Local Strategies and Policies Sessions
SOU-93 | LAUNCH OF A NETWORK OF AFRICAN LOCAL AUTHORITIES COMMITTED TO THE RECOGNITION OF ON-SHELF SANITATION
19 May
14:30 to 18:00
Venue: Room 3
LEAD ORGANIZER
PRESENTATION OF THE SESSION
| Since 2020, YCID has been advocating for the recognition of the role of local authorities in the management of autonomous sanitation. On the occasion of the 9th World Water Forum (Dakar, March 2022), this plea obtained an important echo and the support of key players in the sector such as the African Water Association (AAE / AfWA ), the Gates Foundation, the French Water Partnership, but also from several representatives of national associations of African local authorities. In this context, it seems essential to put the theme of sanitation at the heart of the debates that will be held at Africities and to encourage the support of all the local authorities on the continent by setting up a network of elected officials and local actors committed to the recognition of non-collective sanitation. Non-collective sanitation is largely predominant in sub-Saharan Africa. 78.6% of the urban population and 72% of the African rural population use this mode of sanitation. The main challenge is therefore to promote the structuring of autonomous public sanitation services managed in a sustainable manner by local authorities. - At the national level, the aim is to allow local authorities to have access to all the financial, human and material resources necessary to manage these services. - At the level of the African continent, it is a question of reinforcing the exchange of experiences between local actors by constituting a network of elected officials. - At the international level, it is a question of promoting the action of this network and promoting autonomous sanitation as a response to the SDGs. This session will address all the key issues related to this issue of on-site sanitation: the formalization of the sector, the collection of fees, the modernization of emptying truck fleets, the awareness-raising strategies to be implemented, treatment devices and recovery of by-products. The main objectives of this session are: - to provide a response to SDG 6 and targets 6.2 and 6.3, by promoting non-collective sanitation, - to create a network of local elected Africans committed to the recognition of this type of sanitation. The session will begin with an inventory of the situation of autonomous sanitation in Africa, which will be followed by feedback from African local elected officials on the issue, highlighting in particular the interest of decentralized cooperation. Then, a time of debate will be organized in order to structure the bases of this network of African elected representatives entitled “ AfricaSpanc ”, which would be integrated into the UCLG-Africa organization. The session will end with the elaboration of recommendations and the adoption of a common charter. This session therefore intends to bring together all the representatives of national associations of local authorities on the continent. The constitution of this network and the recognition of the role of local authorities will make it possible to provide a concrete and concerted response to the challenges of the 2030 Agenda and the 2063 Agenda of the African Union. This network will facilitate the sharing of experiences and capacity building among local elected officials. Intermediary cities must necessarily take into account this issue of sanitation in order to consider sustainable city and territory projects and make their voice heard within the AfricaSpanc network. |
PANEL
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Chairperson
Emile Gros Raymond Nakombo
Mayor of Bangui
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Rapporteur
Jeanne Ruffin
Policy Officer, Advocacy
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Facilitator
Jean Marie Tétart
Mayor of Houdan, Former President of the concils of Houdanais
Programme
Summary
Speakers
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Alexi Aquereburu
Mayor Aneho, Togo
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Ambassador Dr Mohamed HIGAZY
Director of the North Africa Office of UCLG Africa
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Cllr Innocent UWIMANA
Vice-President East Africa of UCLG-A, President of the Association of Local Authorities of Rwanda
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Emile Gros Raymond Nakombo
Mayor of Bangui
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Jean Marie Tétart
Mayor of Houdan, Former President of the concils of Houdanais
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Jean Pierre Elong Mbassi
General Secretary of United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLG Africa)
Mr Jean Pierre Elong Mbassi has been the Secretary General of United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLG Africa) since 2007. He was Chairman of the Cities Alliance Interim Management Board until April 2016. He is also Co-Chairman of the World Cities Scientific Development Alliance (WCSDA), and Deputy Secretary General of the China-Africa Forum of Local Authorities. Mr Elong Mbassi is the man behind the Africities Summits, the most important event of African cities, regions and local authorities, which he has overseen since the first edition in 1998. Mr. Elong Mbassi has nearly 40 years of experience in urban development and land use planning, urban services, local economic development, local community governance, housing and slum restructuring. From 1996 to 1999, he was the very first Secretary General of the World Association of Cities and Local Authorities Coordination (WACLAC), at the same time as he was Secretary General of the Municipal Development Partnership (MDP) from 1992 to 2006. Previously, from 1981 to 1991, Mr. Elong Mbassi was the director of the first urban project co-financed by the World Bank in Cameroon, which focused on the restructuring and development of an unhealthy housing area of 300,000 inhabitants in the city of Douala. Mr. Elong Mbassi began his professional career in Paris, France, where he was a researcher and then a project manager at the Cooperation and Development Agency from 1973 to 1980.
