The African Development Fund approved a $9.82 million grant on 21 September for Eritrea’s Enhancing Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Adaptation Project. The work will be coordinated with the Eritrean government and UNICEF, with financing from the Fund’s Climate Action Window.

Plans include 21 complete rural water-supply systems and rehabilitation or modernisation of 38 non-functioning systems. The project also targets water, sanitation and hygiene facilities at 10 health centres and 12 schools, alongside catchment restoration works. These are planned project outputs, not completed installations.