1. GWP Strategy Towards 2020: A Water Secure World
Addressing thematic issues, 23rd June 2014
GWP Regional Days Meeting
23-26 June 2014 - Hyatt Regency Hotel Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
Armand HOUANYE
WACDEP Capacity Development
Programme Manager
Session 2: on GWP Goal 2, “Generate and
communicate knowledge”
Institutional development (WACDEP Africa CD)

2. AU/ AMCOW Framework for Climate Resilient growth
and development
Framework is key to the identification and prioritisation of
no/low regret investments and integrate these into
development planning processes

3. WACDEP Institutional Capacity Development
Programme
January 2013 – June 2015

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WACDEP-Africa institutional development – Partners

5.  To develop the capacity of Institutions and stakeholders to:
 identify, develop and appraise no/low regrets investments options and;
 integrate these into national planning processes, development plans
by understanding and knowing how to apply the framework
 To contributes to NAPs process- objectives – UNDP-GEF
 To reduce vulnerability to the impacts of climate change
 by building adaptive capacity and resilience;
 To facilitate the integration of climate change adaptation, in a coherent manner
 into relevant new and existing policies, programmes and activities
 in particular development planning processes and strategies, within all relevant
sectors and at different levels, as appropriate
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Overall objective

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Overall objective
Primary audience (government
planners)
Secondary audience
across line ministries such as  Regional Economic Communities
• Economic planning  River Basin Organisations
• Finance  Researchers and Practitioners – key
planning agencies and institutions
• Water Resources  GWP regional and national teams
• Agriculture  UNDP LDCF project coordinators
• Environment  NGO and others
• Energy,
• Health and Infrastructures.

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Process- main steps Process - key outputs
Establishment of the
Programme Management
 NIRAS- Team Leader and Experts
 GWPO, WACDEP Africa CU and Reference Group supported by
WACDEP Reference Group
Elaboration of the
inception report
 Overall view of the process – roles and responsibilities of
involved actors
Elaboration of the Training
Plan
 Structure of trainings and mentoring process
Mobilization CDTeam  5 WACDEP Regional Managers
 8 WACDEP Country Managers
 8 National Training Coordinators
 24 Trainers in three domains
Country assessment and
plans
 8 Detailed assessment of CD needs reports and plans for 8
targeted countries
 Selection of Participants Planners and Strategic Decision Makers
Production and Access to
LM for a series of 5 national
training workshops and
mentoring process
 Training Manual available in French, English and Portuguese
 Learning Material
 Facilitator Guide
 Development of the WACDEP Capacity Development Platform:
https://gwpsweden.sharepoint.com/sites/prog/Projects/WACDE
P/SitePages/Home.aspx

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Workshops Objectives
Workshop1: Setting the scene
and understanding the
problem
 Provide an initial overview and sensitization of the framework
 Present the case for investing in WS for CRD
 Start exploring some of the methods available to understand
vulnerability and climate impacts
Workshop 2: Identifying and
appraising solutions
 Provide approaches, methods and tools to develop a balanced
portfolio of investment options that enhance WS for CR growth and
development
 to prioritize no/low regret options and to make a case clear
economic for investment
Workshop 3: Delivering
solutions
 Highlight the financing strategies for the portfolio of initial no/low
regret investment identified at workshop 2 and in intervening period
 Explain how these can be integrated into existing development
planning processes
Workshop 4: Monitoring and
moving forwards and
introduction to the framework
 Highlight the importance of an effective M& E framework in assessing
the value that applying the framework has added
Workshop 5: Wrap up, lessons
learned
 Wrap up the training programme; review activities, outcomes, actual
learning taking place etc.

