All Systems Connect : CONNECT Finance presentations

The All Systems Connect International Symposium was held from 2-4 May 2023, in The Hague, the Netherlands. The event included ten thematic tracks:

• C1 CONNECT health
• C2 CONNECT finance
• C3 CONNECT climate
• C4 CONNECT social justice
• W1) Delivering safely managed water and sanitation services
• W2) Markets and behaviour change: how people invest and driving to scale
• W3) Water resource management: finding systemic solutions
• W4) Governments, politics and systems change
• W5) Systems change and collective action
• D) Country Dialogues

Presentations hosted under this resource were part of the CONNECT Finance thematic track. 

Although water, sanitation and hygiene often feature high on national political agendas, there is a massive gap between the required costs and financial commitments. CONNECT Finance explored how various actors can work together to implement strategies to reduce the finance gap both in incremental ways, but also with new ways of thinking.

The theme included the following sessions:

C3.1 Making cents of the WASH finance gap: more than just numbers

• The water sector finance gap - Fiona Gore and Betsy Engebretson, WHO

C3.2 The role of repayable finance: financing different segments in the African WASH and water security landscape

• Framing presentation: Africa Investment Plan High Level Report (and takeways from the UN Water 2023 Conference), Alex Simalabwi, Global Water Partnership Southern Africa

C3.3 The role of finance intermediaries: blended finance for water (no presentations available)

C3.4 The role of finance intermediaries: blended finance for sanitation

• Linking micro finance and bank for mobilizing repayable finance for WASH - Digbijoy Dey, IRC WASH Bangladesh
• The role of finance intermediaries : blended finance for sanitation - Barbara Kazimbaya Senkwe, WASH-FIN 2
• Sanitation financing for increased access to improved household sanitation : a case of Malawi and Rwanda - Thokozani Kaitane, Water For People 
• Blended finance for sanitation : the role of finance intermediaries - Valentin Post, FINISH Mondial, Thokozani Kaitane, Water For People Malawi, Alok Kumar Majumder, Simavi Bangladesh, Santwana Sneha, Finish Society India, Barbara Senkwe, Tetra Tech

C3.5 Mobilising public finance: the role of NGOs and civic initiatives

• Mobilizing public finance for WASH at sub-national level of Bangladesh : experience of WASH SDG Programme - Alok Kumar Majumder, Simavi
• Financing complexity : Public-Private Partnerships for implementing ambitious WASH programs in Rwanda : case of Gicumbi WASH Program - Olivier Tuyishimire, Water For People
• Results-based financing in Haiti as a catalyst for sectoral systems change : how can service subsidies for off-grid sanitation pave the way for successful public infrastructure investment? - Dr. Sasha Kramer, Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) & Mme. Edwige Petit, DINEPA
• Decentralised public finance and expenditure tracking for WASH : the role of CSOs in WASH budget and policy advocacy - Trisha Agarwala, Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA)
• A tale of two cities : government co-funding for WASH in schools, Ethiopia - Yodit Zenebe Mekuria, Splash

C3.6 Understanding and assessing the foundations for water sector investments: methods and tools

• Score card for assessing the enabling environment for investment in water security - Delia Sanchez Trancon, OECD and Lesley Pories, GWP

C3.7 Bringing it together. Sector finance strategies: are they worth the effort?

• The development of finance strategies : insights from supporting finance strategies processes - Catarina Fonseca, IRC