GOVERNANCE OF THE WATER FINANCING PARTNERSHIP FACILITY WFPF Steering WooChong Um, Director General, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Committee Chair Department (SDCC) WFPF Steering Yevgeniy Zhukov, Director General, Central and West Asia Department (CWRD) Committee James Patrick Lynch, Director General, East Asia Department (EARD) Members Leah Gutierrez, Director General, Pacifi c Department (PARD) Suzanne Gaboury, Director General, Private Sector Operations Department (PSOD) Kenichi Yokoyama, Director General, South Asia Department (SARD) Ramesh Subramaniam, Director General, Southeast Asia Department (SERD) Water Sector Qingfeng Zhang, Chief of Rural Development and Food Security (Agriculture) Committee Chair Thematic Group, SDCC Water Sector Yasmin S. Siddiqi, Director, Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Division, CWRD Committee Yong Ye, Director, Urban Development and Water Division, CWRD Members Thomas Panella, Director, Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Division, EARD Sangay Penjor, Director, Urban and Social Sectors Division, EARD Jingmin Huang, Director, Urban, Social Development, and Public Management Division, PARD Hisaka Kimura, Advisor, PSOD Mio Oka, Director, Environment, Natural Resources, and Agriculture Division, SARD Norio Saito, Director, Urban Development and Water Division, SARD Jiangfeng Zhang, Director, Environment, Natural Resources, and Agriculture Division, SERD Srinivas Sampath, Director, Urban Development and Water Division, SERD Facility Manager/ Robert Guild, Chief Sector Offi cer, SDCC Acting Alternate Christian Walder, Water Supply and Sanitation Specialist, SDCC Trust Fund Focals Multidonor Coral Fernandez Illescas, Principal Water Resources Specialist, SDCC Netherlands Jelle Beekma, Senior Water Resources Specialist (Food Security), SDCC Sanitation Christian Walder, Water Supply and Sanitation Specialist, SDCC Secretariat Chief of Water Sector Group, SDCC Coral Fernandez Illescas, Principal Water Resources Specialist, SDCC Geoff rey Wilson, Senior Water Resources Specialist, SDCC Christian Walder, Water Supply and Sanitation Specialist, SDCC Jacobus Johannes Veerman, Senior Water Resources Specialist, SDCC Jelle Beekma, Senior Water Resources Specialist (Food Security), SDCC Pia Reyes, Water Resources Offi cer, SDCC Fatima Bautista, Operations Analyst, SDCC Ellen Pascua, Consultant, SDCC Robert Domingo, Consultant, SDCC Anna Romelyn Almario, Consultant, SDCC Christopher Moster, Consultant, SDCC Elga Reyes, Consultant, SDCC Gino Pascua, Consultant, SDCC Partners Fund Jacob Sorensen, Director Division, SDCC Rajeev Singh, Senior Financing Partnership Specialist Stella Tansengco-Schapero, Senior Financing Partnerships Specialist Marites Torres, Senior Financing Partnerships Offi cer CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 STORIES OF SUPPORT ACROSS THE YEARS 5 RESULTS FRAMEWORK 23 Progress Toward Impact 23 Progress Toward Outcome 1 27 Progress Toward Outcome 2 29 Progress Toward Outputs 1 to 4 32 FINANCIAL STATUS 37 Partners Contributions 37 Fund Utilization 38 Disbursements 39 Resource Allocation Ratio 39 MANAGEMENT OF THE FACILITY 45 Processing and Approval of Applications 45 Portfolio Management 46 Reporting and Communication with Financing Partners 48 Resource Mobilization 49 KEY LESSONS AND EXPERIENCES 55 Challenges and Key Constraints 57 EXTERNAL FACTORS RELEVANT TO THE FACILITY 59 OVERVIEW OF 2021 ACTIVITIES 63 New WFPF DMF and Updating the Implementation Guidelines 63 Evaluation of WFPF 63 Finalizing the ADB Water Sector Framework 2021–2030: 64 Water-Secure and Resilient Asia-Pacifi c Disseminating AWDO 2020 Messages 64 Facilitating and Supporting Knowledge Exchange 65 APPENDIXES 66 1 Water Financing Partnership Facility Design and Monitoring Framework 66 2 Summary Information on Project Beneficiaries 72 (Based on Project Completion Reports) – Gender Inclusiveness 3 Summary Information on Project Beneficiaries 105 (Based on Project Completion Reports) – Poverty Impact 4 WFPF Support to Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in River Basins 124 5 Summary of Policy Advisory Technical Assistance Completion Reports 144 6 Summary of Ratings of All Completed Policy and Advisory Technical Assistance 166 7 Summary of Capacity Development Technical Assistance Completion Reports 168 8 Summary of Ratings of All Completed Capacity Development Technical Assistance 192 9 Status of Grant Reports 194 10 Distribution of Approved Allocations by Country 209 11 Active Committments by Country 211 TABLES 1 Water Financing Program Project Benefi ciaries 24 and WFPF Support, 2006–2020 2 Expected Benefi ciaries from Ongoing WFPF-supported Projects 25 3 Benefi ciaries of Water Supply and Sanitation Projects, 2006–2020 26 4 Benefi ts from Projects Supporting the Water-Food Security Nexus 26 5 Distribution