9:00 - 17:00
Arrival and Registration
19:00 - 21:00
AfricaSan7 Welcome Reception
7:00 - 9:00
Registration
9:00 - 9:05
Anthems
9:05 - 9:10
Short film about Namibia and video presentation the AfricaSan movement
9:10 - 9:15
Welcome speech by Governor of Erongo Region, Hon. Neville Andre
9:15 - 9:20
Introductory Statement: Dr Rashid Mbaziira, AMCOW Executive Secretary
9:20 - 9:25
Unveiling of AfricaSan7 Banner by Gov. Neville Andre supported by Hon. Carl Hermann Gustav Schlettwein
9:25 - 9:40
Thematic Interventions
9:40 - 9:50
Cultural entertainment
9:50 - 10:05
Thematic Interventions
10:05 - 10:15
Updates on global engagements
10:15 - 10:25
Goodwill Remarks
10:25 - 10:35
Conference Keynote, African Union Commission represented by Director, Sustainable Environment and Blue Economy, Mr. Harsen Nyambe
10:35 - 10:45
Video presentation on the AfricaSan movement and the 2023 Ngor report
10:45 - 11:55
Panel discussion - Leveraging progress from the 2023 report on the implementation of the AfricaSan Ngor Commitments to catalyse action on safely managed sanitation and hygiene: AfDB, ESAWAS, PASA | Senegal, Egypt, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, South Sudan (Moderators: Hon. Bai-Mass Taal, Ms Sareen Malik) Panellists: AfDB, ESAWAS, PASA, Govts of Senegal, Egypt, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, South Sudan
12:00 - 12:10
Opening address: Hon Carl Hermann Gustav Schlettwein, Minister for Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform, Republic of Namibia, AWF Governing Council Chair Person
12:45 - 13:45
Lunch break
12:45 - 13:45
Side events
14:00 - 16:00
AfricaSan Country Dialogue (The Enablers)
Western Africa Region – Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote D’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
Venue: Meeting Room 1
Northern and Central Africa Region – Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Sahrawi, Tunisia, Burundi, Cameroon, Central Africa Republic, Chad, Congo Republic, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe
Venue: Meeting Room 2
Southern Africa Region – Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Venue: Meeting Room 3
Eastern Africa Region – Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
Venue: Meeting Room 4
16:15 - 18:15
Pleanary - Local Authority Sector dialogue (The Implementers)
18:15 - 19:15
Side events
7:30 - 9:00
Side events
9:00 - 10:30
Technical Sessions (TS)
ST1 S1 – Public Private Partnership a vehicle to achieve inclusive sanitation service delivery – A case of Lusaka Water Supply and Sanitation Company
Convenor: Lusaka Water Supply and Sanitation Company (LWSC)
Venue: Meeting Room 1
ST2 S1 – What is Climate Resilient Sanitation (CRS)? Evidence and action from the CRS coalition
Convener: CRS Coalition Member
Venue: Meeting Room 2
ST3 S1 – Sanitation financing for increased access to improved household sanitation: A case of Blantyre City, Malawi
Convener: Water For People
Venue: Meeting Room 3
ST4 S1 – No Delivery without Jobs: A Roadmap to ensuring HR capacity for rural sanitation and hygiene
Convener: USAID with WaterAid, AMCOW
Venue: Meeting Room 4
ST5 S1 – The African Sanitation Leaders Program: A program for Public Sector Leaders
Convener: NIYEL
Venue: Meeting Room 5
ST1 S2 – eGov’s DIGIT Sanitation: impact of a DPI for Sanitation in Orissa and Punjab States of India
Convener:: eGovernments Foundation
Venue: Meeting Room 6
ST3 S2 – Attracting climate financing to bridge the sanitation challenge
Convener: AfDB/AWF
Venue: Meeting Room 7
10:30 - 11:00
Tea Break
11:00 - 13:00
Plenary
Civil Society Dialogue (The Advocates) Featuring outcomes from country and local authority dialogues
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Technical Sessions (TS)
ST1 S3 – Reimagining private sector engagement in sanitation
Convener: UNICEF with PSI, Clean Nigeria
Venue: Meeting Room 1
ST2 S2 – Using data to inform sanitation planning, advocacy and policy formulation in LMICs
Convener: Athena Infonomics with Kampala Capital City Authority, Water for People, National Water and Sewerage Corporation, Ministry of Water and Environment
Venue: Meeting Room 2
ST5 S9 – Capacity development and knowledge sharing at the core of AfWASA support to the implementation of the Africa WASH vision 2025
Convener: AFWASA
Venue: Meeting Room 3
ST4 S2 – Developing strong hand hygiene systems in Africa
Convener: WaterAid with Global Handwashing Partnership, UNICEF, WHO
Venue: Meeting Room 4
ST5 S2 – Moving from evidence to action and change: The costs of Inaction in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Namibia
