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at Nile-SEC; gender training and action plans;
INTERMEDIATE RESULTS INDICATOR 1A:
operational EN-FFEWS and Nile DEWS; dam safety
Institutions with improved engagement of civil capacity (including DSUs); enhanced water-quality
society, private sector, and academia
databases, equipment procurement, and hotspot
prioritization; policy and strategy drafting at LVBC;
FY24 Actual: and planning model consultations and community
Refer to the FY24 report, page 97-98.
flood preparedness and information services.
FY25 Target: Work from FY24 from NCCR and Sustainable • Improving Water Resources Management in West and
Groundwater Management in SADC Member States Phase Central Sahel convened and supported ECOWAS,
2 will continue, including flood community awareness and CILSS, WAEMU, NBA, and OMVS to strengthen
preparedness for 17 flood-prone sites in the Nile Basin. regional cooperation and investment preparation,
Other operations are still in the planning phases but may including expert committee engagement and study
begin accruing results in FY25.
quality assurance (e.g., navigation, locks/dikes). It
created avenues for private sector access to the
FY25 Actual:
West Africa Water Fund. Institutional strengthening
covered pragmatic WRM assessments, financing
• The Untapping Resilience initiative linked its MIS to structure design for the Water Fund, formulation of
IGAD datasets and supported operationalization priority projects and bankable concepts (SMAB),
of the IGAD GWIS and the 3rd IGAD Water Forum, options for a permanent Secretariat and scientific
fostering regional political buy-in and data sharing. committee, national workshops on data sharing and
It collaborated with NGOs/civil society and monitoring, and participation in high-level regional
research partners (e.g., Rift Valley Institute, Centre processes to inform DREVE design and co-financing.
for Humanitarian Change) and worked with UN
agencies (UNDP, UNESCO, and UNICEF), including • Lake Chad Water Security supported LCBC by
a joint landscape analysis of the groundwater tailoring the IGains4Gains data platform for
drilling market that engaged private drilling firms basin-wide evidence-based decision making
and explored local private/utility-based O&M and presenting irrigation infrastructure findings.
models. It strengthened institutions through a Institutional strengthening included comparative legal
remote monitoring platform and MIS, extensive staff and policy analysis across basin countries, a best-
training, conflict-sensitivity and safeguards tools, practices Guidance Note, and recommendations
regular learning workshops, and focal point group to improve implementation, monitoring, and
meetings to improve transboundary groundwater enforcement; integrate human/customary rights;
management and investment feasibility.
protect vulnerable groups; enhance cross-sectoral
coordination; and adopt participatory planning and
• South Sudan Transboundary Waters Support binding instruments, with a Sustainable Irrigation
strengthened South Sudan’s MWRI and collaboration Development Plan slated for completion.
with NBI centers (ENTRO and NELSAP) to advance
multi-hazard early-warning and transboundary • Sustainable Groundwater Management in SADC
water cooperation. It convened dialogue among – Phase II (SADC-GMI) engaged Member States,
national authorities, humanitarian actors, and local RBOs (e.g., LIMCOM, OKACOM, ZAMCOM, BUPUSA),
stakeholders and coordinated with UNHCR and and established/strengthened National Focal
the Commission for Refugee Affairs to map actors Groups and stakeholder dialogues. It built extensive
in refugee-hosting areas. Institutional capacity academic partnerships (UFS, Mzuzu, Botswana,
was reinforced through integration of flood-risk Namibia), expanded a Young Professionals
information into planning, enhanced observation program (webinars, scholarships), and supported
and forecasting, improved risk communication (e.g., civil society engagement through dialogues and
EO map dissemination), climate-risk management capacity building. Institutional gains include an
reviews, and groundwork for information-sharing expanded SADC-GIP and literature archive, training
protocols with the NBI.
and sub-grants benefiting over 100,000 people,
financial sustainability (reserve fund), revision of
• The NCCR project supported NBI (Nile-SEC, the Regional Water Policy (toward 2025 approval),
ENTRO, NELSAP-CU) and LVBC and facilitated an and ongoing studies and JSAPs for priority
experiential exchange with ZAMCOM. It engaged transboundary aquifers.
civil society via NBD and trained environment/
science journalists while advancing gender • Strengthening Transboundary Basin Organizations
mainstreaming and GESI in stakeholder processes. supported the CORB and Zambezi basins and the
Institutional strengthening included upgraded Congo-Ubangi-Sangha, focusing engagements
communication and stakeholder engagement

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