EU Water Initiative

FAN Executive Secretary attends EU Water Initiative Coordination Group Meeting March 2008

Danielle Morley was one of three NGO representatives at the first meeting of the group, previously known as the steering group.

The EC have expressed a renewed commitment to water and sanitation, and plan to develop a more integrated framework with EU Member States, partners and stakeholders. Most of the meeting focused on the working groups’ draft annual reports. 

Read the minutes

EUWI website 

EU Water Initiative (EUWI) sessions – Stockholm 2007

FAN, FANCA and ANEW representatives attended the Multi-Stakeholder Forum and African Working Group meetings.

The aim of these meeting was to share information and discuss the recent EUWI review, commissioned by the UK and Germany. The main outcome of the review is that decision making around what shape the initiative takes now lies with the regional groups. Each group is autonomous and should set their own agenda.  FANCA representative, Rolando Castro, was disappointed that no representative from the Latin American component was in attendance to present their work or future plans.

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Read the review (pdf)

EUWI Working Groups

EUWI Africa Working Group (AWG)

The first meeting of the EUWI Africa Working Group members took place in Burkina Faso in April 2007.  Edward Kairu represented ANEW.  There were sessions on the Africa Working Group strategy, financing, sanitation and EU Aid mapping. 

NGO response to EU Water Initiative (EUWI) African Working Group (AfWG) strategy 2006

NGOs active in the EUWI AfWG, including FAN and ANEW, sent a response to the proposed strategy for the Africa Working Group to EU Heads of Water in European states ahead of a meeting of EU Heads of Water on 24th October 2006. 

Read the response [pdf]

EUWI Latin American meeting

Members of FANCA participated in the meeting of the European Union Water Initiative for Latin America (EUWI-LA) in Guatemala in April 2007. FANCA developed a successful lobby campaign at this meeting promoting the need for EUWI-LA to open to civil society.

Read Jorge Mora’s report