Convener: UNICEF
Venue: Meeting Room 5
ST1 S4 – Public-private partnership business models for faecal sludge management (FSM) services in rural markets
Convener: USAID/Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Partnerships and Learning for Sustainability #2 project
Venue: Meeting Room 6
ST4 S3 – Bridging the Divide: Advancing Gender Equality, Positioning Youth, and Amplifying Social Inclusion in Sanitation Policy and Practice
Convener: African Renaissance Trust, AMCOW & African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) with A U Women, Gender & Youth Directorate; SADC Parliamentary Forum; African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights; and BMGF
Venue: Meeting Room 7
15:45 - 17:15
Technical Sessions (TS)
ST1 S5 – Public-Private Partnerships to Strengthen Market Systems to Deliver Safely Managed Sanitation for all
Convener: UNICEF with LIXIL
Venue: Meeting Room 1
ST2 S3 – Re-imagining power, partnerships & parity in SAN-policies through people-centered & rights based metrics
Convener: African Renaissance Trust & African Population & Health Research Centre with ACHPRights; AU Women, Gender & Youth Directorate; PASA; SADC Parliamentary Forum; MAZIDO Community NGO; WASHVoice; and BMGF
Venue: Meeting Room 2
ST3 S4 – Strengthening the regulatory role in sanitation financing framework for effective resource planning and management.
Convener: ESAWAS Regulators Association with African Development Bank
Venue: Meeting Room 3
ST4 S4 – Incentivising adoption and sustaining good sanitation and hygiene behaviour practices-experiences from Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique and Burundi
Convener: SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
Venue: Meeting Room 4
ST5 S3 – Accelerating the achievement of SDG 6 by strenghtening non-sewer sanitation in the education, training and research system
Convener: ONAS (Sénégal), AfWASA
Venue: Meeting Room 5
ST1 S6 – Why flush with 9L when you can flush with 2L? The innovative sanitation solutions that we urgently need to embrace
Convener: Envirosan Sanitation Solutions with Brian Lewis
Venue: Meeting Room 6
ST2 S4 – Policy to practice: System strengthening for sustainable implementation of revised sanitation policies with ASPG
Convener: WaterAid with BMGF, Speak Up Africa, Niyel
Venue: Meeting Room 7
17:20 - 18:30
Side events
7:30 - 9:00
Side events
9:00 - 10:30
Technical Sessions (TS)
ST1 S7 – Partnering for Scaling up City Wide Inclusive Sanitation
Convener: The World Bank
Venue: Meeting Room 1
ST2 S5 – Creating an enabling environment to accelerate access to water, sanitation, and hygiene in Africa
Convener: Pan African Association of Sanitation Actors (PASA), AFWASA, with Kenya Private Sector Sanitation Actors, Sheer Sanition LTD, Varet Products, African Rennaisance
Venue: Meeting Room 2
ST5 S4 – Affordable Offset Sanitation Systems for Safely Managed Sanitation in Peri-Urban and Rural Communities
Convener: LIXIL/SATO with SIL Africa Limited
Venue: Meeting Room 5
ST1 S8 – Public-private partnerships for sustainable feacal sludge management services in urban areas: Case of Blantyre City
Convener: Water for People
Venue: Meeting Room 6
ST2 S6 – Strengthening government-led systems for equitable and accelerated delivery of safely managed sanitation services
Convener: UNICEF with WaterAid, AMCOW, BMGF
Venue: Meeting Room 7
10:30 - 11:00
Tea Break
11:00 - 13:00
Plenary
Development partners dialogue - (The Facilitators) Featuring outcomes from Country and Local Authority dialogue and civil society organization
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Technical Sessions (TS)
ST2 S14 – Government and stakeholder engagements for improving the sanitation enabling environment
Convener: Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform of Namibia
Venue: Meeting Room 1
ST2 S7 – Sanitation Systems Strengthening – Exploring Experiences of National Data Monitoring System Development for Safely Managed Sanitation in Kenya
Convener: UNICEF with Ministry of Health Kenya; Doyle B Leonard, Beverly Mademba, USAID Kenya
Venue: Meeting Room 2
ST3 S6 – Financing challenges and solutions from WASEU’s implementation under the CWIS programme
Convener: Water and Sanitation Entrepreneurs Association (WASEU) with SIMAVI
Venue: Meeting Room 3
ST4 S6 – Hygiene Behaviour Change to prevent and respond health emergencies: learnings from hygiene response to COVID19
Convener: WaterAid UK with Ministry of Health from two countries, and LSHTM
