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Global Water Partnership Consulting Meeting 25 August 2012
Stockholm, Sweden
Implementing the Water, Climate and Development Programme in Africa
BACKGROUND
In November 2010 at the 3rd Africa Water Week in Addis Ababa:
AMCOW EXCO issued a decision for GWP and partners to operationalise the Water, Climate and Development Programme (WACDEP)
WACDEP implements commitments in the 2008
Sharm el Sheik Declaration by the AU
Heads of State
And is central to the delivery of climate related objectives in the AMCOW
Triennial WorkPlan
CONSTANT CONSULTATIONS WITH AMCOW TAC MEMBERS
9 Water Ministers attended the WACDEP Launch during 2011 Stockholm World Water Week
WACDEP builds on the lessons learnt in
IWRM Planning carried out from
2004 - 2009
• WACDEP contributes to the implementation of the GWP Strategy.
• Within the GWP Global Climate Change Operational Strategy.
Goal of WACDEP
The goal of WACDEP is to promote water as a key part of
sustainable regional and national development and
contribute to climate change adaptation for economic
growth and human security.
This means…linking the water, climate and economic development agendas and
strengthening coordination frameworks
Climate community(UNFCC COP people)Developement community Water community
.......Working across silos, bridging divides.......
Overall objective of WACDEP
To support integration of water security and climate resilience in
development planning and decision making processes
WHAT WILL WACDEP DELIVER?
What will WACDEP deliver?
4 WACDEP COMPONENTS1. No/low Regret investments in Regional and National
developmentWith the following sub-componets:
• Regional and Transboundary Cooperation
• National developement and sector plans
• No/low regrets investments
• Project preparation and financing
2. Demostration local projects: focusing on innovative solutions and water-food-energy nexus
3. Capacity Development and Knowledge Awareness - for water security and climate resilience
4. Partnerships & sustainability
WATER CLIMATE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME -AFRICA
Water security and climate resilience integrated in Africa's growth and
development
Investments in regional and National
Development
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Innovative Green Solutions
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Knowledge and Capacity
Development
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Partnerships and Sustainability
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Enabling activities Integration, investments in Climate resilient growth and development
OVERVIEW OF THE ACTIVITES IN WACDEP and PROGRESS
What will WACDEP deliver?
North West Sahara Aquifer (SASS)
Volta Basin
Lake Chad Basin
Limpopo Basin
Kagera Basin
WP 1: Regional and Transboundary Cooperation – 5 transboundary basins
Support to the Volta Basin Authority in integrating no/low regret water security and climate resilience investments into their Master Plan on sustainable development and management water resources
Example of an intervention at the transboundary level– Supporting the VBA to integrate water security
and climate resilience
Identification and prioritisation of no/low regret investments from existing plans and also identifying new ones for integration into the Limpopo IWRM Plan
Example at the transboundary level – integrating no/low regret investments into the Limpopo IWRM Plan
Piloted in 8 countries so far:
•Ghana •Burkina Faso•Cameroon •Tunisia•Burundi•Rwanda•Mozambique•Zimbabwe
WP 2: National development and sector plans
• Climate Risk and Vulnerability Water Resources Mapping
• Tunisian Drought Management Guide will be reviewed and updated to take into account climate change impacts
Example of national level interventions – increasing water security and building climate resilience in Tunisia
WP 3: No/low regret investments in water security and climate resilience
To prioritise those investments that provide returns under a range of current and future scenarios (socio-economic and climatic)
Take into consideration environmental challenges and the role of the ecosystem
The growing economies and increasing demand on water resources
Economic growth driving demand for the resource
Taking into consideration population growth in Africa
Population growth in Africa
Urbanisation in Africa
Taking into consideration vulnerable and marginalised communities – through a gender lens
Uncertainty is not a reason for not acting.
No/low regret investments are a starting point to increasing water security and building climate resilience
Framework is key to the identification and prioritisation of no/low regret investments
Building on IWRM investments can be for:
•Infrastructure (both natural and engineered approaches)
•Ensuring reliable and timely information to support decision-making
•Building institutional capacity to manage water security in Africa
WP 3: No/low regret investments in water security and climate resilience
GWP w will work with development banks such as AfDB, DBSA, BOAD, World Bank to :
•Increase knowledge sharing on project preparations facilities•Identifying bottlenecks in project preparation•Further develop viable projects for project preparation
WP 3: Project Preparation and Financing
In East Africa:
Bugasera (Burundi and Rwanda) Project focusing on taking forward transboundary water management commitments in a shared catchment at the community level.
WP 5: Innovative Demonstration Projects – increasing water security and building climate resilience
In Central Africa:
In the Congo Basin and Lake Chad- building on existing initiatives related to climate change adaptation mechanisms at community level such as agro-forestry and rain water harvesting.
WP 5: Innovative Demonstration Project – increasing water security and building climate resilience
Working with the CDKN and CapNet to ensure capacity is built to identify, prioritise, appraise and integrate investments into development planning processes.
WP 6: Capacity Development
Collaboration with UNFCCC led to a joint publication
WP 7: Knowledge management and awareness
Advocacy in UNFCCC COP meetings
• With support from CDKN - knowledge products aimed at increasing the knowledge on water security and climate resilience have been
developed.
WP 7: Knowledge management and awareness
At least 33 Ministers and their representatives witnessed the
launch
WP 8: Partnership and Sustainablity
• Funding activities for the programme on-going
• Implementation teams and partnerships being set up at all levels
• Linkages and collaboration at all levels will be built continuously
GWP Regions outside Africa developing similar WACDEP initiatives
GWP- C working
with Carib
bean
Community
climate Change
Centre/CARCIOM
In Central America
– programme is
advanced working
with the Central
America Development Bank
In Asia and Central Eastern
Europe similar initiatives are
on-going
Global level working with WMO on Drought and Flood Management
Visit www.gwp.org/wacdep