Debbie Besseling
Editor
Water & Sanitation Africa and SA Irrigation

• Implementing effective strategies for managing end-users
• Looking at alternatives of direct sourcing of water supplies
• Ensuring substantial developments for infrastructure projects
  and future directions
• Making water management integral to city planning
• Guaranteeing key urban development outcomes

Zvinaiye Manyere
Acting Chief Executive
Rand Water, South Africa

• Common causes of water supply stress population growth – increasing industrialization, urbanisation
• Optimisation through strategic efficiency management approaches – mapping driving forces for change, continuous improvements, adopting PSP mentalities
• Water loss management challenges
• Water resources protection and need for effective stakeholder coordination
• Water production capacity development – O&M, optimizing capacity utilization, capital financing inadequacies

Dr William Muhairwe

Managing Director

National Water & Sewerage Corporation, Uganda

• Creating awareness and improving stakeholders’
  understanding of water demand management
• Ensuring the integrated development of the utility’s capacity
  to cope with the challenges of implementing water demand
  management
• Developing a legal framework to guarantee that end-user
  technologies for water services conform to the principles of
  water demand management
• Assuring the sustainability of quality water services and a
  good return on investments in the sector

Zvinaiye Manyere
Acting Chief Executive
Rand Water, South Africa

Dr William Muhairwe
Managing Director
National Water and Sewerage Corporation, Uganda

Nolene Cornelia Morris
Chief Executive
Bloem Water, South Africa

Alex KaayaChief Executive Officer
Dar es Salaam Water and Sewerage Corporation, Tanzania

• Adopting a best practice maintenance strategy to ensure
  service reliability
• Assessing the impact of understanding your customer base
  for improved performance on water service delivery
• Improving infrastructure coordination and asset management
• Applying mechanisms for moving towards a more proactive
  water service delivery organisation

Nolene Cornelia Morris
Chief Executive
Bloem Water, South Africa

• Implementing efficient and reliable systems to deliver water
  to the public
• Dealing with challenges encountered in delivering water
  supply and demand
• Creating a culture of effectively managing end-users in the
  rural sector

Johan Jordaan
Water Services Authority Manager
Zululand District Municipality

• Analysing the key factors affecting water service delivery
• Integrated water resource planning and demand management
• Water balance, resource planning and management
• Assessing the current service levels and future service
  delivery strategy

Sipho Mosai
Director: Water Services
City of Cape Town

• Understanding the challenges of the current water supply
  system
• Assessing means of closing the demand gap and meeting
  future water demands
• Implementing effective strategies for developing a detailed
  water demand management strategy
• Examining the bottlenecks to better service delivery to the
  city’s urban poor

Wondimu Tekle Sigo
Technical Deputy General Manager
Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Authority, Ethiopia

• Identifying issues and challenges to overcome in reforming
  urban water systems
• Employing quantity based mechanisms for demand
  management
• Measuring the potential for the investment and development
  of new water supplies
• Designing and implementing strategies for sustaining the
  region’s water resources

Oduro K. GyartengChairman
Water Resources Commission, Ghana

Aladji Dieng
Technical Director
Senegalese des Eaux, Senegal

• Implementing an active leak control programme to detect and pinpoint unreported leaks
• Future outlook on advanced pressure management and customer flow monitoring
• Redesigning water loss management standards

Dr Mark Webb
Director
SSIS Consulting Engineers

• Critical review of the current status of water supply and demand
• Exploring the region’s potential for water conservation
  through demand management
• Rehabilitation and improvements of existing water demand
  management structures
• Forecasting future trends in water supply and demand for the
  region

Dr William Muhairwe
Managing Director
National Water and Sewerage Corporation, Uganda

Mwalimu K Musau
Director
Kenya Water Institute, Kenya

Alex Kaaya
Chief Executive Officer
Dar es Salaam Water and Sewerage Corporation, Tanzania

Wondimu Tekle Sigo
Technical Deputy General Manager
Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Authority, Ethiopia

Debbie Besseling
Editor
Water & Sanitation Africa and SA Irrigation

• Analysing means of developing and promoting an
  understanding for preserving water resources
• Developing an overall government strategy for on-going
  campaigns to encourage the public to pay for basic services
• Encouraging the use of alternative water sources across key
  industries and communities
• Strengthening SADC co-operation on shared water resources

Cain Chunda
Director: Water Use Efficiency
Department of Water Affairs and Forestry

• Effective means of managing water assets to minimise the
  effects of climate change
• Investigating changing water patterns to counter the lack of
  water resources
• Evaluating public awareness as a component of a
  comprehensive water conservation campaign

Emmanuel M Lesoma
Commissioner for Water
Lesotho Ministry of Natural Resources, Lesotho

• Investigation of recycled water resources
• Providing recycled water to large water using communities
  and industries
• Developing water supplies to help sustain the growth of the
  capital city

Petrus du Pisani
Strategic Executive: Infrastructure Water and Waste Management
Windhoek Municipality, Namibia

• A critical review of challenges within these markets
• Analysing the drivers and restraints that are shaping these
  markets
• What opportunities exist in Africa?
• Forging ahead – what is the future for desalination in Africa?

