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Biodiversity & Conservation Framework

Executive Summary

The Cooperation in International Waters in Africa (CIWA) Program The objective of the CIWA Biodiversity Framework is to
is a multi-donor trust fund that supports Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) align CIWA’s transboundary water cooperation efforts with
to realize sustainable, inclusive, climate-resilient growth by biodiversity conservation goals, including identifying
addressing constraints to cooperative management and opportunities at the intersection of transboundary water
development of transboundary waters. management and freshwater biodiversity conservation. The
vision of the Biodiversity Framework is improved
Unsustainable patterns of consumption and production are transboundary water management that supports biodiversity
recognized as the root causes of climate change, biodiversity loss, conservation to ensure more climate-resilient communities are
and pollution. These could be mitigated through the better equipped to plan for and mitigate climate-related
implementation of sustainable land use and resource shocks, support livelihoods, sustain health and life, and
management practices. Women in many developing countries are improve economies. The implementation of the CIWA
the principal users and managers of land, as farmers and Biodiversity Framework is focused on three inter-
pastoralists with primary responsibility for household food connected levels: i) programmatic level, ii) project level, and
production and water use. Their role in promoting sustainable land iii) tools and solutions. The implementation of the
management is an opportunity to achieve the dual objective of Framework will be guided by its Theory of Change (ToC),
sustainable land management and gender equality.¹ Considering which outlines the vision, context, key focus areas, and
these challenges, in FY23 CIWA assessed its biodiversity work, results areas for the CIWA Biodiversity Framework. This
which concluded that CIWA operations support a range of effort is a continuation of the World Bank’s commitment to
regional biodiversity-related activities. These activities provided supporting the implementation of the Global Biodiversity
both direct and indirect benefits to biodiversity conservation, Framework adopted at the 15th Conference of the Parties
however, they were largely opportunistic and lacked an explicit of the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15).
agenda and systematic approach to improve transboundary
water-related biodiversity conservation (see Annexes B and C ).

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