Historically, public finance was central in financing water investments and will continue to do so in the future. Yet we are all aware of the constraints of public funding to meet the tremendous investment gap, especially as we look to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, academics and practitioners all around the world have been working on identifying and scaling up successful approaches to leverage additional financial resources from other sources. In this first discussion round of our learning journey, we encourage you to exchange with your peers in this community on your practical experiences and insights on the challenges related to financing water security. From your experience, what are the main challenges you have encountered that hinder investments in water security? And what good lessons have you learned of what should and should not be done to overcome these obstacles?
Please share your insights, resources and also questions in chat below. As always, there is no right or wrong answer, and we are all part of this community to learn from each other. In this spirit, we are eager to hear from you.
If you’d like to read a bit more on the topic, we invite you to read through our blog post on this first discussion.