The Africa Urban Sanitation Investment Fund (AUSIF) To significantly mobilise the financial resources and to develop a pipeline of investment projects that will support the African countries to meet the SDG targets in urban sanitation

The project will promote the adaptation and much wider application of tested approaches as well as support fine-tuning developed business innovations leading to robust affordable and financially and environmentally sustainable sanitation services for urban inhabitants in sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on the urban poor. The project will directly target 2 million urban dwellers and indirectly target another 6 million through the implementation of the prepared sub-projects. The project has 4 main components that are well aligned with the AWF 2017 – 2022 Strategy: (i) Establishment of an Africa Urban Sanitation Investment Fund (AUSIF) (ii) Investment Project Preparation: (iii) Catalytic Investments; and (iv) Investment Promotion.

The purpose of the programme is to significantly mobilise the financial resources and to develop a pipeline of investment projects that will support the African countries to meet the SDG targets in urban sanitation.

Mission

The objectives are the following (i) Establishing the Africa Urban Sanitation Investment Fund (AUSIF) (ii) Develop a pipeline of Investment Projects: (iii) Promote Catalytic Investments that can attract additional funding from Private sector and other Partners and Governments; and (iv) Promoting Investment to mobilise more funding for the sector.

Approach

The Programme officially launched June 4, 2018. Research or implementation partners: AfWA, AMCOW, Speak Up Africa

Further comments

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Website of African Water Facility

BMGF grant database (brief information)

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Decentralised wastewater treatment (e.g. DEWATS)Faecal sludge treatment processesUrban (entire city)Urban informal settlements (slums)Multilateral organisationMarket developmentCitiesPolitical processes and institutional aspectsSpecific to one or several countriesEnabling environment and institutional strengtheningOtherBill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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