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Annexes

5. Transboundary water arrangements (basins FY25 Actual:
or aquifer) supported to enhance a) biodiversity • The revised SADC Regional Water Policy embeds
and conservation, b) GESI, c) peace, or d) climate
gender inclusivity.
resilience
FY24 Actual: • Sahel Irrigation Strategy strengthens food security,
inclusive growth, jobs, and resilience. It includes NBS
• Review of the SADC Regional Water Policy (2005) and biodiversity, gender equality, conflict mitigation,
to accommodate groundwater and other emerging and climate resilience.
regional priorities.

• East African Community (EAC) Water Quality policy, FY26 Target:
which includes GESI and biodiversity considerations.
CIWA will support three basin groundwater strategic
• Water Quality Management Strategy for the Nile action plans are to be created with the Buzi, Pungwe,
Equatorial Lakes and its Action Plan, which includes and Save Watercourses Commission, OKACOM, and
climate resilience and biodiversity considerations. ZAMCOM, continued development of the Tuli-Karoo joint
strategic action plan, and new joint strategic action plans
FY25 Target: for the Karoo Sedimentary Aquifer (Lesotho & South
SADC-GMI will roll out implementation of the Policy, Legal, Africa) and Sedimentary Basin VI Aquifer (Mozambique &
and Institutional Framework for Untapping Resilience and South Africa). Technical assistance to the SMAB Regional
the South Sudan development in the Member States that Working Group will help finalize a regional agreement,
have developed framework roadmaps. targeted for signing at the 2026 UN Water Conference.

6. World Bank projects informed by CIWA

Value of World Bank Project
Informed World Bank Project CIWA operation How project was informed
(million USD)

NCORE, NCCR, Strengthening
Regional Climate
Transboundary Basin
Resilience Program for pending Organizations through Provided support to prepare
Eastern and Southern new phase
Program Development and
Africa phase 2*
Capacity Building in Africa
GEF Cubango- Zambezi River Basin
Okavango River Basin: pending Management Project Design based on CIWA-funded
Financing Innovation in and Zambezi River Basin MSOIA
Transboundary Waters* Development Project

Regional Climate Resilience Provided support to prepare
Program for Eastern and 384 NCORE, NCCR, and SADRI new phase
Southern Africa

Untapping Resilience,
HoA Groundwater Initiative,
Horn of Africa— Groundwater 385 Provided support to prepare
for Resilience Project Strengthening Resilience new phase
in the HoA, Support to
Transboundary WRM

Promoting Livable and
Productive Lake Victoria Decision support system to
Basin Communities 150 Great Lakes Water
Quality and NCORE support investment planning.
through Lake Wide
Inclusive Sanitation

Project design and planning
Kandadji Project 408 Niger River Basin support. Support to design
Management Project and implementation of
resettlement action plan.
* Added FY25.

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