The 1^st regional workshop on Safe Use of Wastewater in Agriculture took place on February 18-19, 2012, in Marrakech, Morocco.

Following up on the impetus and the priorities identified at the international kick-off workshop in Bonn in November 2011, the 1st regional workshop for Francophone and Northern Africa was held in Morocco. UNW-DPC took the lead in organizing this 1st regional workshop. It was part of the multi-year project together with FAO, WHO, UNEP, UNU-INWEH and UNW-DPC, in collaboration with ICID and IWMI, on the “Safe Use of Wastewater in Agriculture.” The project concluded with an international wrap-up event in June 2013 in Tehran, Iran.

Click here to download the Project Concept Note 

Poster for the Workshop

Participating Countries:
Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Togo, and Tunisia

Facilitators:
Javier Mateo-Sagasta, Jean Boroto (FAO) with Ingo Heinz (TU Dortmund)
Avinash Tyagi (ICID)
Mustapha Mahi (UNEP)
Joseph Ajayi (UNEP)
Manzoor Qadir (UNU-INWEH, IWMI)
Reza Ardakanian, Jens Liebe (UNW-DPC)

Materials

1. Background Materials

Workshop Agenda (En)
Workshop Agenda (Fr)
Questionnaire on assessment of 'Capacity Needs'
Result of the Survey on assessment of 'Capacity Needs'

2. National Reports

3. WHO Guidelines and Reference Material

Documents
Videos

4. eLectures

• 208x124 Title: Introduction to FAO
  Speaker: Javier Mateo-Sagasta, FAO
  Duration: 00:12:40 min
• 208x124 Title: Introduction to UNU-INWEH
  Speaker: Manzoor Qadir, UNU-INWEH
  Duration: 00:10:57 min
• 207x124 Title: Introduction to UNEP
  Speaker: Joseph Ajayi, UNEP
  Duration: 00:10:34 min
• 208x124 Title: Introduction to ICID
  Speaker: Avinash Tyagi, ICID
  Duration: 00:05:19 min
• 208x124 Title: Introduction to UNW-DPC
  Speaker: Jens Liebe, UNW-DPC
  Duration: 00:10:22 min
• 208x124 Title: Water reuse National Planning
  Speaker: Javier Mateo-Sagasta, FAO
  Duration: 00:12:46 min
• 209x124 Title: The Wealth of Waste
  Speaker: Ingo Heinz, FAO
  Duration: 00:16:48 min
• 209x124 Title: Health Risk Assessment and Mitigation where Wastewater Treatment does not Work
  Speaker: Manzoor Qadir, UNU-INWEH
  Duration: 00:23:17 min
• 208x123 Title: Environmental Impacts of Wastewater
  Speaker: Joseph Ajayi, UNEP
  Duration: 00:11:49 min
• 208x124 Title: Wastewater Management Technologies
  Speaker: Joseph Ajayi, UNEP
  Duration: 00:20:55 min
• 215x96 Title: Wastewater use in Irrigation: Needs for policy integration
  Speaker: Avinash Tyagi, ICID
  Duration: 00:49:15 min
• 209x124 Title: Awareness raising and national strategies
  Speaker: Jens Liebe and Miranda Pieron, UNW-DPC
  Duration: 00:42:32 min
• 209x124 Title: Stratégie du secteur de l’eau et mise en œuvre de la réutilisation des eaux usées épurées
  Speaker: Makkokh
  Duration: 00:05:09 min

5. Photogallery

Link to Project Page

Link to Kick-Off Workshop, Germany

Link to 2^nd Regional Workshop for South, West and Central Asia

Link to 3^rd Regional Workshop for Anglophone Africa

Link to 4^th Regional Workshop for Latin America and the Caribbean

Link to 5^th Regional Workshop for Southeast and Eastern Asia

International Wrap-up Event