African water ministers agree on modalities for cooperation with strategic partners
By Yinka Adeyemi, ECA
01 July 2005

The Executive Committee of the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) ended its two day meeting Thursday in Addis Ababa with broad agreements on the modalities for cooperation between AMCOW, regional economic communities (RECs), river basin organizations and strategic development partners.

To ensure consistency, the Committee called for strengthening of the links between the water units of various RECSs and River/Lake Basin Organizations in the areas of programming, information sharing and resource mobilization.

It requested NEPAD to organize a workshop of stakeholders to review the relationship between RECs, river basin organizations and NEPAD.

The Committee also called for institutionalized collaboration between AMCOW and key stakeholders, urging closer networking among basin organizations and involvement of strategic partners in all AMCOW activities, including the meetings of its technical advisory committee.

It called on AMCOW to develop a system of information gathering and analysis on activities related to it and to update the compendium on transboundary basins in Africa.