Akissa Bahri, coordinator of the African Water Facility (AWF), talks about the AWF role in the implementation of the African Water Vision 2025 and about its success in mobilizing additional financial resources to accelerate the development of the sector.
How can changing the way we manage our water resources transform lives in Africa?
As rural water services provision continues to dwindle in South Africa, the Water Research Commission, through funding from the African Water Facility, launched an initiative to build a community response to issues of access to drinking water in six villages in the Province of Limpopo.
The Training Research and Networking for Development (TREND) a local NGO, received a € 1.1 million grant to finance the construction of a waste treatment plant that can produce about 500 tons of fertilizer per year, and can generate about 580,000 kWh per year of electricity from the biogas produced from the process.
The 14th Governing Council Meeting was held from November 28-29 in Tunis, Tunisia. The meeting brought together over 34 stakeholders and observers, including African Development Bank (AfDB) and AMCOW representatives, representatives from all AWF donors, Water Ministers from two countries and the Principle Secretaries of the Water Ministries of two more countries.
Support for the Establishment for monitoring and reporting system for the water and sanitation sector in Africa.
The AWF held its 15th Governing Council in Abuja, Nigeria, on November 25-27, 2015.