From Mozambique in the South to Morocco in the North, 20 million people in rural and urban areas of Africa have been provided access to clean drinking water for the first time thanks to African Development Bank (AfDB) projects, an evaluation report released by the Bank’s Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) found. Such access is particularly important in this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, since the spread of the virus is closely related to water and sanitation.
The African Water Facility (AWF) is a multilateral Special Fund that provides grants and technical assistance to enable governments, non-governmental organizations and private-public partnerships to address the increasing investment need for the development and management of water resources in Africa. After almost 15 years of implementation, during which the AWF had approved 118 operations in 52 countries for a total volume of €163.3 million, the African Development Bank (AfDB), the trustee of the AWF, commissioned an independent evaluation of the Facility.
Independent Development Evaluation at the African Development Bank has conducted an evaluation of 16 Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSS) projects that were approved and implemented by the Bank in 13 Regional Member Countries over the period 2000-2017. With a total net approval of UA 365 million, these projects were designed to enhance rural health standards, promote education, improve living standards and promote income-generating activities.
Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) at the African Development Bank (AfDB) has conducted an evaluation of 15 Urban Water Supply and Sanitation (UWSS) projects that were approved and implemented by the Bank in 12 Regional Member Countries over the period 2001-2016. The projects aimed to contribute to poverty alleviation through reduction of productive time wastage; a reduction in healthcare costs; an increase in industrial and commercial activities; and the generation of employment opportunities in targeted areas.
In 2016, Independent Development Evaluation at the African Development Bank embarked on a rigorous evaluation of the Bank’s assistance to the water sector in Africa. It targeted Bank interventions in Water Supply and Sanitation (WSS), in both rural and urban contexts, and Agricultural Water Management (AWM) from 2005 to 2016, focusing on the assistance the Bank provided in the form of infrastructure, knowledge and analytical work.
The main objective of this evaluation study is to provide credible estimates of the impacts of the RWSSP on participating communities and households, especially in terms of (i) access to and use of safe water, (ii) the incidence of diarrhea in children under five years of age, (iii) children’s school attendance, and (v) women’s participation in self-employment, and on the sustainability of the results.
In 2006, the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved funding of USD 84m for Phase I of the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Programme (RWSSP) in the United Republic of Tanzania. Phase II of AfDB funding, contributing USD 65m, ran from 2011 to 2015. The RWSSP is a contribution to Component 2 (Rural Water Supply and Sanitation) of the national Water Sector Development Programme (WSDP), 2006 –
There is a broad consensus that impact evaluations are valuable in improving our understanding of what works (and what doesn’t) in the development interventions of the African Development Bank (AfDB). But when it comes to how this practice can be institutionalized across the Bank and its growing portfolio, it becomes less evident.
This publication brings together a summary of innovations, good practices, and lessons learned from recent evaluations of interventions in the water supply and sanitation sector. Drawing from the evaluations of interventions undertaken by the African Development Bank, governments and other development partners, it highlights emerging good practices and innovations and reflects on the key lessons of successful and failed cases.
Driven by the need to further understand what works and what does not in the provision of water supply and sanitation services in Africa, the Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has released a new report highlighting some critical lessons and recommendations meant to improve future interventions and operations in the water and sanitation se
