Water Resilience Trust Fund under the Water Financing Partnership Facility

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

The fund resources support the WFPF-eligible activities as follows:

Direct project support. The fund can support project preparation and implementation, including upstream work to inform project design and investment dialogue with ADB developing member countries (DMCs).

Program quality support. The fund can support strengthening of policies, institutions and regulations; capacity building; and knowledge management.

Eligible project types include:

• Policy reforms to create an enabling environment for sustainable water resilience. Policy and regulatory reforms that encourage more efficient and equitable water use, protection of water resources, and promotion of investment flows to finance investments in water resilience.
• Strengthened planning and diagnostics to support water resilience. Detailed sector diagnostics to identify adaptation pathways that will lead to a pipeline of projects that support water resilience, and subsequently inform country strategies and programming.
• Project design. Design of investment projects with strong water adaptation components to address identified climate change risks, particularly adaptation-focused investments. Projects with significant mitigation components will also be supported on case-by-case basis. Design support may be provided at all project development stages including at the pre-feasibility, feasibility, project concept development, and project preparation stages.
• Project implementation. Support for the implementation of water adaptation and mitigation measures under ADB-financed investment projects, by providing additional resources for activities such as capacity development and pilot-testing innovative approaches, which have high potential for replication and scale-up.
• Capacity building. Development of training and tools, particularly those offered through the Asia and the Pacific Water Resilience Hub — a collaborative platform for strengthening the water resilience of water entities in DMCs. Partnerships will be established with institutions such as universities, research institutes, and think tanks with globally recognized expertise in water resilience to design and deliver capacity building measures.
• Knowledge management. Capture and dissemination of good practices in building water resilience, including activities supported by the Fund to promote replication and scale-up in other DMCs.

All ADB DMCs are eligible to receive support from the fund. In the case of the contributions from the Government of the Netherlands, all DMCs are eligible for the fund support for knowledge management and capacity building activities toward water resilience. Country-specific support for sector diagnostics, policy dialogue, project design, and implementation will focus on ADB’s nineteen (19) DMCs, including: Bangladesh, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Kiribati, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Viet Nam. However, if there are proposals with transformational water resilience (expected) outcomes that can be replicated and/or have demonstration impacts and/or potential for scaling up to provide significant resilience gains from other countries, then they can also be considered on a case-by-case-basis subject to agreement between the Netherlands and ADB.