II. WIN Regional Workshop: Anglophone West Africa

Organised by: Ghana Integrity Network (GII) and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre

Sponsored by: Water Integrity Network (WIN)

This is workshop is part of a series of WIN-sponsored Regional Workshops being held in Latin America, South Asia, Francophone and Anglophone West Africa.

The Anglophone West Africa workshop focuses on different approaches for identifying and combating lack of transparency and accountability in the water and sanitation sector at the sectoral, institutional and community levels, involving the private and public sectors, civil society and the donor community. The objective is to share experience, both positive and negative, from projects in Anglophone West Africa and further afield. The reasons for the successes and possible approaches to overcoming failures will be presented and debated.

Themes:

• conceptual issues (what is transparency and accountability?), forms of corruption and the scale of impacts on service delivery
• methodologies and tools for diagnosing and combating lack of transparency and accountability in the water and sanitation sector
• the role of community management in promoting transparency and accountability
• strategies for stimulating transparency and accountability in the water and sanitation sector, including the role of alliances and networks between the public sector, the private sector, civil society and the donor community

A total of about 30 participants are expected with representation from each country (The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone) and from both water and anti-corruption sectors and across utility, NGOs, development partners and government.

Contact: Gilbert Sam, Ghana Integrity Initiative, gii@ghanatel.com.gh or Marieke Adank, IRC, The Netherlands, adank@irc.nl

- Location:

Accra, Ghana

- Date:

26 Sep 07 - 27 Sep 07