The Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) global partnership is organising a meeting of African ministers of finance to agree on smart investments in water, sanitation and hygiene for the region.
The 2-hour meeting billed for 4th November will be live streamed and simultaneously interpreted in English and French.

The meetings will underscore the crucial role of water, sanitation and hygiene to the African economy, population and environment during and after Covid-19, and will offer ministers practical options for financing the sector.

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The Africa FMM is one of three regional finance ministers’ meeting to be organized by SWA in 2020: Latin America and the Caribbean on 18 November, and Asia and the Pacific on 2 December.

The SWA Africa FMM will be co-convened by global partners UNICEF and the Global Water Practice of the World Bank, as well as regional partners, the African Development Bank and the African Ministers’ Council on Water.

The SWA Africa FMM is preceded by a 2-month preparatory process that relies on multi-stakeholder dialogue at country level to ensure that finance and sector ministers are briefed and ready to actively participate in the FMM.

Modestus Anaesoronye is a leading Nigerian financial journalist with over two decades of experience reporting on the insurance and pension sectors across Nigeria and West Africa. He has held key editorial positions at major national media outlets, including The Comet, The Nation, and Financial Standard, and currently serves as a Senior Financial Analyst at BusinessDay Media Ltd. A widely travelled reporter, he has covered industry developments in more than 14 countries across Africa and Asia. Anaesoronye is a multiple award-winning journalist, honoured several times as Insurance Journalist of the Year and Pension Journalist of the Year by recognised industry bodies, including PensionScope and the Pension Fund Operators Association of Nigeria (PenOp), among others.

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