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Support to FCV-affected regions

with the aim of designing better, more In FY25, ongoing CIWA operations management in FCV-affected
targeted investments for these anticipate delivering core results regions. The World Bank’s emphasis on
vulnerable populations in FCV settings. with FCV-affected communities in climate resilience and regional public
Untapping Resilience is helping the South Sudan for flood resilience; goods puts CIWA at the forefront of
GW4R program collect original data on groundwater management in the improving regional cooperation and
local conflicts (often between Horn of Arica borderlands, DRC, and water security. However, the costs for
pastoralists and farmers) and the Zimbabwe, and WRM planning in working in FCV-affected locations are
water-related drivers of conflicts in the Ethiopia and Burundi. New support to much higher than average. CIWA
HoA borderlands and use their findings West Africa and the DREVE program operations maximize the use of RS and
to improve investment planning. In will likely add Cameroon, Earth Observation data, however,
FY24, the team released a Policy Brief 47 Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria third-party monitoring and
based on data collected by the Rift to the list of FCV-affected countries UN-facilitated transport drive up the
Valley Institute. The report concludes with CIWA operations. Lake Chad and costs several-fold. Commitment to
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that while access to water often the RCRP support will address core these countries must include not only
exacerbates long-standing disputes water security and climate resilience greater efficiency but more funding.
between communities, historic issues in multiple FCV-affected
competition at the individual, clan, or countries. The support to Lake Kariba
communal level may be a more to address international tensions over
significant conflict driver in the HoA fisheries will be like work that the NBI
borderlands. It provides a series of and NBD completed on Lake Albert
recommendations to improve water and Lake Edward fisheries to In FY24, the World Bank
point sustainability and investment coordinate policies and practices for designated 18 countries in
planning, and the GW4R-MIS tracks the DRC and Uganda. SSA as FCV-affected
geo-tagged community survey results
about conflict drivers and occurrences CIWA has a comparative advantage situations; CIWA supported
(cross-referenced with water points). for working on water resources work in eight of these.

47 Groundwater Management in the Horn of Africa: Conflict, Scarcity, and Hybrid Governance.
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48 See the CIWA FY23 Annual Report for a description of the study scope and methods.
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