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CIWA 2.0: A Decade of Cooperation on Climate-Resilient Development

2022 Mid-term Review

CIWA’s 2022 MTR assessed impact and provided key recommendations based on 112 stakeholder
consultations and six case studies. The evaluation concluded that, in its purpose and design, CIWA has
been a highly relevant and responsive source of financial, knowledge-based, and technical support in
both individual countries and regions across Africa. It found that CIWA is highly relevant for the
realization of the World Bank's regional Integration strategies (World Bank Africa Strategy 2019-2023
and updated Regional Integration and Cooperation Assistance Strategy 2021-2023), given that water is
a key resource for bringing people and countries together. The review concluded that CIWA has been a
highly flexible and adaptable partnership, working in many countries and offering versatile funding to
respond to emerging needs. Despite its strong focus on regional activities, such flexibility has allowed
CIWA to provide targeted support to individual low-capacity countries to enable their engagement in
transboundary water issues. Long-term engagement is also a key feature of CIWA’s implementation
model, which has been particularly important for achieving results in FCV environments (even if

nascent, in some cases).

The MTR also concluded that CIWA, as the only World Bank regional trust fund focusing on transboundary
waters in Africa, has a well-defined niche. It has a clear comparative advantage in capacity building and
institutional development and, unlike many other development partners, finances core costs in addition to
project costs. Finally, CIWA’s strong networks in the region provide a comparative advantage, although
partnerships with CSOs vary across basins and those with the private sector remain limited.

The 2022 MTR provided 11 key recommendations, including three that pertain to program design:

CIWA’s ToC and Results Framework should be further aligned. The Results Framework should
capture the regional outcomes and indicators associated with the intermediate outcomes and be
able to measure actual outcomes in addition to processes. To reflect CIWA's narrative (including
different theories of regional collaboration in WRM and development), the ToC should integrate
additional and/or more nuanced narrative text on results pathways in its sphere of influence. It
should be developed to include more specific water(-related) cooperation and change-related
pathways and outcomes, while being explicit about underlying assumptions and risks. It should
better reflect the program’s focus on cross-cutting priorities appropriately. Communications
priorities and outcomes should also be considered for inclusion in the Results Framework. CIWA
should decide if the development of the ToC and Results Framework needs to be accompanied by
a commensurate development indicator.

CIWA should monitor the actual implementation of the policies, strategies, frameworks, and plans
it has supported to understand their contributions to an improved enabling environment for
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regional cooperation and WRM planning. CIWA should provide a description of CIWA's contributions
to WRM management and development over the lifetime of the program’s engagements, beyond

individual projects (for example, where there are clear linkages to influenced projects or investments).

CIWA should diversify the stakeholders with whom it works. Specifically, it should engage with
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diversified national actors (beyond Water Ministries). t should also identify and build on
opportunities to work with the private sector and CSOs across all basins and regions (informed by its
extensive work in the Nile River Basin) to realize its multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder objectives.

The following CIWA 2.0 program formulation addresses these recommendations, the AC-endorsed
pipeline, and client priorities.

1 5 3 Referred to as “att ributions” in the MTR.