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Jean-Jacques YAPO
Director General of the Union of Cities and Municipalities of Côte d'Ivoire (UVICOCI)
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Juliet MEKONE SALE
Director of the West Africa Regional Office of UCLG Africa
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Luc ATROKPO
President of the National Association of Municipalities of Benin (ANCB)
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Mbaye MBEGUERE
Senior Sanitation Program Coordinator, in charge of the SAO-CIWIS project, African Water Association (AWA)
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Saturnin DANSOU
President of GI-Mono (Benin)
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Yawa A. KOUIGAN
President of the Ridges of Communes of Togo (FCT), Mayor of Atakpamé (Togo)
KEY QUESTIONS TO BE DEBATED
BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS
GALLERY
Parallel Sessions
- 9:30 to 18:00 JOU-07 | Intermediary And Inclusive Cities: What Places For Young African People? Venue: Hall B
- 14:30 to 18:00 JOU-02-C | CLIMATE DAY – CoM SSA Venue: Room C
- 14:30 to 18:00 SPO-07| AFRICA FINET GENERAL ASSEMBLY Venue: Room 5
- 14:30 to 18:00 SOU-43 |INTEGRATED FRAMEWORKS TO ACHIEVE ALL INCLUSIVE INTERMEDIARY CITIES; POLICY AND LEGISLATION Venue: Room 1
- 14:30 to 18:00 SOU-84 | CARRYING OUT CROSS-BORDER DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS OR PROJECTS WITH A CROSS-BORDER IMPACT WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES: THE INTEGRATED CROSS-BORDER DEVELOPMENT SCHEME (SATI) Venue: Room 4
- 14:30 to 18:00 SOU-14| PARTNERSHIPS FOR LOCAL DEMOCRACY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN SWEDEN AND AFRICA – STORIES AND OPPORTUNITIES Venue: Room 5
- 14:30 to 18:00 SOU-15 | PREVENTION OF CRIME AMONG YOUTH THROUGH LEVERAGING ON ALTERNATIVE LIVELIHOODS IN INTERMEDIARY CITIES Venue: Room 6
- 14:30 to 18:00 SOU-16 | RISK INFORMED URBAN DEVELOPMENT: TERRITORIAL GOVERNANCE SCHEMES FOR ADDRESSING SYSTEMIC RISKS IN INTERMEDIARY CITIES Venue: Room 7
- 14:30 to 18:00 SOU-01 | THE AFRICA TERRITORIAL AGENCY, VEHICLE FOR FINANCING CITIES AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN AFRICA Venue: Room 8
- 14:30 to 18:00 SOU-105 | IMPROVING THE RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN CITIES TO CLIMATE RISKS Venue: Room 9
- 14:30 to 18:00 SOU-75 | ACCESS TO SUSTAINABLE ENERGY IN AFRICAN CITIES Venue: Room 10
- 14:30 to 18:00 SOU-73 | MAYORS FORUM ON AFRICAN CITIES FOR CLEAN AIR Venue: Room 11
- 14:30 to 18:00 SOU-111 | VALUE CHAIN OPPORTUNITIES AT MUNICIPAL LEVEL Venue: Salon (Kisumu)
- 14:30 to 18:00 SOU-62 | SUSTAINABLE FINANCING OF BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES IN AFRICAN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS Venue: Room 12
- 14:30 to 16:00 SOU-65 | PUBLIC PRIVATE PEOPLE PARTNERSHIPS (PPPs) AND SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AS VEHICLES FOR PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENT IN INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS: PRESENTING AN INNOVATIVE PPPP FROM KISUMU, KENYA Venue: Room 13
- 14:30 to 18:00 SOU-65| QUALITY URBANIZATION AND HEALTH FOR ALL IN INTERMEDIARY CITIES IN AFRICA Venue: Room 12
- 14:30 to 18:00 SOU-115 | OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE CENTRE ON THE AFRICAN PUBLIC SPACES “INCLUSIVE, SAFE, ACCESSIBLE AND VIBRANT AFRICAN CITIES WITH QUALITY CONTEXT-SENSITIVE PUBLIC SPACES AT THE HEART OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT” Venue: Room 14
- 14:30 to 18:00 SOU-24| TERRITORIAL COACHING: A MOBILIZING AND EFFECTIVE APPROACH FOR HUMAN RESOURCES IN TERRITORIAL AUTHORITIES Venue: Room 15
- 14:30 to 18:00 SOU-28| EXPERIENCE OF COCODY AS A MODEL OF A COSMOPOLITAN COMMUNE Venue: Room 16
- 14:30 to 18:30 SOU-86-A | INCLUSIVE URBAN WASTE MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE Venue: Room 17
- 14:30 to 18:00 SOU-86-B | URBAN ECONOMIC GROWTH IN AFRICA: A CASE STUDY OF NAIROBI CITY, KENYA Venue: Room 17
- 14:30 to 18:00 SOU-11 | PROMOTION OF DOING GOOD AND VOLUNTEERING FOR SUSTAINABLE GROWTH OF AFRICA CITIES” & GOOD DEEDS DAY NETWORKING DINNER Venue: Room 18
- 14:30 to 18:00 SOU-68 | THE JUST CITY Venue: Room 19
- 14:30 to 18:00 SOU-96 | AFRICAN SOCIAL HOUSING FORUM: IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON ACCESS TO SOCIAL HOUSING Venue: Room 20
- 14:00 to 15:00 SOU-13 | AIR QUALITY IN AFRICAN CITIES PUBLICATION LAUNCH Venue: UN-Habitat
- 14:30 to 18:00 SOU-08 |TEST TRAINING ON THE INTRODUCTORY MODULE ON “THE ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION OF TERRITORIES” Venue: The UCLG Africa Stand
- 16:30 to 18:00 SOU-21 | TRIPARTITE PARTNERSHIP FOR NETWORKING FOR PSUP PARTNERSHIP TO ACHIEVE SDG 11 AND NEW URBAN AGENDA IN SLUMS AND INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS Venue: Exhibition
- 14:30 to 18:00 JOU-06/ SOU-78 | GENDER EQUALITY Venue: Hall A
- 9:30 to 18:00 JOU-01 | Urban Planning Day Venue: Room 3