The financial tool provides reliable and project-based estimates of on–going and planned investment in the development of water resources for food and energy production in the short, medium and long term within a country.

The approach adopted is ‘project-based’, where the information on irrigation and hydropower projects is collected and processed (inputs) in order to derive the investment estimates (outputs).

The tool supports the investment decision-making process by analyzing the sources of project financing, the distribution of investments by type of project over time, and the derivation of financial and economic indicators.