The Australian-Pakistan Water Security Initiative (APWASI) is a four-year (2021-2025) Australian Aid project with the goal of enhancing Australia and Pakistan’s cooperation in managing urban water resources.
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Hydrology and Risk Consultancy, and WWF-Pakistan are the project’s other major implementing partners (HARC).
By demonstrating low-cost Nature Based Solutions (NbS) site-specific solutions you may increase two targeted underprivileged populations’ access to safe water and sanitation services. Using the Water Sensitive Cities (WSC) method
Increase community resilience to shocks related to water and climate change by combining a variety of locally appropriate measures.
As well as educating and enlightening local populations, youth, and other users about water use and conservation. You should work to increase the ability and knowledge of important stakeholders in urban water management.
Being a people-powered and people-centered organisation, APWASI is of the opinion that community participation in the planning and implementation of any intervention promotes.
More efficient and equitable development. The team therefore intended to use Community Based Organizations to coordinate all of the community-based treatments (CBOs).
When formal institutions are inadequate, CBOs frequently emerge and serve a crucial role in delivering public goods and addressing collective action issues.
Due to strong community engagement, the major role of CBOs is still to assist the implementation of the Water Sensitive Cities vision. The project team made sure that CBOs were formed with a male to female ratio of one to one in order to ensure gender inclusivity.
The WSC strategy should still be used, and the operation and maintenance of the interventions should be guaranteed. According to the APWASI planning, which has been done with the premise that once the restricted funds is gone and the team leaves the demonstration locations.
The move in which funding has been transferred from a developed nation to a developing nation in an effort to show best practises for water-sensitive urban planning.
Technical and implementation collaborations have also thrived throughout the project.
