Aquafund IDB

Contribute to more sustainable, reliable and acceptable quality W&S services in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region, especially in rural areas and low income countries (LICs). The AquaFund is a tool that allows SDC to support the W&S initiative, especially in LICs and rural areas, in terms of quality of projects, and their sustainability. In connection with hardware investments of the IDB and Spain WSS Fund, SDC achieves a scaling up of its know how and past “software” investment => Wide application of sustainable models for W&S => increased sustainability and cost effectiveness=>increase coverage especially in rural W&S. To reach the overall objective, the following achieve outcomes: For SDC: Contribution to enhanced capacities of the IDB (water specialists) to promote sustainable models of intervention and approaches in rural water and sanitation, thereby increasing efficiency and sustainability of IDB supported W&S programmes in LAC, especially in LICs. For the IDB: Enhanced capacities to support LAC countries to achieve universal access to sustainable, reliable and acceptable quality W&S services, and the water related MDG.

The project in brief

Directorate/federal office responsible	SDC
Credit area	Development cooperation
Project partners	Contract partner International Financial Institution (IFI) Interamerican Development Bank (other)
Budget	Current phase Swiss budget CHF    5’000’000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF    4’658’536
Project phases	Phase 2 01.12.2014 - 31.12.2018   (Completed) Phase 1 01.02.2011 - 30.06.2014   (Completed)

Further technical details

• Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	WATER SUPPLY & SANITATION WATER SUPPLY & SANITATION
  Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	Basic drinking water supply and basic sanitation Water sector policy and administrative management
  Cross-cutting topics	The project takes account of gender equality as a cross-cutting theme.
  Type of support	Official development assistance (ODA)
  Type of collaboration	Bilateral cooperation
  Finance type	Aid grant
  Aid Type	Basketpooled multi-donor fund
  Tied/untied aid	Untied aid
  Project number	7F07754