Euro-Mediterranean Information System on know-how in the Water sector - Banks and funding agencies

Belgian Technical Cooperation - Belgian Development Cooperation Agency

2007-03-20T16:32:24Z

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.

World Bank

2007-03-20T16:32:24Z

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.

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

2007-03-30T10:31:13Z

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

KFW Bank

2007-03-30T10:52:29Z

Applying for Funding of the GPOBA

2007-06-13T10:49:29Z

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

Bunyah GCC Infrastructure Fund

2007-10-29T10:48:36Z

Bunyah GCC Infrastructure Fund will make investments in the GCC and MENA region
Target investment include potable water and waste water processing facilities
Public Private Partnership (PPP) type transaction structures including BOT, BOO, BOOT
Project size in excess of US$150m
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.”

USTDA: US Trade & Development Agency

2008-01-09T18:08:31Z

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.

The EIB’s Water Sector Lending Policy: Strengthening the EIB’s Support to EU Policy Objectives in the Sector, August 2008

2008-08-13T11:28:54Z

Water projects in all their forms constitute an important component to support environmental
protection and sustainable communities, one of the EIB’s six lending objectives inside the EU as
per its Corporate Operational Plan 2008-10, and an increasing share of the EIB’s activities in
Partner Countries. The Bank’s involvement adds significant value to water projects through project
preparation, advisory and technical assistance activities. This is particularly the case in regions
and countries where climate and other conditions increase even more the importance of the
sector. The Bank’s intervention will be predicated on maximizing value added, and priorities will be
determined on this basis.

The EIB provides long-term loan financing to both public and private clients in the water sector,
using a range of instruments. EIB financing has covered investments in all parts of the water
cycle including water abstraction and supply (for household, industrial, and agricultural use),
wastewater treatment and disposal, as well as coastal erosion, flood control and protection, and
hydropower generation. In 2003-07, EIB direct lending to water related projects, excluding
hydropower and irrigation, was around EUR 10bn. Of this, 88% was in the EU-27, making it the
biggest lender to the water sector within the EU. The EIB has also been the largest source of loan
financing to the global water sector to date, compared with other International Financing
Institutions.

Investments in Drinking Water Supply Projects and Related Water Resources Activities-Report to Congress, Fiscal Year 2007.

2008-08-25T11:01:27Z

In FY 2007, USAID exceeded both the worldwide ($200 million) and the Africa ($50 million) Congressional directives, obligating $213 million worldwide for drinking water supply projects and related activities, and obligating almost $104 million for drinking water activities in Africa. This $213 million for FY 2007 represents an increase from the $203 million in FY 2006.

Table of Contents

1. Section 1-A: Introduction and Summary
2. Section 1-B: 2007 Congressional and Agency Background
3. Section 1-C: Overview
4. Section 2-A: "Drinking Water Supply Projects and Related Activities" FY 2007 Obligations
5. Section 2-B: Regional Distribution of FY 2007 Actual Obligations for "Drinking Water Supply Projects and Related Activities" and Results
6. Section 2-C: Programming Trends from FY 2005 and FY 2006 to FY 2007
7. Section 2-D: Drinking Water Supply, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Wastewater Activities
8. Section 3: Water Resources Management Activities
9. Section 4: Water Productivity Activities
10. Section 5: Disaster Risk Reduction Activities
11. Section 6: Overall USAID Water Sector Funding Trends: Water Supply and Sanitation...
12. Section 7: Summary Regional Distribution and Water-related Activity
Distribution of 2007 Estimated Actual Water Obligations
13. Section 8: Appendix

EIB in the water sector: Financing Water Supply and Sanitation

2008-08-27T13:47:36Z

In the light of the objectives assigned to the Bank by its shareholders, the 27 Member States, the EIB has 6 core priority objectives for its lending activity. Water supply and sanitation projects come under the EIB’s environmental priority objective and often support other Bank priority objectives as well. EIB-financed water supply and sanitation projects not only protect and safeguard the natural environment, contribute to people’s welfare, reduce health risks associated with water-borne diseases and protect fragile ecosystems and the diversity of freshwater species, but also support regional development and economic and social cohesion in areas where the lack of infrastructure is a constraint to development.

In 2008, the EIB developed a new lending policy for the water sector. The aim of this policy is to define a set of appropriate policy interventions and actions that will intensify the Bank’s support for the implementation of the EU policy objectives in the sector. The key policy areas defined are:
• Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) including transboundary cooperation;
• Supporting the consolidation of institutional frameworks;
• Adaptation to climate change;
• Water efficiency;
• Development of new water supply;
• Wastewater and sanitation services; and
• Research and innovation.
Although, the EIB already has significant experience of working in many of these policy areas in its operations in the sector, the lending policy reinforces their importance in the face of the new challenges faced by the sector.