AfWA Program Director, Dr. Siméon KENFACK, attended the 7th edition of the African Summit of Local Governments: Africities 2015 organized in Johannesburg, South Africa, from November 29th to December 3rd, 2015. This summit, which is organized by the umbrella organization “United Cities and Local Government of Africa (UCLG Africa)”, is held every other year.

For this edition, the African Water Association was invited together with the African Union of Public Transports to present a session on “Management of urban public services, especially Water, Sanitation, Electricity and Public Transport”.

This session beat the audience record with about 120 participants who showed a particular interest in the issues relating to water and sanitation over the African continent. Dr. Siméon KENFACK proposed the programs developed by AfWA for the benefit of water and sanitation utilities over the continent, particularly through the WOPs (Water Operators’ Partnership), the Program of reduction of Non-Revenue Water and the Program for the improvement of water quality).

These various programs have shown over the years the expertise of AfWA which contributes, notably, to the improvement of the quality of African public services management as regard Water, Sanitation and Hygiene over our continent. The session took place in the presence of the Moroccan Minister in charge of Relations with Parliament and the Civil Society, Abdelaziz El Omari, current mayor of Casablanca city.

“Africités 2015“ was a great success, with more than 5,000 participants.