Venue: Meeting Room 4
ST5 S5 – Making the invisible visible and beyond- Experiences from mobilisation of Sanitation Workers in African cities
Convener: SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
Venue: Meeting Room 5
ST1 S10 – Fecal sludge management and elimination of open defecation
Convener: UNICEF
Venue: Meeting Room 6
ST2 S8 – Market-based sanitation and inclusion: experiences of USAID Transform WASH in Ethiopia
Convener: USAID Transform WASH / IRC WASH with Ministry of Health Ethiopia
Venue: Meeting Room 7
13:00 - 16:00
Side event: African Water Facility Governing Council Technical Session
14:00 - 17:00
Side event: WASA-BMBF Pre Governing Board meeting
15:45 - 17:15
Technical Sessions (TS)
ST1 S11 – Reimagining sanitation management through circular economy approaches
Convener: International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Venue: Meeting Room 1
ST2 S9 – Transforming Sanitation Governance: Effective Policies and Institutional Arrangements through Stakeholder Engagement
Convener: Fresh Life (Sanergy Collaborative with Ministry of Water, Sanitation & Irrigation (MoWSI), Africa Population & Health Research Center (APHRC)
Venue: Meeting Room 2
ST3 S7 – Mobilizing local resources for safely managed sanitation in Zambia
Convener: UNICEF
Venue: Meeting Room 3
ST4 S7 – How do we make hygiene and behavior change inclusive and sustainable?
Convener: African Population and Health Research Center and AMREF Health Africa
Venue: Meeting Room 4
ST3 S8 – Is the level of Sanitation Investment adequate to meet SDG goals by 2030? A Case study from Tanzania WSDP III
Convener: Water for People with WaterAid
Venue: Meeting Room 5
ST1 S12 – Citywide Inclusive Sanitation: The Role of the Urban Planning Department in Sanitation Services Improvement.
Convener: UN-Habitat with IWA, UNICEF and ESAWAS
Venue: Meeting Room 6
ST5 S6 – Practical Application of Market-Based Solutions for Improved Sanitation: Lessons from USAID Transform WASH
Convener: Population Services International with USAID Transform WASH
Venue: Meeting Room 7
17:20 - 18:20
Side events
7:30 - 9:00
Side events
9:00 - 10:30
Technical Sessions (TS)
ST1 S13 – How to Maximize Existing Market Potential and enabling environment for FSM in African Cities
Convener: Water for People with Kampala Capital City Authority, Water.Org, GIZ
Venue: Meeting Room 1
ST2 S10 – Preparation of National Guidelines on Health, Safety and Dignity of Sanitation Workers in Tanzania
Convener: The World Bank with Ministry of Health, Tanzania, Water Aid and SNV
Venue: Meeting Room 2
ST3 S5 – Strengthening Political Will and Investor Confidence Through Circular, Data-Enabled Public Sanitation Systems
Convener: Organized Private Sector in Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (OPS WASH)
Venue: Meeting Room 3
ST3 S9 – Advancing sanitation finance in Africa
Convener: WHO, UNICEF, AMCOW
Venue: Meeting Room 4
ST3 S9 – Bridging Access to Sanitation and HygieAne Financing: The Synergy of Financial Literacy and Behaviour Change Communication
Convener: WASTE NL / FINISH Mondial
Venue: Meeting Room 5
10:30 - 11:00
Tea Break
11:00 - 13:00
Plenary
Private Sector - (Our Target) Culminate discussions from all dialogue sessions
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
13:00 - 15:00
Side event: Africa Water Facility Governing Council
14:00 - 15:30
Technical Sessions (TS)
ST5 S9 – E-Research, a channel for the common good of endogenous knowledge in Africa
Convener: ATSE Kambo Martial with Think Do Pan-African African Young Researchers Network (RAJeC)
Venue: Meeting Room 1
ST2 S11 – Decision Support Tools for Sanitation Policymaking: Approach and Practical Application
Convener: USAID/Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Partnerships and Learning for Sustainability #2 project with USAID/Transform WASH Ethiopia project
Venue: Meeting Room 2
ST3 S10 – Financing Sanitation and Hygiene in Public Places; Possibilities and Challenges of Zambia’s Constituency Development Fund
Convener: WaterAid Zambia
Venue: Meeting Room 3
15:45 - 17:15
Technical Sessions (TS)
ST5 S10 – Présentation du programme de renforcement de capacités en gestion des boues de vidange et en assainissement urbain inclusif (CWIS) en Afrique francophone de l’Ouest et du Centre (ISC-Hub)
Convener: Inclusive Sanitation Capacity Hub (ISC-Hub) – Université Félix-Houphouët-Boigny (UFHB) with Institut International d’Ingénierie de l’Eau et de l’Environnement (2iE)
Venue: Meeting Room 1
ST2 S12 – Mainstreaming gender in sanitation: what do we really mean?
