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Add to Preferred SourcesThe World Bank approved an International Development Association grant in the amount of $75 million equivalent from its Crisis Response Window (CRW) as additional financing to the Water Services and Institutional Support Project II currently in implementation.
The funds will primarily be utilized in support of water-related emergency recovery efforts from damages caused by cyclones Idai and Kenneth in the cities of Beira, Dondo, Tete, Moatize, Nampula, Quelimane, Mocuba and Nacala. These investments will potentially benefit an additional 130,000 people from the original beneficiaries under the Water Services and Institutional Support Project II.
“The damages caused by recent cyclone Idai have placed tremendous pressure on the existing water supply services, leaving thousands of households without adequate water supply, with adverse impacts on public health,” noted Mark Lundell, World Bank Country Director for Mozambique.
The project will fund water production and distribution infrastructure in the cyclone-affected cities, including expansion and refurbishment of wellfields, intake, and water treatment facilities, network rehabilitation and expansion, as well as leakages control systems to optimize the water supply service provision. These investments will enable the government to provide services to large numbers of people in low-income brackets of the population in the largest urban areas by reconstructing a part of the damaged water supply infrastructures by the cyclone Idai and Kenneth. These activities will increase water supply and reliability, as well as the country’s resilience to droughts and other extreme weather events.
The additional financing will also help leverage additional resources to finance the planned water supply investments in Nacala. This financing will cover 50 percent of project investment costs, with the other 50 percent to be financed by the Government of Netherlands under its DRIVE Program.
The project is part of the World Bank’s broader regional post-cyclone recovery package.
Original source: World Bank
Published on 14 June 2019