David Winter
Research Analyst
Frost and Sullivan

• Resources – finances, skills, water availability
• Infrastructure conditions – materials, policy, pressure
• Institutional attitudes – structure, regulation, politics
• Leakage control – activity, perception, technical expertise

Deon NelGeneral Manager
Biwater

• Adopting a holistic approach for innovative strategies and
  methods for water quality management
• Developing best practice management tactics for dealing with
  pollution
• Creating opportunities for promoting reuse and recycling to
  enhance water treatment
• Linking the restructuring of water sectors with environmental
  protection by introducing clean technologies

Mwalimu K Musau
Director
Kenya Water Institute

Petrus VenterDeputy Regional Director: Water Resources Management
Department of Water Affairs and Forestry: North West Regional Office

• Critical insight into the key criterion for successful
  implementation of the project
• Fact findings-facing the reality of Ghana’s urban water situation
• Overcoming the bottlenecks and following the road to
  smooth implementation
• Lessons learnt so far and facing the future

Kwekwu Botwe
Deputy Managing Director
Ghana Water Company, Ghana

• Investigating the underlying proponents of privatisation
  through developing the country’s infrastructure
• Assessing the challenges and opportunities in the water
  supply and waste water treatment
• Then and now-developments made in recent years and what
  is the future outlook?

Francis Mugo
Managing Director
Nairobi Water Company, Kenya

• PPPs as an option for improving water service delivery
• Critically assessing the role of the private sector in improving the
  efficiency of water treatment, recycling and water distribution
• Investigating the stumbling blocks for private sector
  investment in Africa’s water industry
• Forecasting the future of PPP developments and investment
  opportunities in the water sector

Oduro K Gyarteng
Chairman
Water Resources Commission, Ghana

Francis Mugo
Managing Director
Nairobi Water Company, Kenya

Kwekwu Botwe
Deputy Managing Director
Ghana Water Company, Ghana

Laila Horton
Senior Project Advisor: PPP Unit
National Treasury

Dieng Babacar
Water and Sanitation Consultant
Senegal

Aladji Dieng
Technical Director
Senegalese des Eaux, Senegal

• Developing a comprehensive water reform policy for demand
  management
• Water conservation through the use of appropriate technology
• Investigating the financing structures for water development
  and capacity building
• Road towards the future-effectively managing water
  resources in a changing environment

Cain Chunda
Director: Water Conservation
Department of Water and Forestry

Emmanuel M Lesoma
Commissioner for Water
Lesotho Ministry of Natural Resources, Lesotho

Petrus du Pisani
Strategic Executive: Infrastructure Water and
Waste Management, Windhoek Municipality, Namibia

Sipho Mosai
Director: Water Services
City of Cape Town

Objective

The masterclass will be centered around the Occupational Health and
Safety Act for which there are massive fines for non-compliance. The
water sector is very much subject to this act and therefore compliance
is non-negotiable. The masterclass will be highly interactive and
informative.

Agenda

• Understanding the concept of risk management
• Gain ability to assess your own organisation from risk management
  perspective
• Risk assessment
• Risk management evaluation
• Key considerations in implementing risk mitigation and
  preparedness measures in the water utility sector
• Investigating the specification standards for enabling better
  development of a risk operational plan
• Understanding the critical elements of early warning signs to help
  with risk management
• Why risk management programmes are less effective – pit-falls to
  watch out for
• Employer’s duties and responsibilities under the OHS Act
• Penalties for non-compliance
• Accident causes and prevention
• Identifying various risks in your organisation
• Risk management and sound corporate governance
• The Water Act as an element of risk management
• Compliance to environmental issues and their impact on risk
  management

About your masterclass presenter

Harry Harris
Group Chief Executive Officer
Business Risk Solutions

Harry has over 28 years experience in wide spectrum risk control as
well as developing a strong focus on occupational health and safety,
(in particular compliance to the OHS Act. He is recognised as an
expert in his field and through his professional organisation has
actively assisted many small and large businesses in identifying and
implementing effective risk management policies and procedures in
addition to setting up good governance standards.

Agenda

• What is Public Private Partnerships (PPP)
• Managing and allocating risks in PPP
• Quantitative risk analysis and cashflow forecasts
• Legal and contractual issues in PPP projects
• Financing issues including capital marketing enhancement for PPP
• The PPP tender Process
• Sources of credit support and risk support in African PPP projects
• Further features of PPP in the water sector
• PPP and social infrastructure

About your masterclass presenters

Anita Botha
Partner
WZC (Pty) Ltd

Anita has extensive knowledge of the legal framework governing the
feasibility, procurement and contacting phases of a municipal PPP and
the ability to impart this knowledge in a practical hands-on and
interactive manner.

Johan Kruger
Director
AFCAP Consult

Johan is a water engineer for Ninham Shand and senior leadership
team of the Development Bank of South Africa. He is also founder of
the Infrastructure Finance Corporation (INCA Bank) that did
groundbreaking work in developing a credit model for the financing of
municipalities during South Africa’s Democratic transition.

Kimon Paxinos
Director
AFCAP Consult

Kimon is principally involved with capital and debt origination and has
recently completed work on innovative PPP’s in South Africa on behalf
of the World Economic Forum.