Public meeting VIA Water - programme on water innovation in African cities


On 20 February, VIA Water - Programme on water innovation in African cities - organizes its very first official public meeting. You are all warmly invited!

VIA Water aims to identify innovative solutions for water problems facing cities in seven African countries: Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda and South Sudan. These countries are priorities within Dutch overseas development policy. The programme was commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs as one of five knowledge platforms for each key priority in Dutch overseas development policy.

Since the start of the programme, VIA Water has received many questions on how the programme works. People are keen to know what sort of innovations it is looking for, what the procedure for the VIA Water fund is like and how they can contribute to the programme. In this event, VIA Water will get into all of those questions in an interactive way, and all your ideas and suggestions are to be discussed.

Please click here for the invitation, including the programme. For registration, click here.

Getting there

Because of its pioneering character, YES!Delft can be a little tricky to reach by public transport. Your best option is an OV-bicycle from the Delft train station (membership required, www.ov-fiets.nl). Otherwise, there are several busses you can take from Delft station: number 40 and number 69 (get off at TU Kluyverpark) and bus 174 (get off at TNO Zuidpolder). Please check the bus schedules for your way back, as the buses run less regularly during non-rush hours.

If you are planning to arrive by car, please park at the 3M company, which is a little walk from YES!Delft at Molengraaffsingel 29. When you arrive at YES!Delft, drive past it, keeping YES!Delft to your right. Turn right after passing YES!Delft, and park at the parking lot you see. Of course this is not applicable for those with reduced mobility: there are a few parking spaces available at YES!Delft itself.

Date, time and location

20 February 2015
9.00 - 13.00 (lunch included). Programme starts at 10.00
YES!Delft, Molengraaffsingel 12, Delft