Transcript The Infrastructure Development Cluster

WATER
ENERGY
Infrastructure
Development
Cluster
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 Governance
 The 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 &
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