Room 202

The world is not on track to reach the Sustainable Development Goal targets 6.2 on sanitation and 6.3 on wastewater management. Today, 3.6 billion people lack safely managed sanitation and more than 494 million people still practice open defecation, which is posing serious threats to public health, environment, and economic development.

The private sector is a major player in driving innovation and developing demand-driven knowledge-based solutions in the water and sanitation sector. German companies within the water and sanitation sector have recognized that the key factors which ensure their long-term viability and sustainability of investments are employees with exactly the right qualifications as well as sector-specific knowledge and skills. For this reason, the private sector is continuously investing in training young people.

This session will present ongoing actions on the themes: depollution of water bodies, social technologies, service supply regularization, and adaptability in order to share innovative practices that contribute to the advancement of the sector, above all, to ensure the access to water and sanitation to low-income communities.

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 session aims first to address the Water-Peace-Security nexus in the West and Central African context. Also, it aims to present the main achievements of the DEP initiative since its official launch in 2019; the session will serve as an opportunity to exchange on the main future strategic orientations of the DEP in terms of think tank on the water-peace-development nexus. To this end, the session will aim to explore the possibilities of setting up the follow-up mechanism of the WEF recommendations in concert with the Dakar Water Forum Secretariat.

The session aims to explore innovative ways of generating and sharing practical knowledge on integrated water resource management (IWRM) among a wide range of stakeholders across sectors and scales. It will highlight concrete water and climate solutions brought by different groups that have proven to be sustainable in the countries and sectors where they were implemented (e.g., in food security, social inclusion, transboundary cooperation, etc.). In an interactive way, it will dissect some of those cases to allow the participants to reach conclusions and recommendations jointly.

The session will present the application used by the Dakar 2022 Jury to evaluate the contributions of water projects to all 17 SDGs and will conclude with it being made available online for free use by all water stakeholders worldwide.

The Special session on the Global Observatory for Water and Peace will facilitate dialogue between politicians, diplomats, actors from the water as well as from the peace and security sector, and will present the Pole Eau Dakar- the West-African regional partner to the Global Observatory for Water and Peace.