Among all constraints to development, water has remained one of the most important challenges to rural poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa. Highly variable and erratic precipitations, poor development of hydraulic infrastructure and markets, and lack of access to water for domestic and productive uses, all contribute to maintaining high, the vulnerability of rural Africans.
RAWDP works within the linkage between water and rural poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. We strongly believe that there are ample opportunities to invest in water in support of rural livelihoods, however such interventions must be targeted adequately.
RAWDP thus is “context-specific” focused to ease appropriate investment. This involves a combination of infrastructure investment and institutional or enterprise strengthening in ways that offer an opportunity to get the best return in terms of poverty reduction and considering the extreme heterogeneity of situations faced by rural people all over Africa.