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

CIWA’s Impact

Between 2011 and 2023, CIWA has mobilized investments worth US$6 billion that are estimated to
benefit 15.5 million people. The total value of CIWA’s mobilized and potential investments is more than
US$17 billion; 1.7 times larger than the target of US$10 billion. CIWA has influenced six major hydropower
investments (four of which are mobilized) that could result in the avoidance of up to 26.4 million metric
tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO e) annually.
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CIWA has been a core funder of the production and use of regional African river basin modeling and
hydromet data, groundwater information systems, and other public data tools. Operations and
analytical products have directly influenced regional investment plans (e.g., Niger Climate Resilience
Investment Plan [CRIP], Nile Equatorial Lakes Investment Program [NELIP], the Multi-Sector Investment
Opportunity Analysis [MSIOA] of the permanent Okavango River Basin Water Commission [OKACOM])
and over US$4.2 billion in World Bank-funded projects.

CIWA has also made major contributions to core national capacity and policies, water charters, regional
technical capacity, inclusion, strategic planning, and resource mobilization in every region. A total of 20
SSA regional institutions have implemented CIWA activities and benefited from CIWA technical
assistance. Partnerships have included the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), Nile
Basin Discourse (NBD), Nile Basin Initiative (NBI), OKACOM, Southern African Development Community
Groundwater Management Institute (SADC-GMI), Niger Basin Authority (NBA), Volta Basin Authority
(VBA), Limpopo Watercourse Commission (LIMCOM), two transfrontier conservation area management
boards (Parfuri-Sengwe and Greater Limpopo), Organisation pour la mise en valeur du fleuve Sénégal
(OMVS), Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC), and Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC).

CIWA has influenced over 47 climate adaptation investments and promoted regional cooperation on
flood-risk reduction, provided WRM training and expertise to RBOs to improve the climate resilience of
water systems, and supported the supply side of water management by expanding storage and

improving cooperation on shared water resources.

Over this period, CIWA projects have implemented internship and Young Professional programs that
actively recruit women and people affected by fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) to expand the
equitable representation in the male-dominated water sector. These efforts have benefited people
from over 20 countries; approximately one-third have been women.

By the second MTR (2022), CIWA had shifted in response to the 2015 MTR, various context changes,
new opportunities, and client demand. During the first 10 years, stakeholders shaped CIWA
programming to be more purposeful in various dimensions, and CIWA delivered on its results, targets,

and programs. A new pipeline was needed with a renewed approach to programming that better
represented CIWA’s comparative advantage for supporting sustained regional cooperation on water
resources management and development. In 2024, the World Bank and CIWA partners (the Advisory
Committee) extended the CIWA Multi-Donor Trust Fund to 2031, coinciding with a new Advisory
Committee-endorsed program pipeline. The CIWA 2.0 pipeline is an exciting approach to building on
and leveraging results from the first 10 years to expand the benefits of regional cooperation deeper
into basin and institutional partnerships; however, 90 percent of the new pipeline needs new funding
over the extended period.

The following summarizes the 2022 Mid-Term Review to provide context for the development of CIWA
2.0 and how that is reflected in the revised Theory of Change and Results Framework.

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