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Climate Resilience

Climate

Resilience

ransboundary water management of climate change regarding • On a much smaller scale, CIWA
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is a global public good that is often transboundary waters management multiple operations also contribute
a prerequisite for other public goods and development and regional water to GHG mitigation through
such as access to safe, reliable water security more broadly, however, it implementation of solar-powered
and resilience to extreme weather. lacked a systematic view of its pumps for groundwater use.
While it is widely acknowledged that climate-resilience portfolio. The
international waters have created stocktaking shows that CIWA has • CIWA has influenced the design of
opportunities for fostering regional significantly contributed to enhancing additional potential investments
economic and political integration climate change resilience and that would lead to GHG mitigation
through cooperative development, the mitigation in transboundary water (through hydropower, solar-
added complexity of cooperation in resource management and powered pumps, and watershed
internationally shared river basins can development in most, if not all, basins management) when they are
also lead to tension and suboptimal and regions where it works in eventually realized, including
development of shared public goods. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Climate potential investments from Nile,
Climate change is a conflict multiplier, resilience has been a core objective of Niger, Cubango-Okavango River
and water scarcity during droughts has many of its strategies and projects. Basin operations.
been a direct source of small-scale CIWA facilitated regional climate
violent conflicts between pastoralists change scenario planning and • The most prevalent climate
and farmers throughout SSA, with included climate risk assessments in resilience actions supported by
women and girls facing the most the planning and development of CIWA operations relate to (i)
negative impacts. water infrastructure. CIWA also promotion of regional cooperation
supported studies and projects that on flood risk reduction, (ii) provision
Since its inception, CIWA has brought target water sectors with high of water resources management
climate change mitigation and vulnerability or adaptation potential (WRM) training and expertise to
resilience considerations to the such as groundwater, flood and river basin organizations (RBOs) to
forefront of its work. It is well aligned drought management, and agricultural improve the climate resilience of
with the World Bank’s Climate Change water use. Through collaboration with water systems, and (iii) support for
Action Plan 2021-2025 and Action Plan the World Bank’s Environment and the supply side of water
on Adaptation and Resilience, which other Global Practices and management by expanding
prioritize mainstreaming climate change international NGOs, CIWA connects supplies, reducing water losses,
and addressing climate resiliency. climate change to other regional and and/or improving cooperation on
Cooperative transboundary WRM is global challenges such as gender shared water resources.
important for a climate-resilient planet equity, poverty reduction, biodiversity,
and people. migration, and fragility in its work. • CIWA also contributes to climate
resilience through influencing
To inform its engagement in The stocktaking and analysis found investments in flood protection,
international waters, CIWA undertook these key results: water quality, and water supply.
a strategic assessment of its Sanitation, including wastewater
climate-resilience portfolio to identify • The predominant mechanism that management and wastewater
the opportunities, value proposition, CIWA contributes to climate change collection, transportation, treatment,
and risks for moving CIWA’s mitigation is through its influence on and disposal is the least represented
transboundary engagements forward six major hydropower investments: water sub-sector in CIWA’s portfolio,
with a new CIWA pipeline and four mobilized and two potential. with only one occurrence, which was
potentially suggest new focus areas for Mobilized hydropower investments to be expected considering that
engagement. CIWA prioritizes work to resulted in greenhouse gas (GHG) CIWA focuses on water resources
address the consequences and causes mitigation of 23,770 ktCO2eq/year management.

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