Table 3.6 provides an overview of available support from the facilities listed in the ICA Guide. It
should be noted that if Table 3.6 suggests availability of support in a particular phase, the support
may be very limited and the facility’s entry should be reviewed for further details.
RIDMP Water Sector Projects
It can never be over‐emphasised that the poverty‐stricken SADC region cannot be removed from the
virtual poverty cycle without, among other interventions:
The creation of new jobs: Infrastructure development projects, be they for agriculture,
hydropower, tourism, transportation, ICT, domestic water supply or sanitation services, create
sustainable jobs and employment;
The provision of opportunities for economic development: The rural poor, in particular, should
be empowered, for example, through being given title to the land that they live on so that
they can also be economically viable to borrow development funds from banks and other such
institutions;
The collective closing of ranks against poverty by all the SADC Member States, as no individual
country can efficiently do it alone in an integrated region;
Motivating and engaging the private sector to work with the SADC Member State
governments. This could be achieved through various regional incentive schemes for
infrastructure development with attendant legal, policy and regulatory frameworks that
guarantee the investors' returns;
Establishing efficient, well capacitated and mandated national, river basin and regional
infrastructure development and management institutions; and
Overall, the self‐belief and conviction among the SADC Member States and its citizens that
"yes we can".
In short, the SADC region should actively attend to and finance the three pillars of the RSAP III so as
to fast‐track the achievement of the overall SADC goal of poverty eradication, economic
development and regional integration.
Table 2.4 gives a summary of the current and desired status in 2027 of the SADC region and the
resultant gap with respect to surface water storage, land under irrigated agriculture, hydropower
generation, water abstraction and coverage of the water supply and sanitation services. Table 3.4
gives details of the 34 projects and their contributions towards achieving the gaps identified, which
need to be filled in order to achieve the Vision 2027 Water Sector targets. The sources of finance
proposed for each project are purely based on:
The previous project involvement of the funding agency in previous studies such as feasibility
studies;
Information given by Member States in their project profiles;
ICA suggested facility providers as given in Table 3.6; or
Known funding preferences of the proposed funding agencies.
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