Africa Urban Sanitation Investment Initiative (AUSII) aims to increase the scale and impact of investments in urban sanitation services in Africa, by creating an enabling environment and a variety of financing options, tailored to the needs of the recipient countries, for efficient and sustainable investments from development and commercial finance institutions. The initiative is being piloted with urban sanitation projects in seven countries – Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Ghana, Mauritania, Cote d’Ivoire and Togo with a focus on inclusive on-site sanitation, faecal sludge management, development of sanitation masterplans and investment planning.
AUSII operates as a dedicated urban sanitation financing window of the African Water Facility. The window works with non-reimbursable grants and technical assistance and will further introduce reimbursable grants in the form of commercial and concessional blended finance and guarantees.