Codes of conduct for water sector

Emerging good practice on Codes of Conduct, Partnership Principles and Memorandums of Understanding in the Water Sector

This paper is based on experience and best practice from six different African countries in the development of codes of conduct, partnership principles and memorandums of understanding in the water sector. The five countries are:

Burkina Faso, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda and Zambia. The paper is inspired by the outcome and deliberations of a seminar run by the Ministry of Water Resources and Public Works in Ghana in March 2010 and commented on by a number of EU delegations and other parties.

The purpose of the paper is to guide practitioners in implementing the sector approach in the water sector. The paper is directed towards EU delegations that are involved or likely to be involved in supporting the water sector. It might also be found relevant to delegations supporting other multi-actor sectors such as agriculture, rural development, environment

and natural resources.