Traduction de «partenariat suisse pour l'eau » (Français → Anglais) :

The EU supports partnership projects (North-South and South-South) to develop capacity in the water and sanitation sector by transferring expertise and knowledge from water and sanitation utilities, local authorities and other water sector actors.

Two partnerships with these countries were launched on the occasion of the Johannesburg Conference: the Pan-European East-West Partnership for Sustainable Development and the Strategic Partnership on Water for Sustainable Development.

The Johannesburg Plan of Implementation not only set new targets in important areas such as access to sanitation, biodiversity protection, protection of fish-stocks and regulation of chemicals; it also launched more than two hundred voluntary partnerships for sustainable development, including two important EU partnerships on water and energy.

The Africa-EU Partnership on water affairs and sanitation, launched at the WSSD in the context of the EU Water Initiative, will be the framework for EU efforts to make more sustainable use of available and finite water resources, to meet basic water and sanitation needs and contribute to improving water resources management at local, river basin, national and transboundary levels.

- At ACP level : thematic priorities are derived from the EU-Africa partnership - which has been formally endorsed under the EU-Africa Dialogue - and the Facility intends to build bridges and foster dialogue with African institutions either of global nature like NEPAD and AU or of sectoral character like the AMCOW and African Water Facility. During the Panafrican Water Conference in Addis Ababa in December 2003, AMCOW has released a resolution to support the proposed ACP-EU Water Facility. The proposed Facility is also in line with the objectives of the G8 Actions Plans on Water and on Africa. Similar processes are being developed in the ...[+++] Caribbean and Pacific regions.

There have been extensive technical exchanges between the European and African partners, through detailed discussion during the Water Week in August in Stockholm, at AMCOW meetings in Ouagadougou in October, and during the Panafrican Water Conference in Addis Ababa in December 2003, with a view to develop a Strategy and Work Programme as a basis for the implementation of the Africa-EU Partnership on water affairs and sanitation in 2004-05.