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Water Financing Partnership Facility
The achievements of the Water Financing Partnership Facility (WFPF) now bear more significance as the COVID-19 pandemic underscores why people need reliable water supply and sanitation services. Moving forward, the facility considers water, sanitation, and hygiene or WASH as one of the priority areas that it could support more to combat COVID-19 transmission and other waterborne diseases.
At A Glance
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Trust Funds
119.8 million
people expected to benefit from WFPF projects
72.8 million
people provided access to improved water supply and sanitation
32.3 million
people with reduced risk of flooding
14.8 million
people with more efficient and productive irrigation and drainage services
50
river basins with support for integrated water resources management
Trust Funds
- Multi-Donor Trust Fund
- Netherlands Trust Fund
- Sanitation Financing Partnership Trust Fund
Contributors
- Australia
- Austria
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- The Netherlands
- Norway*
- Spain
- Switzerland
The Water Financing Partnership Facility (WFPF) has surpassed its overall target impact of at least 115 million project beneficiaries attributable to the facility. This serves as WFPF’s contribution to reaching the ADB Water Financing Program’s target of benefiting 765 million people. As of the end of 2020, 120 million people are expected to benefit from projects supported by the WFPF; completed projects so far have already benefited some 44 million people. Through these completed projects, people in Asia and the Pacific, particularly the poor and the vulnerable, not only enjoy access to water supply and sanitation or improved irrigation and water resources management; but also experience increased income or livelihood. As a result, more are enjoying a better quality of life.
Reinvigorating the Yangtze River
Two investment projects that can revitalize the Yangtze River Economic Belt emerged from a technical assistance facility funded by the Multi-Donor Trust Fund under the Water Financing Partnership Facility. One will help clean up the Xin’an River in Huangshan, Anhui province; the other will restore the Tuan River ecosystem and improve water services in Dengzhou, Henan province.
The WFPF has been an indispensable arm of ADB’s water operations. Since its inception in 2006, it has been a witness to many developments in the sector, in the region and beyond, and in ADB. Some of the major shifts include the transition from the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement, and the arrival of ADB’s Strategy 2030 and its operational priorities, of which water is linked to several priorities.
The achievements of the WFPF, particularly its millions of project beneficiaries to date, now bear more significance as the COVID-19 pandemic underscores why people need reliable water supply and sanitation services. These services lessen the transmission of the disease through proper handwashing and are an essential part of a robust healthcare system.
Moving forward, the WFPF considers water, sanitation, and hygiene or WASH as one of the priority areas it could support more to combat COVID-19 transmission and other waterborne diseases. The facility remains committed to partnerships to help achieve a water-secure and resilient Asia and the Pacific.
Read the WFPF Annual Report 2020.
Multi-Donor Trust Fund (2006)
Total Contributions Committed
$52.4 million
Committed to Projects
$47.8 million for 100 grant component, technical assistance, and direct charges
Contributors
- Australia ($24.4 million)
- Austria ($8.7 million)
- Norway ($4.6 million)
- Spain ($9.5 million; net of $500,000 for water expert)
- Switzerland ($5.1 million)
The Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) prioritizes activities designed to significantly increase people with access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation, and higher productivity and efficiency of irrigation and drainage services. They would also result in more people with reduced risk of flooding; sustainable water resource management; increased knowledge and capacity; and improved sector governance. Norway was a contributor to the MDTF from 2007 to 2017.
Netherlands Trust Fund (2006)
Total Contributions Committed
$44.2 million
Committed to Projects
$37.2 million for 31 projects and direct charges
Contributor
- The Netherlands
The Netherlands Trust Fund (WFPF-NET) prioritizes activities designed to result in significantly more people with access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation, higher productivity, and efficiency of irrigation and drainage services. They will also result in more people with reduced risk of flooding, sustainable management of water resources, increased knowledge and capacity, improved sector governance, and increased focus on water–food security nexus.
Sanitation Financing Partnership Trust Fund (2013)
Total Contributions Committed
$19 million
Committed to Projects
$16.5 million for 16 projects and direct charges
Contributor
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
This fund initially focused on innovative sanitation solutions to increase support for fecal sludge management through non-networked (non-sewered) sanitation and septage management. The focus has now shifted to a more holistic approach through the citywide inclusive sanitation framework to increase access to appropriate sanitation systems, whether sewered or non-sewered, centralized or decentralized, including the required support to increase knowledge and capacity and improve governance.