By the end of the year, we more than doubled our portfolio with 24 new initiatives. Thanks to this, our Making Water Count portfolio reached a total of 118 initiatives contracted. This largely exceeds our initial forecast back in 2019. These contracts include seven blended partnerships with local and global banks, impact investors and private funds that will contribute to mobilising more investments in water and sanitation.
In the report, we present our view on addressing climate change and providing technical and financial support to water and sanitation enterprises for mitigation, adaptation and resilience-building measures.
The 2022 report features Bhumijo, an enterprise offering smart sanitation solutions to low-income communities in Bangladesh and shares key impact results of our partnership with Sidian Bank to facilitate SME lending for WASH enterprises in Kenya. Our third example focuses on the business acceleration programmes we developed in partnership with ForthInvestment in Burkina Faso.
We are proud of what we achieved in 2022 and very grateful for the trust and support of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, our strategic and implementing partners, consultants and especially the entire Aqua for All team.
