Innovative Water Finance in Africa

Cush Ngonzo Luwesi is Full Professor of Economics of Water and Climate Change and Director of Postgraduate Studies at Ballsbridge University, Curacao (OdeL), and a member of Scientific Advisory Committee of the Climate Research for Development in Africa (CR4D) program at UNECA. He is also a former Focal Region Manager of the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) in the Niger and Volta Basins, at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Atakilte Beyene is an international freelance consultant working on food security and natural resource management. He is also a former senior researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute (Sweden) and at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and as well as other research institutes and organizations in Sweden, Ethiopia and Tanzania.

• Chapter 1: An Introduction to Financial Stability in the Water Sector.- Chapter 2: Financing Water Management and Development.- Chapter 3: Innovative Financial Instruments and Contractual Arrangements for Risk Allocation, Operations Support and Efficiency Maintenance.- Chapter 4: Determinants of Access to Credit for Irrigated Agriculture.- Chapter 5: Economic Viability of Agricultural Water Investments.- Chapter 6: Innovative Financing for Agricultural Water Development.- Chapter 7: Innovative Water Financing in Practice: Lessons Learned from Kenya.