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CIWA Climate Resilience & mitigation Assessment

CIWA activities have concentrated on a clear subset of Climate change was central to the Lake Chad
dimensions of climate resilience. In the future, CIWA Development and Climate Resilience Action Plan, which
activities could be further diversified to account for identified investments that could support regional
important emerging aspects of climate resilience in the development and strengthen resilience to climate
water sector such as nature-based solutions for flood change. CIWA’s current Lake Chad Basin operation
protection or the optimization of water infrastructure includes a thematic note on Water and the Climate-
design based on climate and hydrological models. Conflict trap.³⁴
A complete compilation of CIWA’s cumulative climate CIWA has positioned and crafted its support at the
change resilience actions are out of scope of this intersection of climate change, resilience, and FCV-
report, but the reader is referred to the many examples related challenges, given historic conflicts in the HoA.
in this report, Annexes 3 and 4, and CIWA Annual CIWA is contributing to resilience by incorporating
Reports. Notable highlights include: robust designs in investment proposals in the Untapping
Resilience BETF.

In FY23, CIWA contributed to the Country Climate and In Southern Africa, much of CIWA’s support to SADC
Development Reports for the G5 Sahel region,³³ which countries has been through two projects implemented
estimated that climate shocks could force as many as by the SADC-Groundwater Management Institute (GMI)
13.5 million more Sahelians into poverty by 2050 if to develop capacity and knowledge for inclusive
urgent climate adaptation measures are not taken. groundwater management and use at community,
national, and transboundary levels, which is critical for
CIWA has contributed to resilience in the Eastern Nile by addressing an increasingly drought-prone region. The
developing a flood early-warning system that is used by SADRI technical assistance worked with countries, cities,
the Eastern Nile Technical Regional Office (ENTRO) to and the SADC to adopt a unified approach to drought
generate and disseminate flood forecasts to member risk assessment under three sectoral pillars—cities,
countries. In Sudan, CIWA responded to devastation energy systems, and livelihoods and food security.
caused by floods with technical support on flood
damage assessment and development of a recovery
plan. This included supporting the Emergency
Operations Center, carrying out a post-disaster needs
assessment, and identifying medium- to long-term
support to improve flood resilience.
In the Niger Basin, CIWA supported environmental
impact assessment studies as a mechanism for limiting
the Fomi Dam project’s detrimental environmental CIWA-Influenced Climate
effects (see Box 1). The CIWA-financed CRIP was
developed to mobilize and coordinate investments in Resilience Investments
climate resilience. The Niger Inner Delta modeling effort
implemented by the NBA with CIWA support helps basin Table 6 highlights Investments that included climate
stakeholders better understand how projected changes resilience benefits, distinguishing between mobilized and
in the climate could impact flooded areas and social potential investments. See Annex 4 for the full list of CIWA-
systems that rely on the wetlands. influenced resilience investments.

Table 6: Number of resilience investments identified in CIWA-influenced operations

No. of Resilience investments
Sector CIWA Operation
Mobilized Potential

Nile Cooperation for Results 6 9
Nile
Additional financing for Nile Cooperation for Results 1 5

Cubango-Okavango Cubango-Okavango Resilient Livelihoods 0 3
Enhancement Program

Sustainable Groundwater Management in SADC
Transboundary Member States Phase 1 12 0
aquifers in the SADC
region Sustainable Groundwater Management in SADC
Member States Phase 2 11 0

³³ https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/infographic/2022/09/19/g5-sahel-region-country-climate-and-development-report
³⁴ https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/water/water-security-way-out-conflict-climate-risk-trap-lake-chad-basin 17