Access to safe water and sanitation remains a current and future challenge in Africa. This is what justifies the creation of a think tank in the UEMOA area to provide answers based on evidence and research findings.
The West African Economic and Monetary Union (WEUMOA) supports the creation of a Wash/RTT-WEUMOA think tank. The institution, through its representative, based its argument on the fact that access to drinking water and safe sanitation facilities is, since 2010, a human right, which is not acquired for everyone, and that this inequality it massively affects disadvantaged people, especially women and children. children. “According to the United Nations, the world population could reach 9 billion people by 2050. Furthermore, people living in areas vulnerable to water scarcity would increase from the current 3.6 billion to 5.7 billion. This population growth will mainly take place in developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, while many of them already face difficulties in the field of access to water and sanitation,” informs the representative of UEMOA, Dr. Dia.
These numerous challenges amply justify the creation of a framework for reflection useful for proposing the most relevant actions to undertake. For the UEMOA representative, the proposal to establish the WASH/RTT-UEMOA Think Tank aims to respond to this need and is part of the West African Sanitation Policy & Activators (WASPA) project, whose overall objective is to build and maintain political leadership for safe sanitation management based on the African Sanitation Policy Guidelines (ASPG), in 5 francophone West African countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal), through supported advocacy action from research evidence.
Today more than ever, the challenges of climate change, population growth, rampant urbanization and constraints on access to sanitation and drinking water require strong leadership. “Addressing these challenges in a complex world where changes and developments occur at the speed of light requires, among other things, building political leadership through the creation of an institutional and intellectual framework supported by research evidence useful for development and capable of influencing public policies,” said Dr. Cheikh Oumar Ba of RTT-UEMOA, Executive Director of IPAR and President of the Think Tank Network. It was during the launch of the Think Tank Wash/RTT-UEMOA organized in collaboration with the Initiative for Agricultural and Rural Prospects (IPAR).
2024-01-01 11:40:35
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