Mobilising Capital for Water: Blended Finance Solutions to Scale Investment in Emerging Markets 5 INTRODUCTION: THE CASE FOR CHANGE The cost of poorly managed water and sanitation services, to society and the economy, are both well documented and unacceptably large. [...] Mobilising Capital for Water: Blended Finance Solutions to Scale Investment in Emerging Markets 11 BLENDED FINANCE SOLUTIONS TO UNLOCK NEW INVESTMENT FOR THE WATER SECTOR Using the right instruments to optimise public and philanthropic funding can mitigate risks, overcome key barriers, and strengthen the development of high-quality pipeline to create a more efficient and investable water sector. [...] In the case of the Upper Tana Water Fund, for example, the global beverage corporation Coca Cola, a local electricity generation company, and the city’s water and sewerage company have supported upstream interventions for water resource protection, which resulted in significant cost reductions for the companies. [...] Water governance: Good governance will be a pre-requisite for systemic changes to the water investment environment, and required to allow greater flows of investment into the water system in low- and middle-income countries. [...] The fund developed a programme to train and support smallholder farmers in the Upper Tana basin to reduce erosion, improve water use efficiency, and sustainably A key challenge for the water fund is to Established: 2015 increase productivity.
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