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URL Applying for Funding of the GPOBA

GPOBA funding is open to general application from international financial institutions, bilateral donors, NGOs, public and private infrastructure operators, and national and local governments.

URL Belgian Technical Cooperation - Belgian Development Cooperation Agency BTC is the Belgian development cooperation agency. As a public service provider, and on behalf of the Federal Public Service of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, BTC supports developing countries in their fight against poverty. Thanks to her field expertise BTC also provides services on behalf of other national and international organisations contributing to sustainable human development. BTC is managing more than 230 programs in 25 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. With a planned turnover in 2006 of 180 million euro, BTC is employing 350 staff, 140 of them at headquarters in Brussels and 210 in countries where projects and programmes are being implemented. BTC has 23 representations abroad.
URL Bunyah GCC Infrastructure Fund
  1. Bunyah GCC Infrastructure Fund will make investments in the GCC and MENA region
  2. Target investment include potable water and waste water processing facilities
  3. Public Private Partnership (PPP) type transaction structures including BOT, BOO,  BOOT
  4. Project size in excess of US$150m
  5. Government sponsored as well as private sector sponsored transactions/projects

“A recently established infrastructure fund sponsored by Kuwait Investment Company is targeting investments in the water sector in the GCC and MENA region.  The US$400m Bunyah GCC Infrastructure Fund is managed by Instrata Capital in Bahrain and will target investments in potable water and waste water projects as well as other types of utility, transportation and industrial infrastructure.  The fund is already evaluating investments in the GCC and typically works with major international and regional companies with experience in the water sector.  Instrata Capital works on projects at all stages of development and is also evaluating opportunities in water privatisation.  Interested parties should contact Mr. Simon Monk at Instrata Capital – www.instratacapital.com.”
URL European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development was established in 1991 when communism was crumbling in central and eastern Europe and ex-soviet countries needed support to nurture a new private sector in a democratic environment. Today the EBRD uses the tools of investment to help build market economies and democracies in countries from central Europe to central Asia.

Every EBRD investment must:
Help move a country closer to a full market economy: the transition impact
Take risk that supports private investors and does not crowd them out
Apply sound banking principles

Through its investments, the EBRD promotes:
Structural and sectoral reforms
Competition, privatisation and entrepreneurship
Stronger financial institutions and legal systems
Infrastructure development needed to support the private sector
Adoption of strong corporate governance, including environmental sensitivity

Functioning as a catalyst of change, the EBRD:
Promotes co-financing and foreign direct investment
Mobilises domestic capital
Provides technical assistance

URL KFW Bank
URL USTDA: US Trade & Development Agency The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) advances economic development and U.S. commercial interests in developing and middle-income countries. The agency funds various forms of technical assistance, early investment analysis, training, orientation visits and business workshops that support the development of a modern infrastructure and a fair and open trading environment. USTDA's strategic use of foreign assistance funds, to support sound investment policy and decision-making in host countries, creates an enabling environment for trade, investment and sustainable economic development. In carrying out its mission, USTDA gives emphasis to economic sectors that may benefit from U.S. exports of goods and services.

MENA region. Examples:

Jordan:

Water Resource Management – USTDA is funding a $319,000 technical assistance grant to the Aqaba Water Company to improve management and efficiency of Jordan's scarce water resources. The grant will fund the creation of a comprehensive hydraulic analysis of the Disi Aquifer well field, which serves as the main source of drinking water to the city of Aqaba. The analysis will also determine the feasibility of implementing a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system to monitor and operate the entire well network.

Zarqa River Wastewater Treatment – USTDA is providing a $335,000 grant to the Jordanian Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, acting through the Jordanian Ministry of Environment, to fund the cost of a feasibility study (FS) on an improved wastewater collection and treatment system to serve the communities of the Zarqa River Basin in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The FS will include a strategic examination of the existing wastewater treatment system in the project area, as well as a thorough demand analysis and assessment of the treatment needs posed by increased infrastructure development in the Zarqa River Basin. The FS will recommend the most appropriate technical solution required to meet the growing wastewater treatment demands in the project area.

URL World Bank Improving water supply and sanitation (WSS) is key to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals. It is at the core of the World Bank’s mission to reduce poverty. The World Bank is the world's largest external financier of water supply and sanitation and is recognized as a lead agency in terms of sector knowledge and analytics. This web site provides information on what we do in terms of strategy and policies, lending portfolio, and knowledge and learning. It also presents our work by topic and by region.
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