09:00

Session One – Opening Ceremony

Honourable Lindiwe Benedicta Hendricks – Minister: Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, RSA

Prince Willem Alexander of Orange, Chair of UNSGAB

Honourable Bruno Jean-Richard Itoua - Ministre de l’Energie et de l’Hydraulique Congo, President AMCOW

Eustache Ouayoro, Sector Manager AFTU2, World Bank

Clarissa Brocklehurst, Chief WES, UNICEF

Wambui Gichuri RTL, WSP Africa

Statements from LATINOSAN, EASAN and SACOSAN

10:30

Coffee and Tea Break

11:00

Session Two – Status of Sanitation and Hygiene in Africa

Overview of AfricaSan +5  Objectives, Processes, Products, Participants

A Snapshot of the Sanitation Situation in Africa  – Clarissa Brocklehurst, UNICEF

Country Status Overviews of Sanitation in Africa – Kordje Bedoumra, AfDB

The Story Behind the Headlines: Preliminary Findings on Sanitation from the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic

– Eddy Perez, WSP

12:30

Lunch Break

14.00

Session Three – Sub-Regional Caucuses on Country Status and Actions

Hall A – Southern African Countries (lead presentations from Mozambique, Juliao Alferes,  South Africa, Kalinga Pelpola and brief statements from other regional countries)

Hall B – Eastern African Countries (lead presentations from Tanzania, Report on East Africa Regional Sanitation Conference Kenya, Robert Kagubia and brief statements from other regional countries)

Hall C – Western African Countries (lead presentations from Burkina Faso, Francis Bougaire and Senegal, Adama Mbaye and  brief statements from other regional countries)

Hall D – Central African Countries (lead presentations from DRC, Minister Xavier Bonane ya Nganzi and in Rwanda – Minister Bikoro Munyanganizi and brief statements from other regional countries)

16:30

Session Four: Learning from African Success

Hall A: Reaching Low income Urban Communities (lead presentations by Lamine Dieng ONAS, Senegal, Neil McCleod, eThekwini, South Africa and Edward Kairu, ANEW, Kenya)

Hall B: Rural Sanitation Programmes (lead presentations by Minister Dr Shiferaw Teklemariam, Ethiopia, Gabriel Kpinsoton, Benin and Conference Report from Jo Smet, IRC)

Hall C: Large-scale Hygiene Programmes (lead presentations by Arthur Swatson, AfDB Ghana, Chris Nsubuga, Uganda and Round Table on WASH experiences (Madagascar, Ethiopia, West Africa and Tanzania)

19:30

Mayor’s Reception

1:Taking Sanitation Behaviour Change to Scale: Community-Lead  Total Sanitation and Sanitation Marketing

1.  Changing Sanitation Behaviour in Africa: Beth Scott, LSHTM

2.  Lessons from Global Case Studies of Scaling Up Sanitation, Nila Mukerjee, WSP

3.  African experiences of CLTS – Plan and Water Aid

4.  Round Table on Large Scale Behaviour Change Sanitation Marketing and CLTS (includes experience from  Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda)

Conclusions and Recommendation for AfricaSan Statement

2: Partnerships for Hygiene and Handwashing

1.  In Safe Hands - bringing private sector marketing expertise to the public sector, Myriam Sidibe, Lifebuoy

2.  Public-Private Partnerships and Handwashing, Gail Klintworth,  Unilever, RSA

3.  Taking responsibillity for world-wide hand hygiene, Koos Kuykschot, Rentokil-Initial

4.  Experience from Health Clubs in Africa, Noma Neseni and Juliet Waterkeyn

5.  Round Table Strange bedfellows -confessions from public-private sector collaboration

Conclusions and Recommendation for Africasan Statement

3: Sanitation Leadership, Capacity, Coordination and Knowledge Exchange

1.  Round Table by  Ministers on How They Got Sanitation to be Recognized as a Priority Issue (Minister Dr Shiferaw Telkemariam, Ethiopia,  Minister Maria Mutagamba,  Uganda,  Minister Lindiwe Hendricks, RSA, Minister Bikoro Munyanganizi, Rwanda)

2.  Round Table of Experience  on Coordinating Sanitation (Fadel Ndaw  Senegal, Sam Mutono Uganda, Minister Ato Asfaw Dingamo, Ethiopia, Roland Werchota, Kenya)

