I. WIN Regional Workshop: Francophone West Africa

Organised by: IRC - International Water and Sanitation Centre and Centre Régional pour l'Eau Potable et l'Assainissement à faible coût (CREPA)

Sponsored by: Water Integrity Network (WIN)

The Water Integrity Network (WIN), CREPA (a West African regional centre for water and sanitation) and the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre organized from 16 to 19 July 2007, a workshop on ‘Local governance: Transparency and accountability for WASH services’ in Burkina Faso. 60 participants from 15 West and Central Afri can countries representing municipalities, private water companies, transparency and WASH NGOs, participated and shared experiences, problems, ongoing activities and ideas between WASH and anti-corruption sector specialists with the objective to im prove local governance and water and sanitation service delivery. Participants dis cussed key issues in building systems of accountability and integrity and learnt about tools and approaches that have proved successful in other countries.

The participants intend to form a francophone working group on anti-corruption active ties in the WASH sector to take these discussions forward into concrete actions. One of the first proposed activities of this group is to produce case studies on how more transparency and accountability has been successful in delivering WASH services to meet peoples needs in various countries in the region.

Please download the full workshop report below.

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- Location:

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

- Date:

16 Jul 07 - 19 Jul 07