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

WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, July, ISO Workshop2 The Role and responsibility of African local authorities in water and sanitation management and the impacts of standardization Félix ADEGNIKA, Municipal Development Partnership

WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, July, ISO Workshop3 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

WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, July, ISO Workshop4 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

WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, July, ISO Workshop5 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

WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, July, ISO Workshop6 Rural Urban Periurban Drinking Water : Different level of services

WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, July, ISO Workshop7 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;

WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, July, ISO Workshop8  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?

WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, July, ISO Workshop9 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

WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, July, ISO Workshop10 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

WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, July, ISO Workshop11 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

WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, July, ISO Workshop12 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

WBI/InWEnt, Kampala, July, ISO Workshop13 Thanks for your attention