Ensuring a Lasting Impact

ABRI’s approach to program implementation is to:

• Create a shared vision with host governments, donors, the private sector, and NGOs to shape activities and build broad-based support that will be sustained beyond the life of ABRI.
• Mobilize a network of national champions for water sector reform in ABRI’s active countries who will meet regularly to contribute to program planning and progress review efforts and who will act as points of entry for their countries by identifying promising opportunities for ABRI intervention.
• Support regional platforms as effective vehicles for reaching out to a number of countries and establish an immediate audience for sharing lessons and implementing good practices.
• Build the capacity of existing organizations to carry out and sustain activities to improve water resources management.
• Emphasize high-influence and low-cost activities that attract co-financing and have far reaching consequences.
• Emphasize implementing lessons learned and good practices that cover the wide range of ABRI efforts in transboundary river basin cooperation, water use efficiency, and improved water and sanitation access, drawing from the Middle East and Africa, as well as more broadly.
• Treat program funds like investment
  capital to expand the presence and impact of the program.