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= African Water Facility =

The African Water Facility (AWF) is a multilateral fund that provides grants and technical assistance to enable governments, NGOs and private-public partnerships to secure investments and implement sustainable water projects throughout Africa.

AWF was created by the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) to increase the number and the quality of water projects in order to meet water development goals throughout the continent. It is hosted by the African Development Bank. Its current headquarters are in Tunis, Tunisia

Typically, AWF focuses on the three core areas that are complementary and synergetic: Project Preparation, Water Governance and Water Knowledge. The overall aim is to leverage all three of these areas to provide the framework and conditions necessary for sustainable projects to succeed and for the African water sector to thrive.

Mission
The mission of the AWF is to mobilise resources for water in Africa by:
 * contributing to the improvement of water resources governance
 * increasing water wisdom
 * meeting urgent needs
 * strengthening the financial base for the desired future.

The mandate for AWF is to work with African countries (i.e. governments), political subdivisions or agencies working within these countries, or regional agencies or institutions concerned with water resource development in Africa.

The AWF has stated as its vision ‘Towards water for all by 2025’, which it means to imply 'ensuring water for all citizens for all uses – drinking, hygiene, sanitation, industry, agriculture, energy, transport, tourism and ecosystems'.

Values

 * The AWF is committed to environmental and social sustainability: the development of the African water sector should not come at the expense of the environment, people and biodiversity. Environmental and social risks should be minimised, and environmental and social benefits enhanced
 * The AWF is committed to promoting innovation: new or different ideas can help achieve better results and deliver greater benefits, and therefore should be explored and considered whenever possible
 * The AWF is committed to building and maintaining a close relationship with its grantees throughout the entire duration of a project: building a good rapport with grantees and providing close support is essential to ensuring the success of our shared goals.
 * The AWF is committed to promoting knowledge exchange and collaboration: knowledge is essential to transforming the African continent and should be captured and disseminated to increase capacity to better manage and develop Africa’s water resources in a sustainable way
 * The AWF is committed to excellence: achieving excellence means closely monitoring and evaluating performance, looking out for opportunities to improve, identifying strengths to build on
 * The AWF is committed to fostering partnerships between all water stakeholders: catalysing the development of the African water sector requires collaboration across sectors, institutions and nations and should be encourage and enabled
 * The AWF is committed to improving lives and livelihoods for all: developing the water sector should deliver benefits and impacts that are indiscriminate, far reaching and can be multiplied.

Strategic focus
The AWF provides grants and technical assistance to enable governments, NGOs and private-public partnerships to secure investments and implement sustainable water projects throughout Africa. . The AWF focuses on the three core areas : Project Preparation, Water Governance and Water Knowledge. Its stated aim is to leverage all three of these areas to provide the framework and conditions necessary for sustainable projects to succeed and for the African water sector to thrive.

The AWF supports a wide portfolio of water projects across a broad range of sectors:
 * Agricultural water management
 * Drinking water
 * Environmental management
 * Flood and drought protection
 * Fisheries
 * Hydropower
 * Industry
 * Integrated water resources management
 * Sanitation and hygiene
 * Transport
 * Transboundary water resource management
 * Tourism

Project countries
The AWF supports and has supported projects in the following countries:


 * 🇩🇿 algeria
 * 🇦🇴 angola
 * 🇧🇯 benin
 * 🇧🇼 botswana
 * 🇧🇫 burkina faso
 * 🇧🇮 burundi
 * 🇨🇲 cameroon
 * 🇨🇻 cape verde
 * 🇨🇫 central african republic
 * 🇹🇩 chad
 * 🇨🇩 congo
 * undefined
 * 🇩🇯 djibouti


 * 🇪🇬 egypt
 * 🇬🇶 equatorial guinea
 * 🇪🇷 eritrea
 * 🇬🇦 gabon
 * 🇬🇲 gambia
 * 🇬🇭 ghana
 * 🇬🇳 guinea
 * 🇬🇼 guinea-bissau
 * undefined
 * 🇰🇪 kenya
 * 🇱🇸 lesotho
 * 🇱🇷 liberia}
 * 🇱🇾 libya


 * 🇲🇼 malawi
 * 🇲🇱 mali
 * 🇲🇷 mauritania
 * 🇲🇦 morocco
 * 🇲🇿 mozambique
 * 🇳🇦 namibia
 * 🇳🇪 niger
 * 🇳🇬 nigeria
 * 🇷🇼 rwanda
 * undefined
 * 🇸🇳 senegal
 * 🇸🇨 seychelles


 * 🇸🇱 sierra leone
 * 🇸🇴 somalia
 * 🇿🇦 south africa
 * 🇸🇸 south sudan
 * 🇸🇩 sudan
 * 🇸🇿 swaziland
 * 🇹🇿 tanzania
 * 🇹🇬 togo
 * 🇹🇳 tunisia
 * 🇺🇬 uganda
 * 🇿🇲 zambia
 * 🇿🇼 zimbabwe