Convener: WATERAID & UNICEF
Venue: Meeting Room 2
ST2 S13 – Achieving SDG Target 6.2 in Eastern and Southern Africa: learnings from the Implementation of the National Sanitation Strategy in Mozambique and beyond
Convener: Ministry of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources (MOPHRH), Mozambique with UNICEF
Venue: Meeting Room 3
ST4 S8 – From Strategy to Action – fast tracking the implementation of the SADC Hygiene Strategy 2021 to 2025: Lessons from SADC Member States
Convener: WaterAid SARO with SADC Directorate, UNICEF ESARO, SADC Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Madagascar
Venue: Meeting Room 4
19:00 - 21:00
High Level Gala Dinner And Africasan Award Ceremony
Chair: Hon. Carl Hermann Gustav Schlettwein, Minister for Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform, Republic of Namibia
8:00 - 9:00
Arrival
9:00 - 9:05
Short film on Namibia
9:05 - 9:10
Introductory statement: Dr Rashid Mbaziira, AMCOW Executive Secretary
9:10 - 9:15
Welcome Statement by Hon. Carl Hermann Gustav Schlettwein, Minister for Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform, Republic of Namibia / AWF Governing Council Chairperson, AMCOW President (2021-2023)
9:15 - 9:20
Statement by AMCOW President, Prof Dr Hani Sewilam, Minister for Water Resources and Irrigation Arab Republic Egypt
9:20 - 9:25
Address by H E Amb Josefa Leonel Correla Sacko, Commissioner Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy, and Sustainable Environment (ARBE), African Union Commission (AUC)
9:25 - 9:30
The 2023 Ngor Report on Sanitation and Hygiene
9:30 - 10:00
Highlights from the Technical Sessions and Dialogues
10:00 - 10:30
Presentation of the annotated agenda - outcomes from subtheme coordinators, sector and country dialogue by Mrs Ndiyakupi Nghituwamata, Executive Director, Ministry of Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform, Republic of Namibia /AMCOW TAC
10:30 - 11:00
High Level Ministerial Interventions on Conference Outcomes Recommendations, and Proposed Decisions
AfricaSan 7 Conference Closing Plenary - Director of Ceremony: Dr T E Ngurare
Arrival of the Host Government Guest of Honour
11:00 - 11:10
Cultural entertainment
11:10 - 11:30
Host Government Guest of Honour and Ministerial Tour of Conference Exhibition
11:30 - 11:35
Anthems
11:35 - 11:40
Poetry and Spoken Word
11:40 - 11:45
Message from the Youth
11:45 - 12:00
Goodwill messages:
12:00 - 12:15
Continental and global agenda setting events:
12:15 - 12:35
Reading of the Swakopmund Declaration on “Accelerated Actions for Inclusive, Sustainable and Resilient Sanitation and Hygiene Services Delivery in Africa”, Dr Tahani Sileet, AMCOW TAC Chair.
12:35 - 12:40
Presentation of the Swakopmund Declaration to the Government of the Republic of Namibia.
