Making Water Count—Integrated Risk-Return and Knowledge-Based Models for Water Investments

Josien Sluijs (), Blanca Méndez () and Dieter Gramlich ()
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Josien Sluijs: Aqua for All
Blanca Méndez: Aqua for All
Dieter Gramlich: DHBW – Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University

A chapter in Water Risk Modeling, 2023, pp 277-310 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The world is not on track to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6), which is to ensure the availability and a sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. Huge service and financial gaps hinder efforts and progress toward achieving universal access, especially in low-income countries. To close these gaps, more investments in water and sanitation are urgent. Particularly, micro, small, and medium enterprises struggle to get capital from public and private financial institutions. There is a need to provide these water and sanitation enterprises with the tools and funding they need to become sustainable and investment ready. Simultaneously, it is critical to increase access to finance for water and sanitation. In this chapter, we present the strategy and models developed by Aqua for All, an international foundation based in the Netherlands. Aqua for All implements comprehensive approaches to reduce the service gap by supporting market-based solutions and enabling SMEs to scale. At the same time, the foundation offers technical assistance (capacity building) and de-risking as well as develops innovative finance facilities in partnership with public and private investors that contribute to bridging the finance gap.

Keywords: Sustainable Development Goal 6; Finance gap; Service gap; Integrative approach; Business acceleration; Impact-Linked Finance; De-risking; WASH; SME lending; Impact investing; Water investments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-23811-6_10

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