This article was written by Dr Sean Phillips, Director-General of the South African Department of Water and Sanitation, and first published in The Business Day newspaper. A communique issued by the International High-Level Panel on Water Investments for Africa at the...
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SADC-AIP Country Consultations Kick Off
In-country consultative workshops towards the development of a funding proposal for the SADC Regional Climate Resilient Water Investment Programme (SADC-AIP) kicked off in Lesotho on 30 October 2024. Twelve more workshops will take place in Angola, Botswana, Eswatini,...
OP-ED: Private Finance is Essential to Closing Africa’s Water Investment Gap
This article, written by Alex Simalabwi, Executive Secretary of Global Water Partnership Africa Coordination and CEO of the AIP, was first published in the AMCOW Africa's Voices of Water 2024 magazine (download in full here). The Sustainable Signals report published...
Final Communique: AU High-Level Panel on Water Investments for Africa at 79th UNGA
On 23 September 2024 on the margins of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, United States of America, representatives of the African Union Commission, International High-Level Panel on Water Investments for Africa, Republic of South Africa,...
AU Africa Water Investment Platform and AIP Blended Facility Launched
Photo at top shows: Hon. Pemmy Majodina: Minister of Water and Sanitation for South Africa; Hon. Calle Schlettwein: Minister of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform for Namibia; Dr Mohammed Diatta: Senegal representing Hon. Cheikh Tidiane Dièye, Senegal Minister of...
AUC, Ministers, and Development Partners voice support for AU Water Investment Summit
The African Union Commission (AUC), water ministers from across Africa, and their development finance partners support convening an AU Water Investment Summit in 2025, in the context of South Africa’s G20 Presidency. “The AU Africa Water Investment Summit will support...
AU-AIP Youth Fellowship | UA-AIP Jeune Stagiaire
The African Union-led AIP is searching for Africa's next generation of water leaders and advocates. There are currently twenty 12-month Youth Fellowship opportunities across 20 African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad,...
AIP engagements at the 9th Africa Water Week
The following two events at the 9th Africa Water Week will focus on progress in mobilising investments for climate-resilient African water and sanitation and implementing the African Union's Continental Africa Water Investment Programme (AIP). Launch of the AU-Africa...
Zambia launches US$3.4bn/year resource mobilisation strategy to achieve water security
The Government of Zambia has launched an implementation roadmap and a consolidated resource mobilisation strategy to raise US$ 3.4 billion per year by 2030 to realise its National Adaptation Plan and Zambia Water Investment Programme, in alignment with the African...