Overview of Bank Water Sector Activities

1. Overview of Bank Water Sector Activities

2. Main Challenges • Build strategic infrastructure to ensure basic water security for social; economic and environmental use • Management of trans-boundary water resources for regional benefit • Provide safe and adequate water and sanitation services • Building institutions and human capacity • Mobilising finance for institution and infrastructure development • Strengthen the data and information base

3. Key Challenges - Bank Response • Policy and Strategic Frameworks: • IWRM Policy; • African Water Vision and Framework For Action; • Water Partnership Programs. • Regional Water Initiatives: • NEPAD • RWSSI • AWF • Enhanced coordination and partnership

4. Framework For Bank Water Sector Activities Bank Vision Strategic SectorsAgric and Rural Develop; Health & Education; Regional Integration; Environment & Gender African Water VisionOverarching strategic framework Water Governance; Water wisdom; meeting basic needs; finance NEPAD promotion of regional integration Bank Group Strategic Plan 2003 -2007Strategic focus on WSS, agricultural water use and hydro-energy AMCOW Political and Strategic Leadership NEPAD Infrastructure Programme IWRM PolicyOverarching Principles and Policy Framework Economic; Social and Environmental Use Water Partnership Programme Bank capacity building operation support AWF: Financing Facilitation and small scale Investment Other multilateral, bilateral, govern RWSSI Coverage of 80% of rural pop by 2015 NEPAD Water & Sanitation ProgrammeMulti national programmes focusing on water security Bank Water Sector Operation Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management in Africa

5. IWRM POLICY • Adopted in 2000 • Integrated Approach : Optimized Management for Economic, Social and Environmental use • Strategies • Institutional Strategies • Economic and Financial • Environmental • Social

6. MDWPP : IWRM Policy Opertionalisation • Strengthening Bank capacity and internal process • strengthening the linkages and relationships between the Bank and other stakeholders • enhancing the Bank’s operations capacity through the development of project cycle management tools, sectoral guidelines and procedures; • strengthening competence and awareness, policy and strategic frameworks for orienting investment programme in the sector; • strengthening the capacity of Bank’s staff through acquiring and managing new skills, knowledge and information;

7. NEPAD Water and Sanitation Programme • Bank Responsible for advising NEPAD on Infrastructure • Promoting regional integration for economic development • Enabling environment for cooperation • Development of regional infrastructure • Major Role in : • Mobilizing political will and actions • Facilitating the mobilization of resources. • Facilitatingknowledge sharing.  • Developing sector governance

8. NEPAD Programme : Approach • Preparation of a Short-Term Action Plan (STAP - 5 to 7 years) • Enabling Environment for Regional Co- operation; • Support for National IWRM Policies; • Meeting Urgent Water Needs; • Improving Water Wisdom, and • Strengthening the Financial • Preparation of a Medium and Long-term Action Strategic Framework (Looking 30 years ahead) • Water Resources Development • Expansion of Water and Sanitation services • Enhanced Financing for Water Development.

9. NEPAD - Transboundary Water Resources • Major River Basins • Niger and Senegal in West Africa; • Congo, and Lake Chad in Central Africa; • /Okavango &Zambezi in Southern Africa; • Nile in East Africa • Shared aquifers and desertification in North Africa. • National and regional water security

10. Rural Water & Sanitation Initiatives - RWSSI • RWSSI is a framework for the international community to combine efforts with Africa to provide improved WSS for and additional 276 million African rural dwellers • Primary objective is to increase African rural population access to WSS from 47% to 80% by 2015. • Countries expected to own and be accountable

11. RWSSI : Implementation Modalities • Short term plan - 2004-07 raise coverage to 50% • Medium Term Plan - 2008-10 raise coverage to 66% • Long term Plan - 2011-15 raise coverage to 80%

12. African Water Facility - AWF Background • The recommendation to establish the AWF was made at the Accra Stakeholders Conference organized by the African Water Task Force in April 2002. Goals • The main goal of the AWF is to contribute to poverty reduction through improved access to water and sanitation within the context of the AWV and the MDGs and based on the principles of IWRM. Targets • The Facility targets to contribute to the MDG achievement in Africa

13. AWF : Medium Term Action Plan (2005-2009) • Support for facilitation of enabling environment • integrated water resources management planning; • policy and institutional reform; • capacity building; • Information and Knowledge; • environmental management; • monitoring and evaluation. • Investment in capital projects and programmes • program and project preparation • innovative pilot projects to develop local water technology • small scale projects reinforcing efforts of communities, NGOs, water user associations and other actors • Leveraging of main stream investment

14. Bank Water Sector Operations • Investment of about USD 5.7 billion over the past 37 years • Multi Purpose Water projects • Agricultural water use • Water Supply and Sanitation • Support for national strategies and river basin master plans • Support transboundary water resources management

15. Data and Information Need • Critical factor and huge challenge • Knowledge of resources occurrence and distribution • Knowledge of socio-ecological relationships and factors as an input for sustainable development • Data and information for IWRM planning and implementation • Continuous monitoring and impact assessment

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