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CIWA 2.0: A Decade of Cooperation on Climate-Resilient Development
4 Scaling up influence and leveraging regional projects
One of CIWA’s major advantages is that it is nimble and flexible in its partnerships; however,
scaling up CIWA’s results depends on additional IDA financing and lending. In line with change #1,
CIWA is committed to ramping up results and having its investments mobilized such as through
World Bank lending or other funding streams. However, until recently, the IDA has not directed
much financing for regional integration to water projects. The World Bank is now funding (through
national and regional integration funds) two large CIWA-influenced Multiphase Programmatic
Approaches (MPAs)— the HoA Groundwater for Resilience (GW4R) and the Regional Climate
Resilience Program (RCRP). There is pipeline scaling up of regional integration financing for two
more programs (the Development Resilience and Valorization of Transboundary Water for West
Africa [DREVE] and Lake Victoria Basin Sanitation programs) that were heavily influenced by CIWA.
CIWA 2.0 will prioritize work that can be readily scaled up through pipeline lending.
5 Enhanced bottom-up approach.
CIWA will double down on its approach to subsidiarity, further expanding its work to elevate the
role of communities and civil society in peace building, water management, and security and
democratizing information about climate resilience and regional public goods. CIWA has an
excellent track record of partner diversification and stakeholder vertical integration. CIWA has
supported the NBD through both Bank-executed and recipient-executed grants for over a decade,
and in 2022 began taking steps to expand the work with civil society to West and Central Africa.
Recent support to the large MPAs brings activities on community engagement for groundwater
management to the Horn of Africa Borderlands and to a new program in Southern Africa under the
RCRP involving a regional community cooperation platform on flood preparedness.
Regional Climate Resilient and Inclusive Development
Climate Biodiversity
Resilience & Conservation
Support to FCV Gender & Social
Regions Inclusion
Figure 2. CIWA Pathways to Impact
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