Main project strategy
This is a strategic pre-feasibility report that establishes a service strategy, cost model, reference designs, and a delivery programme for providing drinking water to an illustrative cohort of 750 million residents across Africa.
This is a strategic pre-feasibility report that establishes a service strategy, cost model, reference designs, and a delivery programme for providing drinking water to an illustrative cohort of 750 million residents across Africa.
The Africa Water Security Strategy and Reference Design Package outlines a ten-year, staged programme intended to deliver safe, reliable, and free-at-the-point-of-use drinking water to an illustrative 750 million residents across Africa. The document defines service strategies, technical design modules (rural, town, coastal desalination, and regional trunk mains), cost models, and a delivery governance programme. It relies on a calculation model for reproducible planning figures and sets specific decision gates (0-6) for project authorization. The document explicitly clarifies that it is for strategic pre-feasibility planning and does not establish any sites, permits, or contracts. It also includes an executive research framework for leadership recruitment and a register of open items that must be addressed during implementation. The document includes regional adaptation examples for several African countries to demonstrate the flexibility of the proposed service modules, while emphasizing that local field verification is required before any construction commitment.
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