Water and Sanitation Joint Partnership Fund Uganda



Contract partner: MWE - Ministry of Water and Environment Country: Uganda Funding amount: € 731.450,00 Project start: 01.12.2004 End: 30.06.2008

Short Description:

Overall goal


The Government of Uganda (GoU) has been developing a Sector Wide Approach to planning (SWAp) for the water and sanitation sector. A SWAp framework was adopted at the second joint GoU/Donor water and sanitation sector review in September 2002. Funding modalities, particularly the contributions made by development partners, need to be rationalised so as to ensure efficient planning, management and national ownership of the sector budget. In this context, a number of development partners have agreed to pool their resources under a single Partnership Fund as an interim arrangement - starting 2003 and lasting until 31.12.2007 - intended to pave the way for sector budget support. The Ugandan Water and Sanitation Sector Working Group has prepared and endorsed a concept paper in support of this arrangement. A Memorandum of Understanding that is based on the concept paper provides details of the funding and management arrangements for the Partnership Fund.The Austrian support goes into the building of operation&maintenance support structures for rural water and sanitation supply systems. The establishment of umbrella organisations constituted as network organisations of the local Water Supply and Sanitation Boards (WSSBs) of rural growth centres and individual institutions will be established and supported based on the experiences gained in the South Western Towns Water and Sanitation Programme. These umbrella organisations will provide training and organisational support to their member boards. At the same time, the umbrella organisations will support and supervise monitoring and reporting procedures and hereby provide services to administrative bodies (e.g., DWD/MLWE) and donors.

project number 2299-00/2004
source of funding OEZA
sector Wasserversorgung und sanitäre Einrichtungen
tied
modality
marker
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
  • Type of Aid – Aid modalities: classifies transfers from the donor to the first recipient of funds such as budget support, core contributions and pooled programmes and funds to CSOs and multilateral organisations, project-type interventions, experts and other technical assistance, scholarships and student costs in donor countries, debt relief, administrative costs and other in-donor expenditures.
  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.
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