of River Basins with IWRM Support 27 6 Committed Water Investments, 2006–2020 28 7 Committed Water Supply and Sanitation Investments, 2006–2020 28 8 Committed Sanitation Investments, 2006–2020 28 9 Committed Partner Contributions 37 10 Status of Fund Utilization – Based on Status of Grant Reports 38 11 Status of Fund Disbursements, as of 31 December 2020 39 12 Use of Funds by Window 39 13 Application Process and Approvals by Modality 45 14 Active Commitments by Trust Fund, as of 31 December 2020 46 15 Active Commitments by Region, as of 31 December 2020 46 16 Summary of Disbursements against Commitments, 2007–2020 47 17 Progress on Sanitation-related Commitments 47 18 Twinning with Water Utilities from Financing Partner Countries 50 19 Overview of 2021 Major Knowledge Sharing Events 65 FIGURES 1 Annual Use of Funds by Window 40 2 Distribution of Approved Allocations by Modality 40 3 Distribution of Approved Allocations by Subsector 41 4 Distribution of Approved Allocations by Region 42 ABBREVIATIONS ACM annual consultation meeting ADB Asian Development Bank AWDO Asian Water Development Outlook BMGF Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation COVID-19 coronavirus disease DMC developing member country DMF design and monitoring framework IWRM integrated water resources management MFF multitranche fi nancing facility MOU memorandum of understanding O&M operation and maintenance PDAM perusahaan daerah air minum (public water utility) PIM participatory irrigation management PRC People's Republic of China PPTA project preparation technical assistance TA technical assistance TCR technical assistance completion report TRTA transaction technical assistance WFPF Water Financing Partnership Facility WMCA water management cooperative association Uzbekistan Azerbaijan Kyrgyz Republic Tajikistan Mongolia People’s Republic of China Pakistan Nepal Lao People’s Democratic Republic India Bangladesh Philippines Myanmar Viet Nam Cambodia Sri Lanka Indonesia IMPACTS AT A GLANCE In 14 years, thanks to the contribution of partners, the Water Financing Partnership Facility (WFPF) has helped deliver 109 investment projects of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 20 countries, helping millions of people across Asia and the Pacifi c. $8.954 billion investments represent 30% of $29.594 billion of ADB’s total committed water investments since 2006 119.8 million people to benefi t, exceeding the 115 million people Marshall Islands target number of project benefi ciaries attributable to WFPF support Kiribati 43.7 million actual benefi ciaries from completed projects Fiji Hand hygiene, a sign of the times. As an indispensable instrument of ADB’s water operations, WFPF is likewise attuned to the needs of ADB’s developing member countries, such as increased support for water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions. WFPF 2020 ANNUAL REPORT1 INTRODUCTION The year 2020 marked the culmination of the objectives and operation of the Water Financing Partnership Facility (WFPF or the Facility) based on the 2007–2020 Design and Monitoring Framework (DMF) (Appendix 1). The Asian Development Bank (ADB) established the Facility on 29 November 2006 to mobilize additional fi nancial and knowledge resources from development partners to support the implementation of ADB’s Water Financing Program and, thus, help achieve its targeted outcomes by 2020: (i) 500 million people with sustainable access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation, (ii) 170 million people with reduced risks to fl oods, and (iii) 95 million people with more productive and effi cient irrigation and drainage services. Since 2006, WFPF has supported ADB's Water Financing Program to deliver quality water investments in the region by 2020, which aims to provide: with sustainable access to safe drinking water and sanitation million people targeted by with reduced risks to flood the Water Financing Program with more productive irrigation and drainage services At least 115 million of these beneficiaries are attributable to WFPF 2 The Facility is comprised of three trust funds: (i) the Multidonor Trust Fund, with contributions from Australia, Austria, Norway1, Spain, and Switzerland2; (ii) the Netherlands Trust Fund, and (iii) the Sanitation Financing Partnership Trust Fund, with contribution from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Composition of WFPF MULTIDONOR TRUST FUND SANITATION FINANCING NETHERLANDS PARTNERSHIP TRUST FUND TRUST FUND Note: The Government of Norway was a This 2020 Annual Report serves as the Facility’s fi nal report for the 2007–2020 DMF, the time period of which is also referred to in this document as Phase 1. As described and presented in the succeeding pages, WFPF has surpassed its overall target impact of at least 115 million project benefi ciaries attributable to the Facility