The main objective of this conference is to inform and sensitize the national, regional and international institutions working in the water sector and in public and private enterprises about the importance of development and setting out of new approaches of collaboration between North and South stakeholders. This collaboration approach relates to the development of new knowledge, the setting out of policies and programmes of water, as the management of water services, developing and realizing of projects supporting the access to drinking water and the durable use of this resource. The collaboration also relates to improving of the role of women and girls in the management of water in rural, semi-urban and urban areas.  

dates: 25-26 October 2006  
location: Gatineau, Canada  
contact: Nlombi Kibi  
phone: 1-613-562-5800, ext 3982  
fax: 1-613-562-5873  
e-mail: nkibi@uottawa.ca  
www: http://www2.uquebec.ca/TS/EA/Pres/ConfAng.html