The document summarizes activities of the African Water Facility (AWF) including: 1) AWF has approved 66 projects totaling €79 million in over 28 countries to support water security, adaptation to climate change, and increasing agricultural productivity. 2) Projects focus on integrated water resources management at national and regional levels, and capacity building of river basin organizations. 3) One example project provided water and sanitation services to over 13,000 urban poor residents in Kampala, Uganda through communal facilities and prepaid water meters.

1. GWP NETWORK MEETING AND CONSULTING PARTNERS MEETING 2010 Stockholm, 3-4 September 2010 Akiça Bahri Coordinator, AWF AWF WORK ON WATER SECURITY ISSUES

2. A demand-driven African instrument Smaller upstream projects of up to €5 million with the aim of catalyzing additional funding Innovative and catalytic projects Able to fast track the processing of projects (approval process) Funds targeted to a wide variety of African institutions: NGOs and CBOs, municipalities up to national and regional entities AWF niche The African Water Facility (AWF) is an Instrument for the successful implementation of the Africa Water Vision and Framework for Action for 2025 What is the AWF?

3. Operational Areas Sep 6, 2010

4. AWF timeline 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 - 2010 AWF entry into force Establishing management and operational structures Building project pipeline & Streamlining processing Implementing projects to achieve results & Scaling up to gain critical mass Project approvals and disbursements picking up

5. AWF in Africa AWF tackles in its water projects most of the contemporary challenges, including: Ensuring water security Providing support to fragile States Increasing agricultural productivity Adaptation to climate change impacts

6. Diversity of projects

7. AWF Portfolio (by Sept. 2010) 66 projects approved (€79 million) TOTAL More than 28 countries and 8 regional institutions have benefited from AWF support… Transboundary projects Country projects

8. Complementarity between projects at different levels provide greater, more comprehensive results National level: CAR Water resources information management system Basin: CICOS - Strategic action plan - Information management REC: ECCAS Implementation of the central African water policy Continent-wide: AU Preparation of transboundary infrastructure development strategy Continent-wide: ANBO Capacity building to support BOs

9. IRWM Activities 2006 – 2010 ≈ 50% of the portfolio are IWRM/TWRM-related IWRM Activities Areas of intervention Number of projects 1. Preparation of water resources planning & management frameworks Preparation of IWRM Action Plans (Burundi, Kenya, Mauritania, Niger, Namibia) 5 Preparation of strategic action plans, improvement or sustainable management of basin (Kenya, Congo basin, 3 2. Strengthening capacities to develop IWRM Institutional reform for the development of IWRM at the national level (CAR, Liberia, Gambia) 3 Strengthening the capacities of River Basin Organizations & Regional Organizations (ANBO, Burundi-Rwanda, CICOS, ECCAS, OMVG) 5 Strengthening human resources capacities (Burkina Faso) 1 3. Implementation of IWRM/TWRM plans Development of legal instruments (LCBC, CAR) 2 Development of economic tools & the management of water demand 2 Development of communication and information tools at basin level, regional organizations, and country levels (Senegal, …) 9 4. Monitoring & Evaluation Establishment of water sector M&E frameworks to achieve MDGs (Malawi, Cedare, Northern Sahara aquifer) 3 Total 33

10. Added value of IWRM projects Strengthening of collaboration and synergies among donors through the organization of roundtable meetings in order to finance the implementation of action plans: Congo Basin, Mali, Burundi… Intervention in post-conflict countries, which allowed a better coverage of countries with regard to IWRM development: Liberia, Gambia, Congo basin, Burundi, Rwanda, Togo, CAR Follow-up of actions undertaken by other donors, which made effective the implementation of IWRM Action Plans in some countries: Senegal’s IWRM Action Plan developed with the support of Canada and GWP Mali’s IWRM Action Plan developed with the support of the Netherlands and GWP… Development of cooperation dynamics through the establishment of multi-actors dialogue and inter-institutional frameworks at basin level: Congo basin, the Volta and ANBO

11. Main objective Establish sustainable water supply, sanitation and hygiene promotion services tailored to the needs of an urban poor community Integrated Water and Sanitation Service to the Urban Poor in Kagugube Parish of Kampala Duration: 2008 - 2010 Amount: AWF - €800,000 & NWSC €65,575 Implementer National Water and Sanitation Corporation (in collaboration with Kampala City Council) Context Access to safe water in Kampala is 70%, but around 17% in informal settlements More than 90% of the water samples are contaminated by E-coli bacteria

12. Sanitation services tailored to the needs of the beneficiary population (special focus on excreta mgt at both household and communal levels) - +13,000 to benefit from communal and HH facilities on completion Integrated Water and Sanitation Service to the Urban Poor in Kagugube Parish of Kampala Results Household Communal

13. Integrated WSS for Urban Poor in Kagugube - contd Strengthened institutional management capacity for more effective operation of services to the urban poor : Urban Pro-Poor Branch of NWSC, Kampala City Council Results Improved access to water for the urban poor at official NWSC tariff through pre-paid meters: 13,000 people impacted Use of pre-paid meters provides poor and transient population with affordable and reliable (24 hours) source of water, and has been a useful ‘regulatory tool’ to eliminate overpricing by ‘middlemen’

14. Integrated WSS for Urban Poor in Kagugube Actual water tariffs paid by poor consumers Evolution of Water Tariffs paid by Poor Consumers Water delivered at prepaid meter points is UGSh19.5 for a 20 litre container (US$ 0.47/m 3 ). Before project, poor consumers paid UGSh100-200 to service providers (agents of the utility). This compares to average utility tariff of UGSh 75.00 . Price paid for water before and after project

15. AWF is supporting AMCOW in implementing its Pan African M&E initiative AWF funded activities undertaken in the first half of 2010 include: Approval of a Euro 1.9 million project on strengthening water sector M&E systems in Malawi Approval of a Euro 1.8 million regional project on Water MDG’s Monitoring and Evaluation in North Africa (Center for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe) Pan African M&E Initiative

16. Water for Growth and Development Preparatory activities have been undertaken together with WWC to establish an African initiative to investigate the relationship between water and economic growth and development The outcomes of the study will serve as a basis for justifying actions and augmented investments in the sector In consultation with other sector players, including OECD and GWP, AWF prepared TORs for the research assignment which is expected to start soon Study to be presented at the 6 th World Water Forum in March 2012

17. - EC - Canada France Sweden United Kingdom Senegal AWF Major Funding Partners - Denmark - Norway - Austria Algeria Spain Australia AfDB

18. Experiences & Lessons Learned in implementing AWF Operations There is a large and diverse demand for AWF support The flexibility AWF provides in its interventions is appreciated by beneficiaries The AWF has put in place functional and effective project processing systems Fast-track project processing is a main characteristic of AWF Partnerships for implementation and co-financing

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