Results

Impacts Fund until 2021

Beneficiaries. Impact of programs

Throughout 2021, the cumulative work of the Water Fund and partner countries reached a new milestone, surpassing four million beneficiaries. Specifically, 4,027,698 people, according to the activity reports of each of the programmes. Of these, 3.5 million have gained access to drinking water and 1.3 million to sanitation services, with families able to enjoy both. In addition, work has been done to adequately treat the wastewater of 961,776 people.

In order to ensure the sustainability of these actions over time and to help foster community development, the Water Fund has also focused on other vital aspects, such as training for the staff of local, regional and national institutions and raising awareness about the use of the resource.

Impacts of the fund (december 2021) Bilateral and multilateral programmes

Impact of bilateral programmes (december 2021)

Impacts on public policies

In addition to the quantitative impacts in terms of the number of people benefited or the number of water or sanitation systems built, it is essential to note the work done in strengthening the sector and the impact on public policies in the respective countries with which the Water Fund works. This is key to ensuring the sustainability of programmes and guaranteeing that the impact of the actions is sustained over time. For the Water Fund, this line of work is of strategic importance due to its contribution to the achievement of the SDGs in the region and the fulfilment of Human Rights to Water and Sanitation.

The issues addressed in this line of work include support to partner countries in adopting specific measures to improve their water governance policies. This has involved specialised support for the development of the legal and institutional framework of countries with an Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) approach, both in terms of strategic and hydrological planning and institutional capacity-building.

In this regard, some specific actions carried out in 2021 in different countries of the region can be highlighted, such as:

Accompanying the National Institute of Water Resources of the Dominican Republic
In the drafting of the National Plan for the Development of the country’s Water Resources, within the framework of the DOM-17-B programme.
Development of different works for the creation of the Technical Guide for Hydrological Planning
In the framework of Integrated Water Resources Management aimed at the Ibero-American sphere, in coordination with CODIA:
- Work on the characterisation of the legal and institutional framework in Latin America in terms of resources management and hydrological planning, as a starting point for the development of a guide adapted to the countries in the region.
- Work to define the conceptual framework: objectives and results of water planning, water planning instruments and relationship with other sectoral planning and criteria for the definition of horizons and period of revision of the plan.
Support to the Bolivian Ministry of Environment and Water
In the development of Drought Management Plans to provide drinking water service operators with a tool to support and inform decision-making in the event of drought.
Support to the National Institute of Water Resources of Cuba
In the definition of training programmes and practices for technicians and managers of the institution in the use of technologies to facilitate the management of water resources and the use of decision-making support tools.
Support to the General Directorate of Water Resources of Honduras (DGRH-H)
In the public information phase of the Regulation of the National Water Law, to respond to the allegations presented. Previously, the Water Fund supported the drafting of this regulation, which is essential for the country to make progress in the regulation of water resources management and in the consolidation of institutions related to water management.

Results

Financial Performance

Programme Status

The Great Fund