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FINANCING COOPERATIONCollaboration with the World BankCollaboration between AfDB, the World Bank and WSPwas formalized in 2006 and led to a WSP liaison officebeing opened at AfDB headquarters in Tunis in 2007for a three-year period. Collaboration during this periodincluded the following.On knowledge sharing and capacity building, jointworkshops were held and joint publications produced.At the operational level, there were joint supervisionmissions with appraisals in eight countries and mutualcontributions to project preparation. There were also 12joint sector reviews, joint financing of budgetary reviewsin three countries and co-financing of water sectorprojects in seven countries.AfricaSan 2008 led to a joint review of the sanitationand hygiene status in 32 countries and the eThekwiniDeclaration with its call for country action plans toaddress the sanitation MDG. The first Africa Water Weekresulted in outputs endorsed by the African Union andG8 summits. AfDB and WSP contributed to the launch ofthe Pan-African Monitoring and Evaluation Assessmentin Tunis in 2006. Country Status Overviews werecarried out in 16 countries and a Sector InformationManagement Workshop was held in Nairobi in 2007.Credit rating assessments were produced for sevenAfrican utilities with a view to contributing towardsincreased operational efficiency and preparing waterutilities for accessing market finance. WSP and AWFalso supported the setting up of the Water OperatorsPartnership – Africa.AfDB is continuing its cooperation with the WorldBank on WSS issues. Current plans include jointfinancing of the Port Harcourt Urban Water Supplyand Sanitation Project in Nigeria, joint support for awater sector SWAp in Ethiopia and a joint programmeevaluation mission in Tanzania.A working session between AfDB and WSP in TunisImage: AfDBon aid effectiveness, AfDB is playing an increasingly prominent rolein donor coordination activities and in joint sector operations suchas sector reviews, especially in those countries where a sector-wideapproach (SWAp) is being implemented.AfDB values cooperation with non-governmental organizations(NGOs) in view of their positive impacts on project developmentand implementation. For example, on the Kibera Water Supplyand Sanitation Programme in Kenya, NGOs with expertise inslum areas are engaged in capacity building and coordination ofthe construction of water and sewer lines and ablution blocks. TheNGOs’ intervention has enabled the bank and the water utility tobetter address a number of social issues including the resettlementof displaced persons. Cooperation with NGOs is also common onrural water supply and sanitation projects financed by AfDB, as theyare often involved in working with communities on project planningand implementation.Cooperation through trust fundsTrust funds provide an additional technical and financial instrumentfor cooperation and support, complementing AfDB’s traditionallending activities. The Water and Sanitation Department (OWAS)manages three trust funds, each contributing in different waystowards the bank’s objectives.The Multi Donor Water Partnership Programme (MDWPP), establishedin 2002, has been supported by three donors (Canada, Denmarkand the Netherlands) and has the broad objective of operationalizingAfDB’s IWRM policy within the bank and in the RMCs. The MDWPPsupports the work of several sector departments includingOWAS, Agriculture and Agribusiness, NEPAD andRegional Integration, and Energy, Environment andClimate Change (ONEC). The MDWPP has contributedsignificantly towards strengthening AfDB’s IWRMcapacity, building awareness of IWRM issues within andoutside the bank, improving knowledge on IWRM issuesand facilitating sector dialogue.As part of its role in leveraging funds for Africa’s watersector, AfDB supported AMCOW to establish the AfricanWater Facility (AWF) in 2004. AWF represents a majorcooperation effort between 15 bilateral donors, multilateralfinancial institutions, foundations and Africangovernments (Algeria, Australia, Austria, the Bill andMelinda Gates Foundation, Burkina Faso, Canada,Denmark, the European Union, France, Norway, Senegal,Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and AfDB). It ishosted and managed by the bank. AWF mainly supportsproject preparation designed to attract follow-up investment.By the end of 2012 it had attracted EUR20 forevery euro invested, bringing the total financing leveragedto EUR714 million.AWF is implementing much of AfDB’s work intransboundary water resources management (TWRM)across the continent by promoting the developmentof cooperative legislative frameworks for effectiveTWRM, strengthening inter-basin and intra-basin[ 161 ]