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World Water Day 2023: Accelerating Change in Africa’s Water Sector through Multisectoral Partnerships and Investments
22 March 2023
Mtchera Johannes Chirwa, Coordinator, African Water Facility
Every year on 22nd March, the world celebrates World Water Day, and we examine the realities and complexities surrounding water access. We also promote activities in the use and management of water and make necessary adjustment to...
Africa Urban Sanitation Investment Initiative (AUSII)
21 March 2023
The African Water Facility (AWF) has published an updated investment case which aims to mobilize resources to finance the continuing implementation of its revised strategy for 2017-2025.
First launched in March 2022, the updated investment case incorporates the Africa Urban Sanitation Investment...
Request for Expressions of Interest: Individual Coordination Consultant for Africa Urban Sanitation Investment Initiative (AUSII)
21 March 2023
The African Water Facility (AWF) invites expressions of interest from high calibre, suitably qualified and experienced Individual Consultants to coordinate the Operationalisation of the Africa Urban Sanitation Investment Initiative (AUSII) within the African Water Facility (AWF).
The services to be...
Appel a Proposition: Projets d’eau et d’assainissement Résilient au Changement Climatique
19 March 2023
La Facilité africaine de l'eau s'est lancée dans un exercice rigoureux pour élargir et constituer une solide réserve de projets bancables pour financer et permettre la mobilisation de financements supplémentaires pour le secteur de l'eau et de l'assainissement en Afrique. Ceci est à l'appui de la...
Call for Proposals: Climate Resilient Water and Sanitation Projects
10 March 2023
The African Water Facility has embarked on a rigorous exercise to expand and build a strong pipeline of bankable projects for financing and enabling mobilisation of additional funding for the water and sanitation sector in Africa. This is in support of Africa Water Vision 2025, African Union Agenda...
The African Water Facility launches Investment Case to raise €62.15 million ($70.64 million) by 2023 to fund revised strategy
08 March 2023
Abidjan, 8 March 2023
First issued in March 2022. Update of March 2023 incorporates provisions for the African Urban Sanitation Investment Fund (AUSIF), now to be hosted and managed by the African Development Bank and African Water Facility.
The African Water Facility announced a new investment...
African Water Facility Approves a €4.9 million Grant for Drinking Water and Climate-Resilient WASH Services in Burkina Faso
19 January 2023
The African Water Facility approved on 16 December 2022, a grant of €4.9 million for PHEPA–8P – Promotion of Hygiene, Drinking Water, Sanitation and Strengthening of the Resilience of the Population to Covid-19 and Climate Change in Rural Areas In Eight (8) Provinces in Burkina Faso.
Targeted at...
La Facilité africaine de l'eau et le Fonds africain de développement viennent d’octroyer un don de 7,640,590 d’Euro pour soutenir des services d'eau potable et d'assainissement résilients au changement climatique au Niger
21 December 2022
La Facilité africaine de l'eau et le Fonds africain de développement viennent d’octroyer un don de 7,640,590 d ’Euro pour un projet de quatre ans visant à soutenir des services d'eau potable et d'assainissement résilients au climat, dans quatre régions rurales du Niger.
Le projet vise à améliorer...
The African Water Facility and African Development Fund approve €7.6 million grant to support Climate Resilient Drinking Water and Sanitation Services in Niger
21 December 2022
The African Water Facility and the African Development Fund have approved a grant of €7,640,590 for a four-year project to support climate resilient drinking water and sanitation services, in four rural regions of Niger.
The project aims to improve access of rural and vulnerable populations in...
The African Water Facility approves €362,000 grant for the Preparation of a Strategic Action Plan for Water Resources Development under Komadugu-Yobe Basin Project Phase II
19 December 2022
Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, 19 December 2022
The African Water Facility has approved a grant of €362,000 to finance the "Preparation of a Strategic Action Plan for Water Resources Development in the Komadugu-Yobe Basin Project Phase II – Additional Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Studies”...