Since 2015, approximately 350 million people have benefited from the impact of AfWA's actions to provide drinking water; of these, 285 million live in urban areas and 65 million in rural areas. With regard to sanitation, AfWA influences the quality of services for more than 110 million people living in urban areas on the African continent.

This is the more than positive outcome of the 2020 Review and 2021 Planning Workshop, organized by AfWA and its implementing partners, from February 2 to 5, 2021 in Assinie Mafia, Côte d'Ivoire.

During this workshop, the activities planned for the past year were reviewed. Activities that, “despite the health crisis facing the world, were able to be carried out. This health crisis has forced us to "stay at home", but it has also forced us to call upon our intellectual genius, our intelligence to find the best way to carry out our activities", said Mr. Sylvain Usher, Executive Director of AfWA.

It’s the challenge that the African Water Association achieved, throughout the year 2020, by organizing all its meetings by videoconference.

This is why, the Director of Programs, Dr. Ing. Siméon Kenfack, said: "we can therefore state with absolute certainty that during the year 2020, the Association has succeeded in better reaching its targets in terms of advocacy and mobilization of scientific, technical and financial partners, but it has also learned to adapt to difficult conditions, by equipping itself with online training tools, communication tools and has trained its staff to adapt to this new situation".

With regard to the prospects for the activities of the African Water Association, it is important to note that in this context of resilience to the effect of COVID 19, AfWA has reviewed its implementation strategy, with the identification, the evaluation and establishment of 4 regional implementing partners, one in Burkina Faso for West Africa, another in Cameroon for Central Africa, another in South Africa for Southern Africa, and the last one in Uganda for East Africa. ‘’Most of our fieldwork will be conducted through these regional implementing partners," said Dr. Kenfack. In addition, to increase the impact of its actions", AfWA is initiating new programs to be implemented in 26 countries, says Dr. Simeon Kenfack, who adds that "in response to the quantitative and qualitative challenges of human resources in the water sector in Africa, AfWA has established the African Water and Sanitation Academy, based in Uganda, to teach and empower all categories of human resources in the sector in Africa".

With all these actions, AfWA will further strengthen its position as a leading Association in capacity building for water and sanitation stakeholders in Africa.