Joint GWP/DMCSEE training: Global WACDEP overview by Natalia Alexeeva

1. Global Water, Climate and Development Programme (WACDEP) - Overview
Global Water Partnership, Stockholm
Budapest, 2 October 2014

2. Climate change will impact water security
Changes in the water cycle are one of the main ways in which the impacts of climate change will be felt – this includes increasing variability, increasing extremes (droughts, floods), and higher ambient temperatures (including warmer water temperatures).
Resilience to Climate Change is a necessity
GWP is responding to the climate change challenge through the Global Water, Climate and Development Programme (WACDEP)
The Programme is linking water, climate and economic development agendas, strengthening coordination frameworks, and enhancing coherence, finance and institutional capacity
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Water security and climate change

3. Global Water, Climate and Development Programme
The goal 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
The overall objective is to support integration of water security and climate resilience in development planning and decision making processes

4. WACDEP Global Portfolio
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5. WACDEP Global Expected Outcomes
•Integrate water, adaptation into development plans, budgets and Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks
•Enhance institutional, planning capacities
•No/low regrets investment and financing strategies
•Bankable/fundable projects
•Leverage investments
•Institutional developement

6. UNFCCC and National Adaptation Planning
National Adaptation Plan Global Support Programme
UNFCCC
National Adaptation Plans
Nairobi Work Programme
Adaptation Committee
Loss and Damage

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Enhancing climate resilience in Asia + China (15 countries)
Supporting Peru to adapt in Santa Eulalia basin
Water and climate resilience in Central America (6 countries)
Support for enhanced climate resilience in the Caribbean water sector
(4 countries)
Improving drought resilience in central and eastern Europe (9 countries)
Support to drought/ flood management with WMO
Support to African Union and Water ministers council to implement heads of state decisions on water and climate including droughts in horn of Africa and Sahel
(25 countries)
Promoting coherence on adapation world wide: developing institutional capacity,
access to finance, generating knowldge and tools for policy coherence, delivering to
unlock investments in water and climate resilient development

8. 3 strategic goals and 8 work packages
Goal 1 – Catalyse change in policies and practice
WP 1: Regional and transboundary cooperation
WP 2: National development and sector plans
WP 3: No/low regret investments
WP 4: Project preparation and financing
WP 5: Demonstration projects
Goal 2 – Generate and communicate knowlegde
WP 6: Capacity building
WP 7: Knowledge awareness
Goal 3 – Strengthen partnerships
WP 8: Partnerships and sustainability

9. WP1: Support to improve Kagera Basin Cooperation through the LVBC – Kagera Basin
WP2: Supporting the National Adaptation Planning Process – Burkina Faso
WP6: Capacity Development Platform – Pan African
WP7: Development of a Sourcebook for the Caribbean water sector – Achieving development resilient to climate change
WP5: Policy oriented study on remote sensing agricultural drought monitoring methods – Hungary, Romania, Slovakia
WP4: Work with climate change National Focal Points to develop proposals targeting for climate funding – Pakistan
WP3: Develop a report on available low- cost green technologies for flood control and drought mitigation – Philippines
WP8: Training in project cycle management including M&E and proposal design – Peru

10. Some results so far
•40 publications, knowledge products and tools for water security & climate resilience developed and disseminated
•30 government institutions and other stakeholders in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe were capacitated to integrate water security and climate change in the design and implementation of policies, plans and projects
•34 national organisations were supported in developing legal frameworks/policies/strategies, sectoral and development plans integrating water security and climate resilience
•Nine regional organisations were supported in developing agreements, commitments and investment options and tools that integrate water security and climate resilience
•Three organisations were supported in the development of investment strategies supporting policies and plans which integrate water security for climate resilience