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Investments

Thematic CIWA Activity Link - Biodiversity Action Linkages Linkages
Area - Direct - Indirect
Smaller-scale structural and non-structural investments for generating Sustainable agricultural
quick, tangible benefits to the basins’ stakeholders—mostly focused on practices
irrigated agriculture (including flood recession irrigation), fishery and X
aquaculture with the aim of improving livelihoods and food security, Sustainable resource
and contributing to a reduction in poverty and malnutrition. harvesting

Natural capital & provision of
ecosystems services
Small-scale structural and non-structural investments for reducing
environmental degradation, including watershed management, river X
bank restoration and protection. Improved ecosystem
integrity, species diversity &
connectivity
Investments on the ground significantly benefitted the basin’s population,
including increases in rural incomes and food security through the Sustainable agricultural X
rehabilitation/modernization of 20,000 ha of irrigated land benefitting practices
60,000 farmers.

Investments Sustainable agricultural
practices
Restoration of degraded land restored through agroforestry and other
interventions; control and clearance of invasive aquatic species which Sustainable resource X X
harvesting
has boosted the development of the fisheries sector at these locations, in
addition to better supplying downstream irrigation schemes.
Improved ecosystem
integrity, species diversity &
connectivity
Improved / strengthened
governance & transboundary
collaboration
LCBC has secured multiple investments for basin development and set the
stage for a regional cooperation platform. Enabling this progress was the
Lake Chad Development and Climate Resilience Action Plan, prepared Role of climate change X
adaption in current
and disseminated at the 2015 Conference of the Parties, or COP 21 freshwater resource planning
meeting, in Paris.
and management
Decision-making tools
Assessment – Southern Africa

Information

Thematic CIWA Activity Link - Biodiversity Action Linkages Linkages
Area - Direct - Indirect

Data gathering, inventories,
analytical & technical support

Decision-making tools
knowledge-sharing and
Development of the Multi-Sector Investment Opportunities Analysis exchange
(MSIOA). The MSIOA is part of a systematic strategy by the Permanent
Okavango River Basin Water Commission (OKACOM). The joint actions Natural capital & provision of
Information identified through the MSIOA inform the Sustainable and Equitable ecosystems services X X
Climate Resilient Investment Program and are structured around the
following three key areas: climate-resilient livelihoods enhancement, Improved ecosystem
enhancing eco-tourism, and joint infrastructure development. integrity, species diversity &
connectivity
Role of climate change
adaption in current
freshwater resource planning
and management

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