1. Overview of Bank Water Sector Activities
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2. Strengthen the data and information base
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
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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
African Water Facility focuses on developing or strengthening the enabling environment (policy, institutional reform, capacity building, stakeholder participation; gender and environmental components
NEPAD focuses on supporting trans-boundary water development and management
RWSSI will extend coverage for WSS in rural Africa through new infrastructure or rehabilitation of existing infrastructure
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4. Framework For Bank Water Sector Activities
Bank Vision Strategic Sectors Agric and Rural Develop; Health & Education; Regional Integration; Environment & Gender
African Water Vision Overarching strategic framework
Water Governance; Water wisdom; meeting basic needs; finance
NEPAD
promotion of regional integration
Bank Group Strategic Plan Strategic focus on WSS, agricultural water use and hydro-energy
AMCOW
Political and Strategic Leadership
NEPAD Infrastructure
Programme
IWRM Policy Overarching Principles and Policy Framework Economic; Social and Environmental Use
Water Partnership Programme
Bank capacity building operation support
Other multilateral, bilateral, govern
AWF: Financing Facilitation and small scale Investment
RWSSI
Coverage of 80% of rural pop by 2015
NEPAD Water & Sanitation Programme Multi national programmes focusing on water security
Bank Water Sector Operation
Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management in Africa
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5. IWRM POLICY
Adopted in 2000
Integrated Approach : Optimized Management for Economic, Social and Environmental use
Strategies
Institutional Strategies
Economic and Financial
Environmental
Social
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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;
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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.
Facilitating knowledge sharing. 
Developing sector governance
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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.
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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
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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
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11. RWSSI : Implementation Modalities
Short term plan raise coverage to 50%
Medium Term Plan raise coverage to 66%
Long term Plan raise coverage to 80%
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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
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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
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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
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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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16. Water Development is key to Economic and Social Progress in Africa!
THANK YOU !
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