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Horn of Africa
Because of the borderlands’ regionality Not Eligible Pending Eleigibility Review Registered Under Preparation
and complexity, the World Bank’s
Groundwater for Resilience (GW4R)
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program requires a robust, tailored
approach to monitoring, learning, and
strengthening institutional capacity for
enhanced regional cooperation.
Now entering its third year, CIWA’s
Untapping Resilience grant is providing an
improved mechanism for the use of
project data through the Groundwater for
Resilience management information
system (GW4R-MIS) in GW4R Phase 1
countries (Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya)
(Figure 3). Emerging lessons from field-
and site-level data are being used to
analyze and advance the research and
bring the lessons back into the operation. Construction Exploration Irrigation Rehabilitation
This knowledge has mainly been used by
World Bank experts and UN agencies
(UNDP, UNESCO, and UNICEF) to strengthen
implementation through the three learning
pillars of CIWA’s Untapping Resilience and
will be used to inform a potential phase 2 in
these and/or other countries.
In the last FY of GW4R implementation,
the team finalized site selection for
borderland groundwater investments in
Kenya and Somalia and conducted site
visits to confirm eligibility of these sites
and define the scope of the
interventions. These visits were aimed at
maximizing impact and sustainability
while reducing risks. In Ethiopia, the Figures 4 and 5: MIS project maps. Top: classification of sites according to the eligibility process
project is moving toward execution of and readiness. Bottom: classification of sites according to the typology of intervention.
work in 22 sites (Figures 4 and 5).
These studies will greatly improve the Remote Monitoring Platform: FY24
Hydrogeological experts are advising on available data about HoA groundwater included further development,
key national and transnational aquifer resources. enhancement, and maintenance of
assessments being conducted under the GW4R-MIS, which is a
GW4R. While in Ethiopia assessments will Progress project-customized platform whose
be undertaken in the highlighted districts goal is to provide an overview of
(green areas; Figure 6), in Kenya, Component 1: Enhanced knowledge project progress and monitor and
groundwater aquifer assessments will be & learning on groundwater in the HoA manage real-time project risks at
conducted in seven aquifers (orange areas; This component involves a remote sub-project level. The team registered
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Figure 6), and a groundwater mapping monitoring platform (GEMS -based) 273 sites for potential groundwater
exercise is to start in Somalia at the country and a series of knowledge products investments and uploaded regular site
level (purple area; Figure 6). Under the across the three learning pillars of visits data, investment eligibility and
regional program, IGAD is assessing the Untapping Resilience: (i) Sustainable preparation documentation, and
Dawa transboundary aquifer (between Groundwater Service Delivery, quarterly site reports. Training was
Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia), and two (ii) Groundwater Addressing Fragility provided to project implementers,
more are under procurement for the and Enhancing Resilience, and (iii) including the third-party monitoring
Northern Basin and Shebelle Aquifers. Groundwater and Regional Integration. agent, who is contributing to data
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