Innovate 4 Water is being held on April 26-27 in Nairobi, Kenya. Organized by Waterpreneurs., the event brings together water & sanitation stakeholders who are contributing to the United Nations' SDG 6.
Why it Matters
Sound governance is essential to achieving water security. National governments must make water and sanitation issues a priority, while both national and local governments must create enabling environments that will improve drinking water and sanitation service delivery, improve water sector coordination, mobilize investment, and incentivize management of water resources.
USAID launched on Tuesday in Dakar its project called “USAID WASH-FIN” with funding of $ 5 million.The project is aimed at a sustainable financing of the water, hygiene and sanitation sectors, over a five-year period.
On February 20, 2018, U.S. Ambassador to Senegal Tulinabo Mushingi spoke at the King Fahd Hotel in Dakar to mark the official launch of the USAID WASH-FIN project in the country.
This blog originally appeared on the UrbanLinks website.
According to the 2015 WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme 435 million Africans lacked basic drinking water service, and 736 million Africans lacked basic sanitation service.
In November 2017, the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) took a concrete step toward its role in realizing available and sustainable water and sanitation for all. At the 15th Anniversary Celebration and Executive Committee meetings of AMCOW, ministers from African countries, development partners, and sector stakeholders gathered to review and pass the 2018–2030 Strategic Plan for AMCOW.
Funding Water Security is the fourth in a series of six toolkits from the Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP). This series of toolkits presents an effective and efficient process to address water risks, including long-term water stresses that constrain social and economic development and sudden shocks that can quickly jeopardize the health and livelihoods of vulnerable populations.
This toolkit is designed to improve stakeholder capacity to investigate and evaluate the current and possible sources for funding water security activities in a geographic focus area.
Globally, 663 million people do not have access to safe drinking water and 2.4 billion people lack access to improved sanitation. Governments have set ambitious targets for universal access to water and sanitation by the year 2030, but an unprecedented mobilization of funding will be required to meet this goal. A 2016 analysis by the World Bank estimates that $114 billion per year of capital investment will be required to meet universal access to safely managed water and sanitation services by 2030, or about three times the current investment levels.
The Busia Water & Sewerage Services Company (BUWASSCo) currently only serves just over one-quarter of its population of 784,000 with clean, safe drinking water. That is about to change.
On July 26, KIWASH joined BUWASSCo, Busia County Governor Sospeter Ojaamong, and other county representatives to launch a five-year strategic plan aimed at improving and expanding water services.
