Finance

With the imperative that the 9th World Water Forum will bridge between the stakeholders and between regions, without neglecting the geopolitical and cultural characteristics of each region, CAF, in coordination with the presidency and the secretariat of the WWC, carried out the Conference on Finance and Water Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC): Towards Dakar 2022. In this session will be shared the vision of LAC in terms of water gathered from the conference, concerning regional challenges and opportunities.

The EU-WOP Programme is a four-year initiative, led by UN-Habitat’s Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance (GWOPA) and funded by the European Commission IntPA. The program is enabling twenty-two international Water Operators’ Partnerships projects, involving over 50 partner organizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America over the coming three years, in boosting the capacity and performance of utilities with the support of their peers.

The Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI) organized the second H.L. Segment in a series of international meetings to develop water scare countries' messages to be submitted to the U.N. Conference on the Midterm Comprehensive Review of the Water Action Decade, March 2023. Regional and International partners support the roadmap for the Policy dialogues in water-scarce countries to achieve SDGs.

Creating opportunities for action-oriented solutions providers (entrepreneurs, investors, corporations, utilities, public authorities, associations) to network and accelerate the spread of their solutions.

Investing in nature-based solutions, such as preserving or restoring wetlands and natural flood management measures, is essential to enhance water security. These solutions can complement or substitute for grey infrastructure, such as built reservoirs and water treatment plants. Mobilising funding for those solutions raises specific challenges, as they generate multiple benefits for a diverse range of beneficiaries - and only some of these benefits can be monetised.

8 out of 10 people without access to even a basic water supply live in rural areas. Overcoming this challenge means adopting new ways of working and attracting the necessary investment to expand and sustain rural water services. There are invest-ready service models but what is needed is a new generation of rural water professionals to make them work, and investors and governments to support them.