Implementing the Water, Climate and Development Programme in Africa by Andrew Takawira

Global Water Partnership Consulting Meeting 25 August 2012

Stockholm, Sweden

Implementing the Water, Climate and Development Programme in Africa

BACKGROUND

In November 2010 at the 3rd Africa Water Week in Addis Ababa:

AMCOW EXCO issued a decision for GWP and partners to operationalise the Water, Climate and Development Programme (WACDEP)

WACDEP implements commitments in the 2008

Sharm el Sheik Declaration by the AU

Heads of State

And is central to the delivery of climate related objectives in the AMCOW

Triennial WorkPlan

CONSTANT CONSULTATIONS WITH AMCOW TAC MEMBERS

9 Water Ministers attended the WACDEP Launch during 2011 Stockholm World Water Week

WACDEP builds on the lessons learnt in

IWRM Planning carried out from

2004 - 2009

• WACDEP contributes to the implementation of the GWP Strategy.

• Within the GWP Global Climate Change Operational Strategy.

Goal of WACDEP

The goal of WACDEP is to promote water as a key part of

sustainable regional and national development and

contribute to climate change adaptation for economic

growth and human security.

This means…linking the water, climate and economic development agendas and

strengthening coordination frameworks

Climate community(UNFCC COP people)Developement community Water community

.......Working across silos, bridging divides.......

Overall objective of WACDEP

To support integration of water security and climate resilience in

development planning and decision making processes

WHAT WILL WACDEP DELIVER?

What will WACDEP deliver?

4 WACDEP COMPONENTS1. No/low Regret investments in Regional and National

developmentWith the following sub-componets:

• Regional and Transboundary Cooperation

• National developement and sector plans

• No/low regrets investments

• Project preparation and financing

2. Demostration local projects: focusing on innovative solutions and water-food-energy nexus

3. Capacity Development and Knowledge Awareness - for water security and climate resilience

4. Partnerships & sustainability

WATER CLIMATE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME -AFRICA

Water security and climate resilience integrated in Africa's growth and

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Enabling activities Integration, investments in Climate resilient growth and development

OVERVIEW OF THE ACTIVITES IN WACDEP and PROGRESS

What will WACDEP deliver?

North West Sahara Aquifer (SASS)

Volta Basin

Lake Chad Basin

Limpopo Basin

Kagera Basin

WP 1: Regional and Transboundary Cooperation – 5 transboundary basins

Support to the Volta Basin Authority in integrating no/low regret water security and climate resilience investments into their Master Plan on sustainable development and management water resources

Example of an intervention at the transboundary level– Supporting the VBA to integrate water security

and climate resilience

Identification and prioritisation of no/low regret investments from existing plans and also identifying new ones for integration into the Limpopo IWRM Plan

Example at the transboundary level – integrating no/low regret investments into the Limpopo IWRM Plan

Piloted in 8 countries so far:

•Ghana •Burkina Faso•Cameroon •Tunisia•Burundi•Rwanda•Mozambique•Zimbabwe

WP 2: National development and sector plans

• Climate Risk and Vulnerability Water Resources Mapping

• Tunisian Drought Management Guide will be reviewed and updated to take into account climate change impacts

Example of national level interventions – increasing water security and building climate resilience in Tunisia

WP 3: No/low regret investments in water security and climate resilience

To prioritise those investments that provide returns under a range of current and future scenarios (socio-economic and climatic)

Take into consideration environmental challenges and the role of the ecosystem

The growing economies and increasing demand on water resources

Economic growth driving demand for the resource

Taking into consideration population growth in Africa

Population growth in Africa

Urbanisation in Africa

Taking into consideration vulnerable and marginalised communities – through a gender lens

Uncertainty is not a reason for not acting.

No/low regret investments are a starting point to increasing water security and building climate resilience

Framework is key to the identification and prioritisation of no/low regret investments

Building on IWRM investments can be for:

•Infrastructure (both natural and engineered approaches)

•Ensuring reliable and timely information to support decision-making

•Building institutional capacity to manage water security in Africa

WP 3: No/low regret investments in water security and climate resilience

GWP w will work with development banks such as AfDB, DBSA, BOAD, World Bank to :

•Increase knowledge sharing on project preparations facilities•Identifying bottlenecks in project preparation•Further develop viable projects for project preparation

WP 3: Project Preparation and Financing

In East Africa:

Bugasera (Burundi and Rwanda) Project focusing on taking forward transboundary water management commitments in a shared catchment at the community level.

WP 5: Innovative Demonstration Projects – increasing water security and building climate resilience

In Central Africa:

In the Congo Basin and Lake Chad- building on existing initiatives related to climate change adaptation mechanisms at community level such as agro-forestry and rain water harvesting.

WP 5: Innovative Demonstration Project – increasing water security and building climate resilience

Working with the CDKN and CapNet to ensure capacity is built to identify, prioritise, appraise and integrate investments into development planning processes.

WP 6: Capacity Development

Collaboration with UNFCCC led to a joint publication

WP 7: Knowledge management and awareness

Advocacy in UNFCCC COP meetings

• With support from CDKN - knowledge products aimed at increasing the knowledge on water security and climate resilience have been

developed.

WP 7: Knowledge management and awareness

At least 33 Ministers and their representatives witnessed the

launch

WP 8: Partnership and Sustainablity

• Funding activities for the programme on-going

• Implementation teams and partnerships being set up at all levels

• Linkages and collaboration at all levels will be built continuously

GWP Regions outside Africa developing similar WACDEP initiatives

GWP- C working

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In Central America

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In Asia and Central Eastern

Europe similar initiatives are

on-going

Global level working with WMO on Drought and Flood Management

Visit www.gwp.org/wacdep