104 The Future of Water in African Cities
holder platform should be established early on, involving expert coordination, facilitation, and a monitoring and evaluation process. This platform should be created with the support of the stakeholders already identified in this study (for example, city councilors, NWSC, urban planners, environment agencies, and upstream community representatives), as it can build on the outcomes of the two workshops already undertaken. The stakeholder participatory process could adopt the learning alliance approach, developed during the SWITCH project. Arua stakeholders have shown keen interest in concrete next steps. This might reflect the reality that Arua has an acute seasonal water scarcity and a water quality issue, and that conventional surface-water solutions will be costly. As was the case for Mbale, an email was received from the acting CEO of NWSC who requested identification of concrete next steps for follow-up.