This workshop will compare ongoing national policy and legal reform in Africa, and their direct and indirect impacts on small-scale rural water development, use, and management, as well as discuss general and site-specific recommendations and guidelines for water management and legal pluralism that foster sustainable development for the poor in Africa.  

dates: 26-28 January 2005  
location: Gauteng, South Africa  
contact: Barbara van Koppen, International Water Management Institute  
phone: 27-12-845-9100  
e-mail: b.vankoppen@cgiar.org  
www: http://www.nri.org/waterlaw/workshop.htm