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v Africa Water Infrastructure An interim secretariat has already been
Investments scorecard established and is working on basin
Through the SADC WaterFund
strategies, institutional strengthening and
Regional Water Investment Programme, the
financial sustainability studies, so as to
DBSA is supporting the development of the
realise a permanent Secretariat that will
Africa Water Infrastructure Investments
gradually remove itself from donor-
scorecard. This is a tool that will assist
dependency, as it is currently funded by an
countries in addressing the water
ICP, the Netherlands Government.
investments gap and improving the
investment outlook of the water sector.
This supports the goal of the Africa TRANSPORT SECTOR
Water Investment Programme adopted by
African leaders in mobilising about USD$30
billion in water and sanitation investments
in Africa by 2030. To learn more about the The Tripartite Transport and Transit
Fund and its initiatives visit the SADC Facilitation Programme (TTTFP) funded
th
WaterFund website or contact Babalwa under the 11 EDF, is implementing the
Ntlangula BabalwaN@dbsa.org. harmonised minimum standards in cross
border road transportation in COMESA,
EAC and SADC within the statutory
Combined Coordination of Multiple framework of the Multilateral Cross Border
Transboundary River Basin Programmes Road Transport Agreement (MCBRTA) and
SADC is increasingly working on newer and Vehicle Load Management Agreement
better integrated management approaches (VLMA) that require quality regulation of
for cost-effective transboundary water operators, vehicles and drivers within the
78 resources management. One such approach Tripartite region. The TTTFP is coordinated
is combining two or more river basins to be and managed by the SADC Secretariat on
managed by a single institution, which will behalf of the Tripartite RECs. There are four
serve to reduce management costs and stages in the implementation of the
promote ease of inter-basin water transfer programme:
across basins and thereby aiding to the • Stage 1 Establish Statutory Basis;
creation of regional water pools. • Stage 2 Institutional Capacity and
The new model is piloted in the Development of Systems;
newly established tri-basin River Basin • Stage 3 Implementation of Systems;
Organisation (RBO) involving Mozambique and
and Zimbabwe for shared three river basins • Stage 4 Commissioning in Selected
namely, Buzi, Pungwe and Save (BUPUSA). Corridors, Monitoring, Evaluation
The countries have already developed a and Roll-out Strategy.
funded roadmap, and are working on a
hosting and cooperation instruments Harmonization of Regional Road
(agreements) to establish the BUPUSA tri- Transport Laws, Regulations, Standards,
basin permanent secretariat. SADC and Systems
Secretariat has continued to provide The Secretariat continues to coordinate and
resource mobilisation and technical support manage as contracting authority of the
to the countries. TTTFP funded by the EU. The TTTFP
Another such RBO (a two-basin shared provides a harmonized legal, regulatory and
watercourse institution) has also been system framework for Member/ Partner
established to oversee the Incomati and States to implement the harmonized
Maputo transboundary river basins, shared minimum standards in cross-border road
by Mozambique, Eswatini and South Africa. transportation under the MCBRTA and
The institution is called the Inco-Maputo VLMA. The TTTFP which commenced in
Watercourse Commission (INMACOM). 2017 and designed to end in November