This meeting is co-organized by Casa Africa and the UN Office to Support the International Decade for Action ‘Water for Life’ 2005-2015 (UNO-IDfA). Its main objective is to reinforce cooperation tools and mechanisms that will strengthen the capacities of African countries to achieve the Millennium Development target to ‘halve by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.’ For more information contact: María del Pilar González Meyaui; tel: +34 976 478 346/7; fax: +34 976 478 349; e-mails: gonzalez-meyaui@un.org or watermeeting@casafrica.es; Internet.  

dates: 20-22 April 2009  
location: Las Palmas De Gran Canaria, Spain