Press Releases
07/03/2013 - Funded by the African Water Facility (AWF) to the amount of US $3 million, the project designed to rehabilitate the water supply and sewerage systems in Chitungwiza will be handed over today to the Municipality of Chitungwiza, following the completion of the construction works.
Categories: Zimbabwe, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility, Health, Human and Social Development
12/02/2013 - The African Water Facility (AWF) offers a €1.2 million grant to the Monrovia City Corporation (MCC) to support a project aimed at increasing access to sustainable and affordable sanitation and hygiene services to over 800,000 urban slum-dwellers in Monrovia, Liberia.
Categories: Liberia, African Water Facility, Water Supply & Sanitation, Human and Social Development
11/02/2013 - La Facilité africaine de l’eau (FAE) vient d’octroyer un don de 1.1 million d’euros au Gouvernement du Congo pour accroître l’accès à l’eau potable et l’assainissement à environ 100.000 personnes de cinq centres semi-urbains.
Categories: Congo, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility
05/02/2013 - La Facilité africaine de l’eau (FAE) vient d’accorder un don de 1,1 million d’euros à la municipalité de Sèmè-Podji, au Bénin pour mettre en œuvre des solutions efficaces, durables et rentables dans la gestion et l’exploitation des boues de vidange. Le projet s’inscrit dans le cadre d’un partenariat public-privé (PPP) pour la gestion des déchets, une collaboration rare dans le secteur de l’assainissement, sur le continent.
Categories: Benin, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
05/02/2013 - The African Water Facility offered a 1 million euro grant to the Community Integrated Development Initiatives (CIDI) to support their Kawempe Urban Poor Sanitation Improvement Project (KUPSIP). The project is designed to provide affordable and sustainable sanitation services to over 100,000 urban poor living in the Kawempe Municipality, in Kampala, Uganda.
Categories: Uganda, African Water Facility, Water Supply & Sanitation, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
10/12/2012 - An estimated 150,000 people from pastoral communities, including students and teachers from six schools based in Kenya’s Baringo, Kiambu West and Laikipia districts, are to benefit from a €690,000 grant from the African Water Facility (AWF) signed by the African Development Bank (AfDB) on Friday, December 7, after being approved on July 6, 2012.
Categories: Kenya, Environment, African Water Facility, Climate Change, Water Supply & Sanitation, Infrastructure
05/12/2012 - Over 750,000 people from three Darfur states will have improved access to water supply and sanitation through a €3.3 million African Water Facility (AWF) grant. The project was recently launched during two separate ceremonies held on November 25 in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and on November 29 in El Fasher, North Darfur State capital.
Categories: Sudan, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility, Infrastructure
13/11/2012 - Representatives of various local, regional and international development agencies and from different levels of Government met in Ouagadougou to discuss the funding of a sanitation project in the peri-urban areas of Ouagadougou, estimated at €138 million (FCFA 90.5 billion). This project should be completed by 2017 and is expected to improve the lives of an estimated one million people living in the most vulnerable areas of the city.
Categories: Burkina Faso, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility
05/11/2012 - 13 communes des départements de l’Atacora et de Donga au Bénin, verront leur capacité à réaliser et gérer efficacement des infrastructures et services d’eau potable et d’assainissement améliorée grâce à un don de 1 million d’euros de la Facilité africaine de l'eau (FAE) pour soutenir un projet de PROTOS Bénin. Ce don a été approuvé par la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) le 25 octobre 2012, et le projet devrait bénéficier à près de 900 000 habitants.
Categories: Benin, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility
26/09/2012 - The African Development Bank approved on August 29, an African Water Facility (AWF) grant of €950,000 to support a project to help the Government of Zambia develop, test and adopt updated guidelines, which will be used as framework for programming as well as designing the financing, construction and operations of multi-purpose small dams. The dams are expected to directly improve the lives and livelihoods of an estimated 90,000 people, and indirectly benefit about a million people living in rural areas, thus enhancing water security in more vulnerable parts of the country.
Categories: Zambia, African Water Facility, Water Supply & Sanitation, Climate Change, Environment
