Areas of intervention

The African Water Facility generally focuses its efforts at achieving its objective of resource mobilisation and applying these for activities in the African water sector with the view to improving the enabling environment to attract more investments and direct capital investments.

The specific focus is on fostering Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) at the national level and Transboundary Water Resources Management (TWRM) at the regional level.

AWF’s areas of intervention are very broad and cover the potential activities to be financed by AWF. The Governing Council determines the operational focus and areas of intervention of the Facility in accordance with its mandate.

Based on the policy direction pursued by the Council, the annual and multiyear operational programme of the Facility will be accordingly prepared, and submitted to the AfDB Board of Directors for approval, after consultation with the Governing Council.

AWF supports capacity building at both the National and Regional levels and includes especially the development of national institutions and improving organizational capacity.

In addition, support can be provided for national human resources development including applied research and formal education as well as river basin organisations (RBO) and regional and sub-regional institutional capacity building activities.

AWF supports policy, legal and institutional reform processes as part of its overall objective of developing the overall enabling environment in the water sector in Africa. This includes:

• The Prioritization of Water in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP’s)
• The National Action Plans to meet the Millennium Development Goals
• The formulation of national water policies
• The design of the water sector and institutional strengthening
• The development of water sector investment strategies and related programmes
• The drafting of legislation and the design of related sector reforms
• The development of public-private and public-public partnerships.