Water

Water Financing Partnership Facility
Supported Projects

The Facility finances activities designed to result in significantly more people in Asia and the Pacific region enjoying access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation, higher productivity and efficiency of irrigation and drainage services, coupled with the integrated management of water resources in river basins for sustained economic growth and environmental improvement.

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The activities supported by the WFPF can be clustered as follows:

	Component 1: Increasing levels of water investment prepare projects (project preparatory technical assistance [PPTAs]) resulting in fundable investment proposals carry out water sector assessment as a basis to dialogue with government and agree on a water sector agenda and investment plans facilitate a more targeted participation of civil society in project design, implementation, and evaluation View the progress.
	Component 2: Accelerating Policy and Institutional Reforms enhance policy, legislation, and regulations assess progress and impacts of reforms strengthen coordination mechanisms facilitate reform process such as the establishment or strengthening of national water sector apex bodies engage civil society View the progress.
	Component 3: Strengthening Institutional Capacity and Expanding Knowledge Base implement pilot and demonstration activities that produce new and innovative approaches, strategies and technologies undertake capacity development interventions targeted at key water sector organizations, e.g. water utilities, river basin organization, and apex bodies develop knowledge products establish or strengthen knowledge partnerships, regional cooperation, and civil society participation View the progress.

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Beyond supporting the production and implementation of the above outputs, the WFPP also works to provide added value to the processes leading to these outputs. For instance, WFPF works to

• facilitate fast decision making, i.e. WFPF has the water services expert pool facility that facilitates short-term engagement of experts to help in project design. It also has the direct charging modality, which fast tracks access to WFPF resources.
• provide greater assurance of outcomes, i.e. by increasing country commitments through sector assessments and investment dialogues with government.
• reach the underserved, i.e. by facilitating preparation of additional projects (PPTAs) and leveraging more resources from partners;
• boost innovations and business unusual, i.e. pilot and demonstration activities, knowledge products, knowledge events
• be more strategic by addressing specific and priority issues such as gender, climate change, and sanitation.

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As of December 2008, the projects supported by the WFPF are expected to yield the following outcomes:

• provide 15 million people with access to safe water and sanitation
• ensure that 10 million people live with reduced risks to floods
• provide 2 million people with access to improved irrigation and drainage facilities
• introduce integrated water resources management in the following river basins: Brahmani, Ciliwung-Cisadane, Citarum, Ciujung, and Vu Gia-Thu Bon.

They are also expected to improve various aspects of water governance, for instance

• improving water resources management through enhanced stakeholder participation in the operations and management of water resources infrastructures
• linking country-wide water sector investment to the planning process
• enhancing disaster risk management to incorporate flood risk management
• improving regulation and facilitating private sector participation in urban water supply delivery
• establishing a national strategy to establish a market-based ecological service payment system

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Karen Decker
Principal Financing Partnerships Specialist
E-mail: kdecker@adb.org