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Cross-Cutting Themes: Support to FCV-affected Regions

In fiscal year 2025, CIWA provided support to several • In Southern Africa, CIWA’s support for the SADC-GMI and
countries grappling with FCV challenges. In East Africa, efforts to develop sustainable groundwater management
for example, the NCCR project helped countries in the Nile are helping countries including the Democratic Republic
River Basin by creating a platform for cooperation among of Congo, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe. These countries,

communities, policymakers, and water managers. This which have experienced conflict and fragility, are now
collaboration strengthened the sustainable and equitable better equipped to manage severe droughts, climate
management of the basin’s water resources, which in consequences, loss of livelihoods, and disputes over
turn contributed to climate resilience, long-term regional water resources.

development, and the reduction of conflicts in the region.
• In West and Central Africa, CIWA’s work on improving
• In the Horn of Africa, CIWA’s work in the borderlands— water resources management in the Sahel is helping

areas with weak institutions and governance—focused to reduce conflict fueled by water stress. Activities in

on addressing the high risk of conflict driven by this region, such as support for a proposed large-scale
climate pressures on natural resources. The Untapping irrigation plan and the DREVE program, are designed to
Resilience project is advancing the sustainable use of proactively address climate change impacts and FCV
groundwater to support climate resilience, water security, challenges, including volatility, weak state institutions, and
and livelihoods, helping to tackle the root causes of ongoing political crises.
conflict and migration. CIWA also supported South Sudan,

a country facing severe fragility and conflict, by helping

it better cope with flooding, other climate impacts, and a

growing humanitarian crisis.

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