Launch in Rabat regional AMCOW regional consultations for North Africa
This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
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The regional consultations of the Board of African Water Ministers (AMCOW) for North Africa opened on Tuesday April 08 in Rabat, with the participation, face -to -face and distance, representatives of the Member States.
This meeting, of which Morocco ensures the vice-president for the 2025-2027 mandate, aims to collect preliminary proposals and recommendations on priority issues linked to water and sanitation, both under subregional and continental scale.
During the opening session, the Minister of Equipment and Water, Nizar Baraka, reaffirmed Morocco’s commitment to bring “substantial added value” during his North African vice-president of AMCOW, stressing the need for a “constructive and concerted contribution” to achieve the common objectives of the continent.
“This meeting takes on a strategic character since it aims to highlight the priorities and to discuss the specificities of the sub-region, to take into account in the formulation of the African vision,” said Mr. Baraka in a speech read in his name by the Secretary General of the Ministry, Abdelfattah Sahibi, noting that the conclusions will feed the work of the 3rd African Conference Partnership (Panafcon-3), scheduled for May 27 to 29, 2025 in Lusaka (Zambia).
As part of the development of the African Post-2015 Water Vision, Mr. Baraka has focused on key elements that must be taken into account. According to the Minister, it is a question of carrying out an assessment of the current vision before projecting the future, of adopting a common vision integrating the specificities of the five African sub-retrosses, by closely connecting the challenges of water and sanitation.
Added to it, continued Mr. Baraka, the establishment of strategic, inclusive and coordinated governance, involving all stakeholders, with particular attention to gender and youth issues, in addition to responding to the insufficiency of investments for the management of water resources and propose suitable solutions.
It is also a question of reflecting collectively on financing methods, by promoting alternative funding and the transfer of technologies without conditionality, faced with an estimated need for $ 64 billion per year, as well as encouraging research and development and better collaboration between public institutions and the academic world, he said.
For his part, the executive secretary of the AMCOW, Rashid Mbazira, praised the “crucial” role of these consultations in the development of an African water policy aligned with the 2063 agenda of the African Union.
“Sustainable management of water resources and WASH solutions (water, sanitation, hygiene) is essential to materialize our socio-economic ambitions,” he said, calling for collective mobilization to maximize long-term profits.
Organized until April 10, this meeting is part of the prospect of developing an African vision of post-2025 water, adapted to the needs of African countries and respectful of the specificities of each sub-region.
