please find enclosed the presentation made the meeting and the agenda

Over 1.3 million people have been affected by the drought which started in 2006, according to the UN. Last month UN Special Rapporteur Oliver de Schutter said 2-3 million people had been pushed into extreme poverty in Syria, with many thousands having left the northeast region for the cities, with no source of income.

Executive Summary

In developing countries, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) practitioners need a way to choose among the numerous available options for securing safe water and sanitation. Effectively addressing community needs requires that technologies or approaches be economically, ecologically, and socially appropriate and sustainable. Decision-making support tools help address this need, guiding practitioners to the most appropriate water and sanitation solutions.

QuODA is an assessment of the Quality of Official Development Assistance provided by 23 countries and more than 150 aid countries. It uses 30 indicators in four dimension that reflect the international consensus of what constitutes high-quality aid:

• Maximizing efficiency
• Fostering institutions
• Reducing Burden
• Transparency and Learning

This report helps fill the research gap on what might be called aid agency effectiveness by concentrating on measures over which the official donor agencies have control. The universe to date for the study includes the 23 countries that are members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the OECD. They provided aid amounting to $120 billion in 2009 through 156 bilateral and 263 multilateral agencies.

How's your water? Share knowledge and explore solutions to ensure momentum and continuityof water developments up to and beyond 2015. This conference is the product of teamwork between ADB and many water partners that have contributed ideas, effort, and resources to plan a better water future for the Asia and Pacific region.

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