Presentation made by Andrew Takawira, WACDEP Senior Programme Officer, GWP Consulting Partners Meeting, 26. August 2012, Stockholm, Sweden

1. Implementing the Water, Climate and
Development Programme in Africa
Global Water Partnership Consulting Meeting
25 August 2012
Stockholm, Sweden

2. BACKGROUND

3. 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)

4. 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

5. CONSTANT CONSULTATIONS WITH AMCOW TAC MEMBERS

6. 9 Water Ministers attended the WACDEP Launch
during 2011 Stockholm World Water Week

7. WACDEP builds on
the lessons learnt in
IWRM Planning
carried out from
2004 - 2009

8. • WACDEP
contributes to the
implementation of
the GWP
Strategy.
• Within the GWP
Global Climate
Change
Operational

9. 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.

10. This means…linking the water, climate and
economic development agendas and
strengthening coordination frameworks
Climate community
Developement community Water community
(UNFCC COP people)
....Working across silos, bridging divides....

11. Overall objective of WACDEP
To support integration of water
security and climate resilience in
development planning and decision
making processes

12. What will WACDEP deliver?
WHAT WILL WACDEP DELIVER?

13. 4 WACDEP COMPONENTS
1. No/low Regret investments in Regional and National
development
With 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

14. WATER CLIMATE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME -AFRICA
Water security and climate resilience
integrated in Africa's growth and
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Integration, investments in Climate Enabling activities
resilient growth and development

15. What will WACDEP deliver?
OVERVIEW OF THE ACTIVITES IN
WACDEP and PROGRESS

16. WP 1: Regional and Transboundary Cooperation
– 5 transboundary basins
North West Sahara Aquifer
(SASS)
Volta Basin
Lake Chad Basin
Kagera Basin
Limpopo Basin

17. Example of an intervention at the transboundary level
– Supporting the VBA to integrate water security
and climate resilience
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

18. Example at the transboundary level – integrating
no/low regret investments into the Limpopo IWRM Plan
Identification and
prioritisation of
no/low regret
investments from
existing plans and
also identifying
new ones for
integration into the
Limpopo IWRM
Plan

19. WP 2: National development and sector plans
Piloted in 8 countries so
far:
•Ghana
•Burkina Faso
•Cameroon
•Tunisia
•Burundi
•Rwanda
•Mozambique
•Zimbabwe

20. mple of national level interventions – increasing water secu
and building climate resilience in Tunisia
• Climate Risk and
Vulnerability Water
Resources Mapping
• Tunisian Drought
Management Guide will
be reviewed and
updated to take into
account climate change
impacts

21. 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)

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challenges
and the role
of the
ecosystem

23. Economic growth driving demand for the resource
The growing economies
and increasing demand
on water resources

24. Population growth in Africa
Taking into
consideration
population growth
in Africa

25. Urbanisation
in Africa

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

27. Uncertainty is
not a reason for
not acting.
No/low regret
investments are
a starting point
to increasing
water security
and building
climate
resilience

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

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

30. WP 3: Project Preparation and Financing
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

31. WP 5: Innovative Demonstration Projects –
increasing water security and building climate resilience
In East Africa:
Bugasera (Burundi
and Rwanda)
Project focusing on
taking forward
transboundary
water management
commitments in a
shared catchment at
the community
level .

32. : Innovative Demonstration Project – increasing water sec
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.

33. WP 6: Capacity Development
Working with the CDKN and
CapNet to ensure capacity is built
to identify, prioritise, appraise and
integrate investments into
development planning processes.

34. WP 7: Knowledge management and awareness
Collaboration
with
UNFCCC
led to a joint
publication

35. Advocacy in UNFCCC COP meetings

36. WP 7: Knowledge management and awareness
• With support
from CDKN -
knowledge
products aimed
at increasing the
knowledge on
water security
and climate
resilience have
been developed .

37. At least 33 Ministers and their
representatives witnessed the launch

39. WP 8: Partnership and Sustainablity
•Funding activities for
•Implementation teams
•Linkages and

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41. Visit www.gwp.org/wacdep