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CIWA Climate Resilience & mitigation Assessment

For some closed projects, components expressed in Climate Adaptation Indicator
the PAD were either modified or did not reach full
completion at project closure. Likewise, characterization Mapping Analysis and Results
of components from the PAD or Concept Note could lead
to an overestimate since components that are only A total of 179 CIWA project components were
partially implemented or dropped altogether do not matched with the 30 climate adaptation indicators
achieve expected results. Therefore, the best source of from Table 5. Annex 3 illustrates the distribution of
data was taken from Implementation Completion and climate adaptation indicators across CIWA project
Results Reports, however these exist only for completed activities. Annex 4 shows alignment of the adaptation
recipient-executed operations. Additional data was taken indicators with the CIWA-influenced investments that
from Activity Completion Reports, for closed Bank-
executed operations. Future analyses could improve the have significant adaptation benefits.
precision of current results once all operations are
completed and their results documented. Overall, the World Bank Water Global Practice climate co-
benefits typology for adaptation actions matched CIWA
where expected: to date, CIWA has not had significant
In the second line of assessment, CIWA-influenced work in sectors related to drainage, reforestation,
investments were analyzed for their climate adaptation management of strategic food reserves, sanitation
benefits. CIWA operations were screened for systems, coastline protection, and others, however, it has
components that specifically facilitated the identification a large share of activities related to water monitoring and
or preparation of new investments. This can include information systems, filling in climate change-related
facilitation of investment dialogue, the development of data gaps, building WRM capacity, and contributing to
investment plans, or the financing of project preparation regional water management and development planning.
studies (e.g., feasibility studies, ESIAs). The identified
influenced investments were matched against the list of As noted above, WRM training of local water boards was
adaptation activities from Table 5. changed to RBOs to reflect CIWA’s focus on the regional and
transboundary levels instead of local level.
The sectoral groupings of flood protection; general water,
sanitation, and flood protection; and water supply are well
represented throughout CIWA project components.
Sanitation and wastewater management and wastewater
collection, transportation, treatment, and disposal are the
least represented grouping with one and zero occurrences,
respectively, which was to be expected considering that
CIWA is primarily active in WRM.

The most prevalent climate adaptation actions supported
by CIWA operations relate to promotion of regional
cooperation on flood risk reduction; provision of WRM
training and expertise to improve the climate resilience of
water systems; and support for supply-side water
management by expanding supplies, reducing water
losses, and/or improving cooperation on shared water
resources. About half of CIWA operations included provision
of missing climate-related data, watershed management
planning improvement and regulation of water abstraction,
and development of water monitoring and information
systems. Dam safety has so far been the focus of three
components of CIWA operations—this is perhaps a thematic
area where CIWA could expand its attention, not least in the
context of the recent devastating floods in Eastern Africa.
Drought risk management indicators have exclusively been
matched with components of CIWA’s Southern Africa
Drought Resilience Initiative (SADRI)—this is another area
where CIWA could scale up.

Finally, only one indicator (5.2 provide WRM training and
expertise to RBOs to improve climate-resilience of water
systems) captured the climate resilience potential of
transboundary water resources management and
cooperation. In future studies, it might be worthwhile to
investigate this dimension further. This could be achieved by
an in-depth climate-proofing analysis of water treaties and
charters of CIWA-supported river basins. An evaluation could
Decision Theater as part of the Nile Cooperation for Climate shed light on the degree to which RBO strategic documents
Resilience project at the Nile Basin Initiative Secretariat in not only consider current hydrological regimes, but also
Entebbe, Uganda. ©CIWA / World Bank future climatic scenarios and possible resilience measures.

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