The African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW), in keeping with its decision to institutionalize the annual Africa Water Week (AWW), has announced that the 3rd Africa Water Week (AWW3) will be held at the United Nations Conference Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 22 to 26 of November 2010.

With only five years away from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target date of 2015, the 3rd Africa Water Week will provide a unique occasion for taking a comprehensive stock of the challenges faced and progresses made across the continent towards achieving the goals and targets set on water and sanitation. Building on the momentum of the last Africa Water Week, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, the next Water Week will also be an opportunity to pin point and prioritize with precision the areas where Africa needs to do more and better than before in order to ensure that equitable access to water and sanitation makes a critical contribution in Africa’s progress towards sustainable development.

The African Water Week represents a political commitment at the highest level where governments, regional institutions, international partners, the private sector, the scientific community, civil society, and the media from all over the world, and in particular Africa, meet to discuss and collectively seek solutions to Africa’s water and sanitation challenges. NBD will be represented at the African Water Week by Regional Manager Ms Abby Onencan and NBD staff based in Addis Ababa.