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Learning Material testing: Kigali - September 2013
 NIRAS, CEEPA, CDKN, CapNet, GWPO, WACDEP Africa CU, WACDEP Reference
Group
 Rwanda NTC, Trainers and Experts
 Burundi and Rwanda Managers

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Panafrican Training of Trainers: Addis-November 2013
 80 participants from:
 GWP WACDEP Teams including Regional/ Country Managers, NTCs and Trainers
 UNDP-GEF LDCF, SCCF and AF financed projects
 AU/ AMCOW, CDKN, GWP, CapNet, SIWI and Acclimatise, and NIRAS

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INDICATORS
Number of government institutions/
other stakeholders with demonstrably
enhanced capacity to integrate water
security and climate change in the
design and implementation of policies,
plans & projects
Millestones:
- 24 sectoral Institutions (8
X 3)
- 96 Participants Planners
- 40 Participants Strategic
Decision Makers
- Altogether 136
Participants
Implementation
- 41 secteurs
- 105 Participants
Planners
- 45 Participants
Strategic Decision
Makers
- Altogether 150
Participants
Results which demonstrate that
capacity has been developed among
staff of government institutions/other
stakeholders, i.e. results which show
with a reasonable degree of certainty
that organisations have gained from
(rather than simply been exposed to)
capacity building activities
Number of designed and
implemented Participants
Planners Action Plans aligned
their home institution
mandates and relevant
national processes
(Mentoring process)
On

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INDICATEURS
Countries
Number of
targeted sectors
Number of
targeted
institutions
Number of
Participants
Planners
Number of
Participants
Strategic Decision
Makers
Zimbabwe 5 9 12 5
Cameroon 4 13 14 5
Burundi 6 11 12 5
Mozambique 6 14 18 9
Ghana 5 10 12 5
Burkina Faso 6 8 12 5
Rwanda 5 8 12 6
Tunisia 4 12 13 5
Total 41 85
105 45
150

13. Some focuses of Participants Planners Action Plans
RWANDA
REMA, RNRA,
Agric.
Trainees and
Mentors
GGCCS
implementation
and
FONERWA
WACDEP-
WP2/ WP4
Mozambique
ARASUL
Trainees and
Mentors
Bankable project
proposal
preparation
WACDEP-
WP4
Burkina - Faso
CNEDD
Trainees and
Mentors
WS
mainstreaming
into the Country
NAP Document
WACDEP-
WP2

14. Tunisia
Some focuses of Participants Planners Action Plans
WRM Dpt.
Trainee and
Mentor
Dvpt. of the
National Water
Inf. System
WACDEP-
WP2
Cameroon
DPDD.
Trainees and
Mentors
WS and CR
mainstreaming
into NBSAP with
Investment
Options
WACDEP-
WP2/ WP3
Zimbabwe
WRM& Dvpt.
Trainees and
Mentors
Analysis of CC
implications on
WR planning and
mgt. in Runde
Catchment
WACDEP-
WP2/ WP3

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Level Status Audience Upcoming activities/
Recommendations
Panafrican/
International
 Training of Trainers  NTC, Trainers, Regional and
Country Managers
 Mid-term meeting with at
least NTC and Mangers
Regional  1st Regional Training
Workshops on the
Applications of Economic
Valuation Methods for
Assessing the Costs &
Benefits of CCA
 GWP-WACDEP and UNDP-
GEF supported countries
participants
 2nd Training in the second- half
of 2014 and the remaining in
2015
 Support to countries to
implement their roadmap
 Regional Training Workshop
on the NAP process
Guidelines
 WACDEP Regional/
Country Manager
 GWP-WACDEP and UNDP-
GEF supported countries
participants : 18 countries
– 90 participants
 Better alignment between
regional / national processes
 Establishment of structured
process for GWP team
Managers
Transboundary  Reg. Training on the Finan-
cing of TWRM and PP
Preparation-SITWA
 IWRM and CC-CapNet
 RBO, REC
 Universities
 Country institutions
 Regional Training on the
Financing of TWRM and PP-
SITWA Pretoria, 21st – 24th July
National  1st Workshop in 8 countries
 2nd Workshop in Rwanda-
Zimbabwe
 On-going mentoring process
 105 Participants Planners
 45 Participants Strategic
Decision Makers
 Altogether 150
Participants in 8 targeted
countries
 Trainings and Mentoring
 On-line discussion
 Enhance the M&E system
established with WACDEP/
Managers
 Continuous alignment with
WACDEP – WPs
 Effective expected impacts
 Share experience with other

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