"The Africa/EU partnership is a noble initiative. However in 2002 we together launched the Africa/EU Water Sanitation partnership. Making water a priority. [sic] We need to bring back the water and sanitation partnership since it is not among the eight new partnerships endorsed by the AUC. Africa has played its role in bring water and sanitation on top of the political agenda as priority. In Jan. 2009 AMCOW was integrated into the AU as one of the AU Specialised Technical Committees (STC)." (Quoted from paper)