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CIWA 2.0: Pathways to Impact

Support to FCV-Affected Regions

IWA’s vision for its support to Cooperation and Fragility, Conflict, and 2. Contribute to peacebuilding and
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FCV-affected people is that Violence are the key documents that development. Through this
investing in cooperative management guide the World Bank’s engagement on framework and the environmental
of transboundary waters in basins FCV. CIWA is well-positioned to support and social safeguards
affected by FCV will ease tensions, African governments that are assessments, CIWA will identify
promote stability, and build resilience addressing FCV-related challenges, as three components: i) drivers of
to water shocks. many threats to growth and prosperity fragility, ii) mitigation measures,
are related to national and and iii) the operation’s contribution
CIWA’s FCV Framework provides World transboundary waters (e.g., migration, to peacebuilding and development.
Bank Task Teams step-by-step floods, droughts, food insecurity).
guidance to enhance the effectiveness CIWA’s nimble operational mechanisms, 3. Generate knowledge. Contribute to
of CIWA-funded activities in technical expertise, and convening expanding the knowledge base on
FCV-affected areas. It provides a power make the program a core transboundary waters management,
methodology for systematically applying resource to address some of the most FCV, and peacebuilding.
conflict sensitivity to project design. The complex challenges in water security.
Framework does not include an explicit
Theory of Change, but one of CIWA’s CIWA primarily works with regional FCV—Information:
overall regional outcomes is reduced risk institutions and therefore can continue
of resource-related conflict. CIWA WRM and development efforts even in CIWA collects, enhances, and
influences how informed and prepared basins where some member states are disseminates information to enable
people are for water scarcity by temporarily, intermittently, or even riparians to anticipate their
improving resilience through consistently affected by FCV. The NBI community-level water resources and
transboundary cooperation on WRM has supported the Nile basin through mitigate conflicts from water scarcity
and development. many transitions of member states in or insecurity. CIWA supports the
and out of FCV and influenced mobilized development and use of climate,
FCV is one of CIWA’s key cross-cutting investments that directly benefit weather, and water monitoring and
development priorities, along with FCV-affected states. This is only possible information systems by FCV-affected
GESI, resilience to climate change, and by sustaining long-term support and communities and governments.
biodiversity conservation. CIWA is one leveraging the abilities of
of the few mechanisms that can higher-capacity basin partners. CIWA This will be measured by the indicators:
maintain support to destabilized often complements recipient-executed
countries through its work with regional projects that are complex or in difficult Improved data and information
institutions and can leverage the locations with Bank-executed grants so systems that benefit people in
broader region for capacity building that the World Bank team can maximally FCV-affected situations and
when the time is right. There is a direct support implementation and help are used by communities
but complex interplay between FCV, partner institutions address their (disaggregate of CIWA 2.0 IR
GESI, climate change, biodiversity, and weaknesses and enhance capacity. One indicator 3.a).
political economy that requires example is CIWA’s support to the
integrated approaches to development, Government of Somalia through a
and transboundary WRM and Bank-executed grant while providing the FCV—Institutions:
development exist at their intersection. Intergovernmental Authority on
This Framework also recognizes that Development (IGAD) with recipient- CIWA supports sustainable capacity
women and other vulnerable executed funding in the Horn of Africa building for institutions to assist
populations tend to be more negatively (HoA) Groundwater Initiative project. FCV-affected stakeholders to
affected in FCV contexts and are often maintain and develop water resources
underutilized change agents in FCV Objectives of the CIWA FCV Framework: despite potential setbacks in
situations. governance or violent conflict. CIWA
1. Not contribute to conflict. To do supports capacity building of
CIWA works in many FCV-affected no harm, CIWA will purposefully FCV-affected institutions and people
countries in SSA included in the World navigate issues to avoid supporting to monitor and use their water and
Bank’s annually updated list of Fragile projects that could foreseeably climate information. This enhances
and Conflict-affected Situations. The cause or exacerbate conflict. their legitimacy so that they can
World Bank Group Strategy for Fragility, CIWA’s projects will exclusively engage with other riparian countries
Conflict, and Violence 2020-2025 and pursue no-regret and win-win on joint management and
the Bank Policy on Development opportunities for development. development plans on equal footing.

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