Sanitation Financing Partnership Trust Fund

The Sanitation Financing Partnership Trust Fund, or SFPTF, initially focused on innovative sanitation solutions to increase support for fecal sludge management through non-networked (non-sewered) sanitation and septage management. Since 2019, the focus has shifted to a more holistic approach through the citywide inclusive sanitation framework to increase access to appropriate sanitation systems, whether sewered or non-sewered, centralized or decentralized, including the required support to increase knowledge and capacity and improve governance.

Water Innovation Trust Fund

The Water Innovation Trust Fund, or WITF, (previously Multi-donor Trust Fund) highlights WFPF’s focus on innovations for improved water resources management and water services delivery. It prioritizes activities designed to result in significantly more people with access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation, higher productivity and efficiency of irrigation and drainage services, more people with reduced risk of flooding and other water-related disaster risks; sustainable management of water resources; increased knowledge and capacity; and improved sector governance.

Water Resilience Trust Fund

Established as a separate multi-donor trust fund, the Water Resilience Trust Fund, or WRTF, aims to support critical and transformational actions by government agencies, communities, and the private sector that are needed to strengthen water resilience in Asia and the Pacific. It prioritizes projects and activities that focus on achieving local water and sanitation resilience, aligned with countries’ needs, national development priorities in the water sector, and sector plans for addressing climate change. Activities should (i) support capacity development in ADB’s developing member countries, (ii) help build knowledge base on water resilience, (iii) help create an enabling environment through improved policies and planning processes, and (iv) facilitate pipeline development for sovereign and nonsovereign water resilience projects.

Netherlands Trust Fund ^closed

The Netherlands Trust Fund under the Water Financing Partnership Facility was established in December 2006 and financially closed in December 2024. For 17 years, the trust fund supported ADB’s water sector operations through projects and activities designed to result in significantly more people with access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation, higher productivity and efficiency of irrigation and drainage services; more people with reduced risk of flooding and other water-related disasters; sustainable management of water resources; increased knowledge and capacity; improved sector governance; and increased focus on the water–food security nexus. The fund supported a total of 79 projects and activities through the four modalities for accessing the resources of the WFPF—three grant component of investments, two technical assistance (TA) linked to loan, 27 stand-alone TA, and 47 direct charges. Its support cut across lending and nonlending portfolios, both sovereign and nonsovereign, and covered all water subsectors across Asia and the Pacific.

The Netherlands Trust Fund was highly instrumental in WFPF’s key achievements as of the trust fund’s closing date on 31 December 2024, having been part of the WFPF since it commenced operation in 2007. With the trust fund’s support, the WFPF has helped deliver a total of 133 investment projects in 23 developing countries amounting to $11.4 billion to benefit around 127 million people, of which close to 67 million have already benefited from completed projects, and nearly 60 million more are expected to benefit from ongoing ones.