Report on mission to service the third annual Meeting of the Interagency Group for Water in Africa

Abstract

UNECA as the secretariat of IGWA is responsible for organizing the annual meetings of the group. The main objective of IGWA is to coordinate and harmonize the activities of Various United Nations and other agencies in waters sector in the African region in order to achieve better efficiency and avoid duplication of efforts by these agencies. In this regard, the second annual meeting of IGWA in 1993 requested UNEP to prepare a paper on mechanisms/ modalities/approaches and other concrete ways for coordinating and harmonizing water activities in Africa by the IGWA member agencies. The UNECA also, as a secretariat^ prepared a comprehensive paper on the" priority areas of activities for cooperation and collaboration among IGWA members to serve as a working document for the third' annual meeting.