The Société des Eaux de Guinée Conakry (Water Utility of Guinée Conakry) (SEG) and the Société d'Exploitation des Eaux du Niger (Water Utility of Niger) (SEEN) recently received a visit from evaluators as part of the monitoring of their laboratories' Performance Improvement Plan (PAP). The mission was led by Professor Aw Sadat of the Société de Distribution de l'Eau de Côte d'Ivoire (Water Utility of Côte d'Ivoire) (SODECI) Olivier Yaméogo of the National Water and Sanitation Office (ONEA) of Burkina Faso, Gilles Djagoun and Alexandre Kotia of AfWA and aimed to assess both the level of implementation of the PAPs and the development of management manuals for the water quality control laboratories.

Thus, the evaluation revealed very satisfactory results. As far as the implementation of the Performance Improvement Plan (PAP) is concerned, the evaluators noted that at the SEG laboratory, 22% of the activities have been completed compared to 39% in progress and that good progress has been made in drafting the laboratory management manual. As for the SEEN laboratory, 28% of the activities have been completed compared to 39% in progress and also a good progress in the drafting of the laboratory's management manual.

At the end of the mission, the evaluators expressed their satisfaction with the progress made in the visited laboratories’ implementation of the PAPs. While urging laboratory operators to continue in the same vein, the evaluators congratulated the General Management of SEG and SEEN for their involvement in improving the performance of the laboratories in water quality control and monitoring.

It should be noted that these evaluation missions are part of the monitoring of the Performance Improvement Plan (PAP) of the laboratories of water utilities benefiting from the support of component 3 of the AfriCap program of the African Water Association (AfWA), funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and focused on building the capacity of African water operators in water quality management through peer partnerships.