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12TH R

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21-22 N

OVEMBER 2011

UNECA- ADDIS

ABABA

Infrastructure

Development Cluster

WATER

ENERGY

ICT

TRANSPORT

Main Activities

The cluster provides input and participate:Programme for Infrastructure Development

in Africa: PIDA Phase 1 Validation Workshop was conducted on April 18-20, 2011, in Libreville, Gabon

Discussed on the sectors: Transport, Energy, ICT, and Trans-boundary Water Resources (TWR)

PIDA High Level Technical Team Meeting was held on 7-8 July, 2011 in Tunis, Tunisia

review the PIDA’s Draft Sector Briefs in order to develop the strategic framework of PIDA

Main Activities

Ten Year Capacity Building Programme:meeting of the Joint ECA and NPCA Technical Team was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 23 May 2011

As part of the process of developing a MYP of ECA support to NPCA

programme matrix were developed based on the thematic areas of NPCA

The cluster also participated in the AU-UN Retreat on the development of a comprehensive work program for the TYCBP which was held on 7-9 September 2011, at Debre Zeit, Ethiopia

ENERGY SUB-CLUSTER ACTIVITIES

Capacity-building on climate change mitigation for poverty

Enhancing and improving access to energy services through development of PPPs in renewable energy

High-level workshop on PPPs implementation in the energy sector in Africa

Compendium of African best practices in utility regulation towards energy policy harmonisation

Enhancing and improving access to energy services through development of PPP in renewable energy

Promoting energy efficiency investments for climate change mitigation and sustainable development

ICT SUB-CLUSTER ACTIVITIES

AFREF project to set up unified geodetic reference frame for Africa so that maps & other spatial info products can be represented on the same datum

Feasibility study on the establishment of the African Space Agency

Internet GovernanceThe African Internet Governance Forum (AfIGF) Workshop on Connectivity and Access in Sub-Saharan Africa – Status, Challenges and Opportunities

African Ministerial Roundtable on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

The AU convention on a legal framework on cyber-security

ICT and Law Reform Programme to assist governments of the EAC in harmonising their cyber laws

E-employment for the Economic Community for Central African States (ECCAS)

TRANSPORT SUB-CLUSTER ACTIVITIES

Review of Africa’s Legal Instruments on Trade and Transport Facilitation to review the texts on trade and transport facilitation; validate the analytical work done by the consultant and to share experiences on the implementation of legal instruments.

Expert group meeting on the validation of the report on regional norms for the Trans-African Highways and the draft agreement (19-20 Sep 2011) in collaboration with AUC & Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries, and Small Island Developing States

ECA is working directly with AUC in the implementation of the Plan of Action adopted by the 1st African Union Transport Ministerial Conference held in Algiers in April 2008

THE WATER SUB-CLUSTER ACTIVITIES

Support to AMCOW on organising & servicing African Water Week III (22-26 November 2010) – contributed at the 10th meeting of the TAC of AMCOW

UN-Water/Africa serving in the governing body of the African Water Facility, contributed at the AWF Governing Council Extraordinary Meeting Towards Water for All by 2025, Tunis, Tunisia, June 28th 2011;

Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem joint project of UNIDO, UNDP, UNEP, NEPAD, FAO, GEF, and IMO is on-going. There are three major projects in Southern Africa, Morocco, and the Guinea Current Commission.

The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply & Sanitation tasked with monitoring progress towards MDG Target 7c on drinking-water supply & sanitation.

CHALLENGES

Communication, human & financial resources still remain a constraint in most sub-clusters – impact is that major planned activities are not going as planned

Need for closer collaboration and communication remains an important part particularly in pushing the energy agenda forward in Africa

Difficulties in programming and implementing joints activities because of high numbers of activities and the insufficient consultations before fixing the dates

Most of the international institutions dealing with transport are not based in Africa

THANK YOU