ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: Africa requires increased strategic aid, and strategic self-management of this aid, in order to reach the water and sanitation targets of the Millenium Development Goals and the World Summit on Sustainable Development. UNESCOIHE, which has contributed so many trained water professionals, 87% of whom are still active in the water sector ten years after graduation, now can help Africa achieve the educational capacity to train water professionals, whose numbers need to increase by 300%. Progressively, Africa also needs to be able to replace larger numbers of the over 100,000 foreign technical assistants on the continent with its own trained experts. The African Ministers’ Council on Water has both established a Special Water Fund managed by the African Development Bank, and is forming a Processing Centre for Strategic Partnerships as an intelligent indigenous catalyst and policy coordinator for these urgent efforts.
