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Water Data Revolution: Closing the data gap for transboundary water in Africa

Acknowledgment

This report was developed by the WDR team led by Noosha Tayebi (Sr. Water Resources
Management Specialist, Task Team Lead), with critical support from Ana Cecilia Escalera
Rodriguez (Water Resources Management Specialist). We extend our sincere gratitude to the

entire WDR team for their unwavering support throughout the program, as well as their
invaluable contributions, including brainstorming, technical reviews, and validation of inputs:
Erwin De Nys, Winston Yu, Nagaraja Rao Harshadeep, Poolad Karimi, Alona Nesterova, Kelsey
Reeves and Vitor Malagutti. We also extend sincere gratitude to Christina Leb, Bogachan Benli,
and Yukio Tanaka for their critical review and feedback, which were instrumental for improving
the quality of this report.

This initiative was made possible through collaborative efforts with various river basin and
regional organizations across Africa, who generously shared their experiences and insights. We
would like to acknowledge the contributions of the following: Cuvelai Watercourse Commission

(CUVECOM), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Incomati and Maputo
Watercourse Commission (INMACOM), Komati Basin Water Authority (KOBWA), Lake Chad Basin
Commission (LCBC), Lake Kivu and Ruzizi River Basin Authority (ABAKIR), Lake Victoria Basin
Commission (LVBC), Mano River Union (MRU), Niger Basin Authority (NBA), Nile Basin Initiative
(NBI) (including the NBI Secretariat (Nile-SEC), Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Program
(NELSAP), and Eastern Nile Technical Regional Office (ENTRO)), Okavango River Basin Water
Commission (OKACOM) Secretariat, Organization for the Development of the Gambia River
(OMVG), Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS), Southern African Development Community
(SADC), Volta Basin Authority (VBA), and Zambezi River Authority (ZRA).

Special thanks go to the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) for their support in
developing the Water Accounting dashboards and for providing continuous technical capacity to
the selected River Basin Organizations. We are particularly grateful to our colleagues at the Volta
Basin Authority, Incomati and Maputo Watercourse Commission, and Zambezi Watercourse
Commission for their active engagement and valuable feedback throughout the dashboard
development process.

Finally, we extend our appreciation to the Cooperation in International Waters in Africa (CIWA)

and its program managers: Lars Anders Jagerskog and Ai-Ju Huang, for their support, which has
been instrumental in the successful implementation of this program.

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