{"id":5940,"date":"2016-07-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/afrique-ouest\/news\/fighting-corruption-in-the-water-sector-and-sanitation-in-benin\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:05:53","slug":"fighting-corruption-in-the-water-sector-and-sanitation-in-benin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/afrique-ouest\/news\/fighting-corruption-in-the-water-sector-and-sanitation-in-benin\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting corruption in the water sector and sanitation in Benin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The content of the draft charter and its operationalization mechanism  have been validated by stakeholders (different categories of actors in  the water sector) on June 21, 2016. Almost all categories of  stakeholders including the administration of water and sanitation, the  control structures, the Communes, the private sector, civil society and  development partners, the National Assembly represented by the President  of African Parliamentarians network against Corruption, the Beninese  Journalists network for Water and Sanitation (RJBEA), the sectoral  ministries through the Inspectors General, and NGOs were represented.<\/p>\n<p>The opening of the workshop was chaired by the Secretary General of  the Ministry for Water, Jean-Claude GBODOGBE in the presence of the  Chairman of CWP Benin, Francophone Africa Coordinator of the WIN network  and the Embassy of the Netherlands, leader of the Technical and  Financial Partners of the water and sanitation sector in Benin.<\/p>\n<p>In his workshop opening speech, the Secretary General noted that  water and sanitation are priorities in the growth strategy document for  poverty reduction. He reminded that the President of Benin has pledged  to make access to water an inalienable right. Therefore, he welcomed the  advent of the Charter, which comes just after &#8220;the crisis related to  irregularities in the financial management of the second phase of  support to the Multiannual Programme for Water and Sanitation sector (  PPEA2)\u201d. Finally, he urged participants to examine in depth the Charter  and its operationalization mechanism and reassured of the support and  availability of departmental managers in charge of water to support the  operationalization of the Charter.<\/p>\n<p>Several recommendations were made at the end including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>presenting the charter to the Water and Sanitation sector review and  request the review to take a recommendation to ask the actors to join;<\/li>\n<li>carrying out a baseline study at the starting of the implementation of the charter;<\/li>\n<li>having the assistance of a specialist to clarify the charter formalizing procedures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2015, the Country Water Partnership of Benin (Benin CWP) initiated with the support of the Water Integrity Network (WIN) the development of a charter for good governance in the frame of the Multiannual Programme for the promotion of integrity in the area of water and sanitation in Benin. A working group with the support of a consultant led the drafting process of the Charter. From October 2015 to date, the Charter was developed, and stakeholders were consulted on its contents as well as its operationalization mechanism that was also developed.<br 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