Accelerating irrigation services and preserving ecosystem service values.
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Accelerating irrigation services and preserving ecosystem service values
Overview
• Long-term Strategy• Green Growth Framework• Areas of Intervention
AFDB‘s Strategy 2013-2022
• Focus on two core objectives:– Inclusive Growth• Based on the recognition that growth has been
concentrated in a few sectors adn geographical areas;• Recognition that past efforts are not inclusive enough
(economic, social, political and spatial); that growth has not led to deep reduction in poverty and inequality
– Transition to Green Growth
AFDB‘s Strategy 2013-202
• Transition to Green Growth– Ensuring that Green Growth is sustainable;– Supporting African RMCs to gradually transition to Green
Growth;– Improve Water/Energy/Food Security, and Improve the
sustainable use of natural resources and spur innovation, job creation and economic development
– Focus on:• Building resilience (to shocks): ecological, socio-economic, …• Managing natural assets efficiently and sustainably• Promoting sustainable infrastructure
AFDB‘s Strategy 2013-2022
• Operational Priorities– Infrastructure Development– Regional Economic Integration– Private Sector Development– Governance and accountability– Skills and technology
• Areas of Special Emphasis– Fragile States– Agriculture and Food Security– Gender
Green Growth Framework
• The Bank‘s overall strategy is further defined in the Green Growth Framework and various Sector Guidelines.
• Key princinples guiding operations:– Maximizing natural resources use efficiency;– Minimizing waste and pollution;– Building resilience of livlihoods and economic
sectors
Green Growth Framework
• The Bank recognizes that this will require a progressive shift:– Focus on upstream planning– Cross-Sector approaches– Towards project quality over throughput to
harness synergies and reduce trade-offs between social, economic and environmental development
Focal Areas for Inclusive Green Growth
Areas of EngagementEnabling environment
Project Definition
Project Feasibility
Project Structuring
Transaction Support
Early-stage Preparation Mid-stage Preparation
ImplementationPost Evaluation
Scale
• Basin, Watershed, Ecosystem– Allocation, Cumulative Impacts, etc.– Erosion, Sedimentation, Nutrients
• System-Level– Storage/Diversion/Various sources– Main Distribution– Secondary– Drainage and return flows, environmental flows
• Farm-level– Fertility, Salinization, etc
Focus areas
• Aquatic Ecosystems– River connectivity (mostly longitudinal);– Location-specific land-water interface (integrated wetland
management, etc);– Biodiversity– Mitigate/alternative livelihoods
• Terrestrial ecosystems– Conserve (replace)– Mitigate
Notes arising
• Define terminology (eco-system services vs. multiple-use services)
• Scale (system-level)?• Prioritize? Critical knowledge gaps.• Safeguarding vs. designing for…• Re-inventing the wheel (take forward lessons
learned across regions)