Water security

Specifically, UAF-Africa will organize a high level panel on 23rd March during the main forum to discuss the challenges that African womn face when it comes to access, control and use of water. The panel discussions will entail conversations that uplift a critical feminist analysis of African womn’s water justice struggles. Additionally, the panel discussion will seek to center thought leadership and influence feminist action of alternative solutions to the dominant water governance challenges that African Womn face.

The African continent continues to be faced to major challenges in the water sector, particularly in terms of access to safe drinking water and water quality monitoring. Despite progress in recent years, 40% of the population of sub-Saharan Africa does not have access to safe drinking water. The challenge of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 6.1 and 6.3, includes water quality.

With the imperative that the 9th World Water Forum will bridge between the stakeholders and between regions, without neglecting the geopolitical and cultural characteristics of each region, CAF, in coordination with the presidency and the secretariat of the WWC, carried out the Conference on Finance and Water Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC): Towards Dakar 2022. In this session will be shared the vision of LAC in terms of water gathered from the conference, concerning regional challenges and opportunities.

Africa has undergone fundamental changes over the last decade, which has fueled increasing demand for water and interconnected sectors underpinning human development, food security, energy access, environmental wellbeing, and climate action. Building on the vision of the EU-Africa partnership “Towards a Comprehensive Strategy with Africa” this special session serves as a follow-up to the European Union - African Union summit (17-18 February 2022).

Central Asia - an extensive, landlocked region of Asia. The region includes the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and the Republic of Uzbekistan. According to the latest UN estimations, the current population of Central Asia is more than 75.1 million people - this is about 1% of the total population of the Earth.

Objectives :
• Share experiences and good practices in the design and implementation of shared-benefit projects (adaptation and mitigation) in the water sector,
• Promote the integrated management of water resources in the various economic sectors while taking into account climate change;
• Identify and prioritize actions, projects and financing tools for ensuring water security and climate change adaptation and mitigation;
• Identify Capacity needs of countries for achieving SDGs 6 and 13 through the implementation of water-related NDCs.

The objective of this panel is to allow participants to discuss the challenges and issues related to water security in Senegal and to formulate concrete recommendations for a better integration of the water security approach in policies, strategies and programs. The panel will present:
- The challenges and issues related to water security in Senegal;
- The issues of governance of BR and sectoral policy for a good IWRM;
- The organizational and legal framework of IWRM for a good implementation of water security;

The "Dakar 2021 Initiative" aims, during the preparatory phase of the Forum, to select, label and popularize relevant, innovative, structuring and replicable national, regional and international projects, producing short-term results with a sustainable impact around the Forum's priorities, and whose purpose is to contribute to the acceleration of the achievement of the SDGs, and more particularly of SDG6.
The Dakar 2022 Initiative is the materialization of the vision: "From commitment to implementation of concrete actions on the ground".

The "Dakar 2021 Initiative" aims, during the preparatory phase of the Forum, to select, label and popularize relevant, innovative, structuring and replicable national, regional and international projects, producing short-term results with a sustainable impact around the Forum's priorities, and whose purpose is to contribute to the acceleration of the achievement of the SDGs, and more particularly of SDG6.
The Dakar 2022 Initiative is the materialization of the vision: "From commitment to implementation of concrete actions on the ground".

The "Dakar 2021 Initiative" aims, during the preparatory phase of the Forum, to select, label and popularize relevant, innovative, structuring and replicable national, regional and international projects, producing short-term results with a sustainable impact around the Forum's priorities, and whose purpose is to contribute to the acceleration of the achievement of the SDGs, and more particularly of SDG6.
The Dakar 2022 Initiative is the materialization of the vision: "From commitment to implementation of concrete actions on the ground".