African Water Facility

The African Water Facility (AWF) is an initiative led by the African Ministers' Council on Water (AMCOW) to mobilize financial resources for water sector development in Africa. Created in 2004, the AWF is hosted and managed by the African Development Bank (AfDB).

Major objectives of the African Water Facility include attracting and making effective use of increased and appropriate investments needed to achieve national and regional water sector targets in Africa.

Two broad areas of support have been defined in that regard:

Improving the enabling environment to attract more investments
Providing Direct capital investments to trigger larger investments for sustainable development focusing on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) at the national level and Transboundary Water Resources Management (TWRM) at the regional level (AMCOW/NEPAD priorities).

In order to work towards reaching its objectives AWF has elaborated an Operational Strategy and an Indicative Operational Program 2008-2010 which describes its work plan during this period.