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

Six ways that CIWA is evolving

1 Renewed strategic orientation

CIWA will refocus its approach to maximize its impact on investments. It will do this by
harmonizing diagnostic work (that focuses on the four cross-cutting themes of biodiversity,
climate resilience, GESI, and FCV support) with previously identified lending pipelines,
particularly regional WRM investments. Activities should link to WB lending pipelines. This
strategy is based on CIWA’s central action— to create the enabling environment to carry out
long-term cooperation, which is essential for the successful implementation of regional WRM
investments. These investments will provide equitable benefits and productive water use,
resulting in the above regional outcomes.

Enhanced use of, and approach to, FCV, GESI, biodiversity,
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and climate resilience

CIWA 2.0 builds on the progress of the four cross-cutting themes that are the pathways for
change to deliver results on the three Is. This means that every investment will have core results
pertaining to one or more pathway. In the original CIWA program, core cross-cutting sectors were
not specified, and these are now key themes because of client demand. To this end, CIWA has
now completed its FCV framework, GESI framework, biodiversity framework, and a whole-of-
program climate resilience assessment. The GESI and biodiversity frameworks identify sub-
theories of change and results frameworks that inform and connect to the CIWA-wide ToC and
Results Framework. The FCV framework and climate resilience assessment do not have their own
ToC or results framework but are used to create pathways for change in the overall CIWA 2.0 ToC.

In CIWA 2.0’ s new ToC, FCV,

GESI, biodiversity, and climate
resilience are the pathways to
achieving impact on the three s.
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3 Diversified investment portfolio

CIWA’s original focus on infrastructure as its third pillar, which centered on gray infra structure
(mostly large dams), is too narrow to meet c urrent needs on the continent and now focuses
more broadly on investments. In CIWA 2.0, operations are being designed to influence more
diversified investments that include groundwater resources management, NBS, biodiversity,
and livelihoods and jobs. This change is not intended to eliminate either large dams or other
grey infrastructure from CIWA’s portfolio, but rather to recognize that different types of

investments are needed in different basins or aquifers and that the solution for water
insecurity is a regionally optimized and diversified portfolio. Most countries have limited
resources and must look for efficient approaches to increase their storage capacity. These
include leveraging and maximizing natural storage resources; evaluating opportunities for
reoperating, rehabilitating, or retrofitting existing storage; building new storage; and reforming
storage management (e.g., investing in institutions to manage storage better); and considering

alternatives to storage, ranging from managing how much water is used to alternative supply
measures such as wastewater reuse.

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