Leaving No One Behind: CIWA’s Integration of a Social Inclusion Perspective

Posted in : Latest on 18 August 2023

The World Bank positions social inclusion as creating opportunities for all people while addressing deep-rooted systemic inequalities. The Cooperation in International Waters in Africa (CIWA), a World Bank trust partnership that supports riparian governments in Sub-Saharan Africa to address constraints to cooperative management and development of transboundary waters, recognizes the importance of applying a social inclusion lens to its work as part of its commitment to a transformative approach to gender and social inclusion. When conducting social inclusion analyses CIWA seeks to determine whether men and women and the different social identities they occupy have the same access to and control of roles, power, and resources at the institutional, regional, national and local level.

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