CIWA Climate Resilience & Mitigation Assessment

Summary

Transboundary water resources management is a global public good that depends on access to safe, reliable water and resilience to extreme weather. CIWA interventions linked to climate resilience are designed as part of river basin planning frameworks and aligned with regional climate change strategies.

To inform its engagement in African international waters, CIWA undertook this strategic assessment of the scope of climate resilience and mitigation in its cumulative portfolio to identify opportunities, value proposition, and risks. This cumulative stocktaking assessment of CIWA operations, their influence, and comparative advantage on climate mitigation and resilience outcomes aims to highlight CIWA’s cross-cutting pathways to impact in the three Is and determine if there are missed opportunities for future consideration. For this analysis, both types of CIWA operations – Bank executed Trust Funds (BETFs) and Recipient-executed Trust Funds (RETFs) – from 2011 to date were classified according to climate change resilience or mitigation measures.