With the recent merger with ESAR-IWA, the Southern and Eastern African representation of the International Water Association, AfWA is now the unique lead-representation of the professional organizations in the water and sanitation sector in Africa. The Association is onwards strongly positioned to positively contribute to the sector agenda-setting, policy development, needs identification, promote innovation and new approaches. By so doing, AfWA seeks to be at the upfront in implementing the African Head of State Sharm El-Sheikh 2008 Declaration aiming at enhancing coverage on water and sanitation in Africa to achieve the MDGs target.

AfWASA (previously AfWA) supports a number of interventions in Africa and 2ML Consulting has been part of their interventions. Interventions partnered with AFWA include:

• Capacity building of water and sanitation companies’ Managing Directors in Africa Conakry – Guinea
• Development of Performance Improvement Pathways for African Water and Sanitation service providers