The Bu WP strategic plan falls within the framework of the implementation of the GWPEA/WACDEP component 4 ‘Partnership and Sustainability’ especially in its work Package 8: Governance and Fundraising that seeks to strengthen partnership for water security and climate resilience at different levels specifically by enhancing fundraising of programs promoting water security and climate resilience.
Different partners were represented to the conference namely Action Aid Burundi, Water and Sanitation for Africa, Lake Victoria Environment Management Program, African Bank of Development, PROTOS, GIZ/KFW, FIDA/PAIVABA, GIZ/ACCES &Prosec-Eau, Lake Tanganyika Authority, World Vision, etc. The meeting was also attended by officials from sectorial ministries together with the BuWP steering committee members as well as WACDEP staff, and media professionals had also responded to the invitation to cover the event and broadcast the strategic plan.
The BuWP strategic plan comprises two project proposals subdivided into fourteen goals. The total amount needed for the implementation of this Five Year strategic Plan for Burundi water partnership is Three Million Two Hundred Fifty Thousand US dollars (3,250,000 USD).
Different partners appreciated the strategic plan and even though they didn’t clearly commit funding. However, most of them took commitment to support and accompany the implementation of BuWP strategic plan. These are for instance:
- PAIVA- B / IFAD through interactive Partnership as an intervention strategy and monitoring and evaluation through Goals 6-7-8 goals of the Strategic Plan
- Lake Tanganyika Authority: common management through the project for the protection of Lake Tanganyika Watershed and to Climate Change Adaptation and the Monitoring and Evaluation especially in resource mobilization,
- GIZ / ACCESS: work in synergy for public awareness, the development of policies and strategies relating to pilot adaptation measures (e.g. water harvesting, ... ..) to Climate Change through the Goals 1 , 5,6,13 of the Strategic Plan
- Action-Aid Burundi: to develop a partnership for the design of projects related to Climate Change through the development of contingency plans, the participatory vulnerability analysis, etc.
- PROTOS: through experience exchanging, sharing of tools and documentation, partnership in the implementation of projects to be included in annex to IWRM plan of the Isale Commune being drafted.
Photo: The participants of the meeting