Water Resilience Trust Fund under the Water Financing Partnership Facility (WFPF-WRTF)

Type of Recipient
Public entity at the national level
Private sector
Region
East Asia and Pacific
Europe and Central Asia
South Asia
Fund Size

$20 million

Co-financing Requirement
No
Application Timeframe

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Sectors and Themes
Cities
Industry and Infrastructure
Water
Climate Objective
Adaptation
Type of Support Provider
Multilateral
Trustee or Administrator
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Contact Information

Fund Focal: Allison Woodruff - awoodruff[at]adb.org

Fund Team: Ludovina Balicanot -lbalicanot.consultant[at]adb.org

The Fund aims to support critical and transformational actions by government agencies, communities, and the private sector needed to strengthen water resilience in Asia and the Pacific. Activities will include developing capacity in ADB developing member countries, building the knowledge base on water resilience, creating an enabling environment through improved policies and planning processes,and developing a pipeline of sovereign and nonsovereign water resilience projects.

Support Provider

Netherlands

Purpose of Support
Strengthening enabling environments and stakeholder capacity
Funding Type
Grants
In-kind contributions
Monitoring and Reporting Procedures

Project implementation, supervision, and monitoring will be conducted by user departments following ADB’s standard policies, procedures, and guidelines.

Organizational and Decision Making Structure

The ADB WFPF Steering Committee makes recommendations on fund proposals.

Eligibility Criteria

TBD

Eligible Countries

All ADB Developing Member Countries. However, priority may be given to specific DMCs based on financing partner priorities. Currently, priority DMCs are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Viet Nam.
 

Information on how to

Contact ADB for more information.