The major project challenges are the timely sourcing of project finances, achieving consensus on the
selection of the 62 urban centres that will benefit and the capability/capacity of some of the selected
urban centres to successfully implement their component of the project. There will be a need for
enhancing capacity in such urban centres.
Capacity Enhancement in Infrastructure Project Preparation, Resource Mobilisation and Piloting
(Project GP‐4)
Under the RSAP III Programmes, Programmes 7, 8 and 9 (Infrastructure Project Preparation,
Resource Mobilisation for Infrastructure Development and Infrastructure Piloting respectively)
should be given urgent priority and rolled out to all the SADC regional/RBO/national institutions that
are going to implement the new Water Sector infrastructure. The objectives of this capacity
enhancement project is to enable the SADC national/bi‐national/RBOs to be fully capacitated so as
to be able to develop, prepare and package bankable water infrastructure projects that can be
submitted to international financial institutions.
Prior to implementation of the proposed capacity enhancement in infrastructure project
preparation, resource mobilisation and piloting project, the following should be undertaken through
the SADC Water Division:
Existing training manuals are promoted and new manuals are developed to assist policy‐
makers, decision‐makers and professionals with issues around the sustainable development of
large water infrastructure; and
A training manual is developed that documents the different stages and requirements of
project preparation; from the description of the enabling environment, to project definition,
project feasibility, resource mobilisation and post‐implementation support.
There will thus be two phases to this project: preparation of training manuals and the training itself.
It is estimated that the cost of preparing the training manuals would be US$0.25 million and the cost
of the training would be US$0.75 million, giving a total cost for the project of US$1 million. The
project would start with the preparation of the training manuals in early 2013 and end with the
conclusion of training in 2014.
Possible project financiers are GIZ and DBSA. The project can be considered to be in Phase 3 of the
ICA Project Development Phases.
The major project challenge foreseen is timely sourcing of project finances.
Reduction in Non‐revenue Water and Water Losses in the Capital Cities of the SADC Member States
(Project GP‐8)
The project proponents are the SADC Member States with the water utilities for each capital city
being the implementing agency. This is an investment opportunity study. The objectives of this
proposed project are similar to those of Projects P1‐9 and P1‐10, which are to reduce the water
demand of water users by reducing water losses and NRW, achieve greater water use efficiency and
use of appropriate metering, monitoring and data analysis methods to document volumes
delivered/provided and used. The resultant water savings can then be used to supply new
consumers. The management of the water situation in all the 15 capital cities of the SADC Member
States can be improved by applying WDM principles. Activities such as pipe leakage repair, pressure
reduction, re‐use of water and metering with commensurate data analysis can be introduced, with
good results and resultant benefits to the consumers being serviced. Water conservation and water
demand management measures provide cost‐effective means of reducing water demands in the long
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