3.  Round Table on African Knowledge Networks in Sanitation (Nicola Rodda, ASKNet; Elizabeth Kvarnstrom, EcosanRes Capacity Development Nodes; Oliver Cumming, WaterAid; Dr Simeon Kenfack, NETTSAF, Jo Smet East Africa Knowledge Networking)

Conclusions and Recommendation for AfricaSan Statement

4 Technical Solutions for the Urban Poor

1.     Experience of Sanitation Technologies that work at scale in Africa, Professor Duncan Mara, University of Leeds

2.    Round Table on Condominial Sewerage in Africa  (Includes Martin Gauss, WSP)

3.    Round Table on Pit Emptying (Includes Steve Sugden, LSHTM, Graham Alabaster, UN-Habitat)

4.    Round Table  Urban Nutrient Recovery and Sludge Management (Mariska Ronteltap, Mamadou Guaye,  Doulaye Kone)

5.    Conclusions and Recommendation for AfricaSan Statement

12:30

Lunch Break

14:00 – 17.30 Afternoon Session

5 Sustaining Sanitation Services and the Environment

1.  Sustaining sanitation services - Dick Van Ginhoven, DGIS 

2.  Getting an Appropriate Mix of Sustainable Sanitation Options – Uwe Stoll, KfW

3.  Sustainability of On-site Sanitation – Jay Bhagwan, WRC

4.  Sustainability of sanitation services - Uganda James Miiro Maiteki/Andrew Sekayizzi

5.  Round Table on Ecosan Experience in Africa (Christine Werner, SuSanA, CREPA, Arno Rosemarin, EcoSanRes, Peter Morgan)

6.  Round Table on Sanitation and IWRM (includes , Simon Thuo and Getachew Abdi, Zerefu GWP, Laurent Stravato IFAD)

Conclusions and Recommendation for Africasan Statement

6 Financing to Meet the Sanitation MDGs

1.  Financing to meet the MDGs in Africa: What will it take?  Sophie Tremolet

2.  Financing Domestic and Industrial Wastewater,  Maurice Bernard, AFD, Monica Scatasta OECD

3.   Economic Impact of Sanitation: Experience from East Asia, Guy Hutton, WSP

4.  Round Table on Sanitation Fees and Subsidies (includes  Jules Ouadrago, ONEA; Mimi Jenkins, LSHTM)

5.  Round Table on Establishing a Budget for Sanitation

6.  Round Table on New Finance for Sanitation: Jon Lane Global Fund for Sanitation, Murray Biedler, ACP-EU Water Facility, Christoph Gleitsmann EIB ACP WPPF,  AfDB/AWF

Conclusions and Recommendation for AfricaSan Statement

7 Safeguarding Society: Public Health, Women and Children

1.   The Impact of Sanitation on Children - Theresa Dooley, UNICEF

2.   Sanitation and Risk Management. A WHO Guideline perspective”. Thor Axel Stenström

3.   Round Table on Sanitation, Hygiene and HIV/AIDS (Merri Weinger, USAID, Busi Radebe, Alana Potter, IRC)

4.   Sanitation and Security for Women, Barbara Holtmann, CSIR, South Africa

5.   Round Table on Sanitation, Women and Children (Min. Maria Mutagamba, Uganda, Santa Nair, India, Keletso Mokobi GWA, Toni Luck, Jo Smet, IRC)

Conclusions and Recommendation for AfricaSan Statement

8 Tools for Sanitation Advocacy

1.    Communications and Media in Sanitation Advocacy - Geeta Sharma

2.    Role of media in sanitation advocacy

3.    Lessons from global sanitation advocacy – German Toilet Organisation and Therese Dooley, UNICEF

4.    Strengthening the case for sanitation – Water Aid

5.    Lessons from The Global WASH campaign – Carolien van der Voorden WSSCC

6.    Humor in sanitation – Editorial Cartoonists Association of East Africa - Gado

Conclusions and Recommendation for AfricaSan Statement

09:00

Session Six: Ministerial Roundtable

Political Undertakings from AfricaSan

Ministers debate AfricaSan Political Statement

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

Session Seven: Closing Session

Presentation of AfricaSan Political Statement

Presentation of AfricaSan Action Plan

Closing Speeches

12:15

Media (Press) Conference

12:30

Lunch

13:00 – 17.30

Three Simultaneous Field Trips Hosted by eThekwini Water:

1  Rural Sanitation: Practice and Research

2  Sanitation in Urban Informal Settlements, Pit Emptying and Waste Disposal

3  High Tech Tour: Tunneling and Recycling