12:40 - 12:50
Closing Address: Guest of Honour from the Host Government
12:50 - 13:00
Anthems
13:00
High-Level Press Conference and Lunch
01
ESAWAS
This subtheme aims to foster collaborative efforts in sanitation and hygiene. It resonates directly with:
Stronger partnerships can be a key driver for transformative change in sanitation and hygiene services. Stronger sector governance, accountability, resource mobilisation and capacity to support improved access and quality of services can be enhanced through inclusive partnerships. When a range of stakeholders with vested interests in sanitation and hygiene are brought together, they have greater capacity and potential to address global issues by consolidating a broad spectrum of knowledge and experience to bring about sustainable change.
This sub theme explores the alignment of stakeholder interests, streamlined coordination, identifying areas of synergy to mobilise resources, sharing knowledge, promoting the creation and transfer of environmentally sound technologies, and building capacity. It will articulate actionable plans to improve the accessibility and quality of sanitation and hygiene services and ensure sustainability that translates to positive development in the following areas:
02
UNICEF
Governments are responsible for the provision of safely managed sanitation services to everyone including the most vulnerable. This is achieved through the provision of a conducive enabling environment for all stakeholders; this includes the private sector and organisations working to coexist in the sanitation and hygiene space. Within this subtheme, the policy environment constitutes clearly defined sanitation and hygiene services, institutional arrangements, capacity development, finance, regulatory frameworks, and data and information for decision making under the leadership of the government.
A key prerequisite to achieve universal access for all is a systems approach for coordinated implementation of a comprehensive policy. Therefore, this subtheme will focus on the Global Acceleration Framework of SDG 6 while also considering climate change. The focus will be on fundamental policy elements and strategies to enhance private sector participation in the provision and delivery of inclusive services.
The overall expectation is to enrich knowledge exchange on the creation of an environment supported by clear policy and regulations, where effective sanitation systems are established, consistently maintained and used by all.
Sessions will focus on:
03
AFDB
This subtheme aligns with the SDG 6 Acceleration Framework. Optimising finance is critical for channeling resources for country plans and requires new, smart practices and technologies to improve sanitation service delivery. Commitment 3 of the Ngor Declaration aims to ‘establish and track sanitation and hygiene budget lines that consistently increase annually to reach a minimum of 0.5% GDP’.
Given the incommensurate funding of the sector, it is critical to collectively discuss and agree concrete approaches for efficient financial expenditure and adequate allocation of these limited resources. This will encourage ideas for effective sector coordination and foster implementation of sustainable initiatives.
This subtheme will showcase practical interventions around sector financing, existing financing mechanisms and opportunities to harmonise approaches necessary for leveraging other SDG 6-related sector finance. Discussions will encompass but are not limited to the following:
04
WaterAid
This subtheme aligns with the vision stated by the Ngor Declaration to ‘achieve universal access to adequate and sustainable sanitation and hygiene services and eliminate open defecation by 2030’. The subtheme also aligns with SDG target 6.2 to achieve ‘access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations’ by 2030.
Good hygiene practices are central to the achievement of other SDGs including health, nutrition, gender and education. With a focus on inclusion and gender, this subtheme also relates to SDG 5 on gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls. Good hygiene saves lives. It is a highly cost-effective investment that can prevent the spread of infectious diseases in communities, public spaces and healthcare facilities.
According to the 2023 SDG 6 monitoring report of hand hygiene, 401 million people in Africa lack handwashing facilities at home and a further 494 million people use facilities without soap and/or water (JMP, 2023). However, there are regional examples of rapid increases in coverage. COVID-19 has led to improvements in hygiene policies across the region and several national governments in Africa have dedicated strategies and costed roadmaps to address this challenge. The learning from sessions in this subtheme will be synthesised into tangible recommendations to shift the dial on inclusion, hygiene and behaviour change across the region. These discussions focus on:
05
APHRC
This subtheme underscores the pivotal role of continuous research, learning and knowledge dissemination in driving meaningful progress on sanitation and hygiene service delivery. Capacity development is a component of the SDG 6 Global Acceleration Framework in which ‘a better-skilled workforce improves service levels and increases job creation and retention in the water sector’ and related sectors. SDG target 17.16 is to ‘enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources to support the achievement of sustainable development goals’.
There is, therefore, a growing emphasis worldwide on the use of knowledge to improve policies and practices with current research evidence. This requires knowledge producers, including academia and other organisations, to produce more relevant evidence. This subtheme aims to explore the alignment of interest among various stakeholders, to identify avenues for synergy to mobilise resources, sharing knowledge, promoting the creation and transfer of environmentally sound technologies, and building capacity.
Sessions will centre around:
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