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7. Investments with regional benefits that have influenced by Untapping Resilience and Sustainable
been advanced through CIWA support Groundwater Management in the SADC Member States
Phase 2 projects.
See Tables A2.1 and A2.2.
FY25 Actual: Sustainable Groundwater Management in
FY24 Actual: CIWA has provided technical advice on SADC Member States—Phase II increased the subgrants
the tendering of engineering designs to the first batch of to 24 total in 12 SADC Member States, however, this is
Ethiopian water schemes implemented through the HoA still counted as one suite of investments with increased
Groundwater for Resilience phase 1 program. This was value and beneficiaries. The Nsongezi Hydropower Project
influenced by work in the Untapping Resilience technical transitioned from potential to mobilized.
assistance. Sustainable Groundwater Management in the
SADC Member States Phase 2 project added 12 subgrants FY26 Target: In FY26, additional updates to mobilized
for national groundwater investments.
groundwater investments from Untapping Resilience will
likely accrue. Additional NCORE investment mobilization
FY25 Target: Possibly any of the four water-quality is possible as 12 more are ready for resource mobilization.
hotspots in Ethiopia, South Sudan, Uganda, and Tanzania NCCR will mobilize small investments in water quality
identified through NCCR will be taken up in a near-future monitoring on the Akagera River as part of the Lake Victoria
project. FY25 will likely have additional investments
water quality plan.

8. Number of people supported to have better FY25 Actual: Cumulatively over 598,000 people
climate change resilience (52,000 women) have improved climate adaptation from
Sustainable Groundwater Management in SADC Member
FY24 Actual: 415,653 people, including 164,000 States—Phase II sub-grants. Note that 251,000 beneficiaries
beneficiaries from Ethiopia borderland groundwater were previously reported for this program: a difference of
investments and 251,653 from Somalia groundwater 347,000 people.
investments. All 415,653 people benefiting from the
groundwater investments are from FCV-affected FY26 Target: Untapping Resilience will begin to
communities. These numbers are from government accrue direct beneficiaries of the groundwater supply
population data, so they are not disaggregated further.
investments. These wells are solar-pumped, therefore,
this is both adaptation and mitigation. People will
FY25 Target: Sustainable Groundwater Management also benefit (adaptation) from the new water quality
of SADC Member States will improve citizen science monitoring stations through NCCR. Beneficiaries of the
by conducting participatory research to draw out flood early-warning support will be reported.
the knowledge of communities about the value of
biodiversity. NCCR will benefit people at risk of flash
floods and droughts in the Nile Basin.

9. Climate change mitigation or adaptation
benefits from cooperative management and
development investments and CIWA activities

FY24 Actual: FY25 Target:

• Improved water supply and water quality in Ethiopia • Additional groundwater investments in the HoA
borderlands. borderlands.

• Improved groundwater supply and management in • Implementation of additional groundwater
SADC Member States. investments through subgrants in the SADC program.

• Enhanced flood early-warning systems in the • Enhanced flood early-warning system in NEL.
Eastern Nile.
• Nile Basin drought early-warning system is available.

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