The Sub-Saharan African Regional Hub focuses on the following areas:

1. Access to fundamental human rights and needs - water security, food security, energy security, water quality and proper sanitation for all.
2. Capacity Building - contribute to strengthening the regions water sector individual and institutional capacities through short training programmes.
3. Events and activities such as technical workshops, dialogues, seminars, lectures, and roadshows to facilitate knowledge sharing, joint learning and generation of new knowledge that will benefit the region’s water sector.
4. Research and Development - facilitate new knowledge generation through research projects jointly funded with interested partners.
5. Innovation Cooperation - promote co-creation, uptake and sharing of innovative solutions (technological and non-technological) that address the region and the broader Africa continent’s challenges.
6. Promoting women and youth involvement in addressing and finding solutions to the region’s water challenges.

The WRC is a member of over 30 strategic water and sanitation policy and RDI networks, CoPs and other platforms in Africa and internationally. We have formal and informal partnerships with stakeholders in the water value chain ranging from financial, policy, knowledge and solution providers and other implementation partners.