The IRC Support Group to the European Union Water Initiative (EUWI) Africa Working Group (AWG) contributed to two new briefing notes to help policy and decision makers implement some of the high level declarations that call for accelerated progress to meet sanitation and water targets in Africa.
Published on: 02/08/2011
US$ 11 billion is needed annually to meet Africa’s water and sanitation needs; this is the gap that is not met by national budgets and donor aid. Insufficient political prioritisation by African leaders, weak sector capacity to develop and implement effective plans and strategies, and uncoordinated and inadequate investments inhibit many African countries from making effective use of aid. This and the international financial landscape add urgency to the need to make aid more effective; recipient countries and donors need to optimise aid for water and sanitation.
The IRC Support Group to the European Union Water Initiative (EUWI) Africa Working Group (AWG) contributed to two new briefing notes to help policy and decision makers implement some of the high level declarations that call for accelerated progress to meet sanitation and water targets in Africa.:
The Briefing Note "Aid Effectiveness and Africa" is a document resulting from the EUWI/AWG Aid Effectiveness seminar held at the Stockholm World Water Week 2010. Enormous challenges still exist for recipient countries to access and make effective use of aid. This Briefing Note lists a number of crucial issues that need to be addressed as well as recommendations for the sector.
EUWI-AWG_BN_Aid_ Effectiveness EN.pdf (413.24 kB)
The Briefing Note “Mapping EU Support for Sanitation in Africa” is based on a full study by the UK based Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC). The purpose of the study is to obtain an overview of the status of the involvement of EU Member States and the European Commission in sanitation-related activities in Africa. It is anticipated that this will be useful for arguing for greater priority for sanitation within international organisations and for individual donors to use in discussing their own official development assistance (ODA).
minimised_pdf_EUWI-AWG_BN-San_Map_EN.pdf (759.47 kB)
The full PDF report is available on the EUWI website.
Dick de Jong
