Africa´s Grand Challenges:

Water, Energy & Climate Resilience

Dr Ania Grobicki

Presentation to AMCOW Ministers at World Water Week

Stockholm, Sweden

2 September 2014

• 13 Regional Water Partnerships (12 in 2009)

• 86 Country Water Partnerships (70 in 2009)

• Now 3020 Partner organizations in 176 countries (2000 in 2009)

A growing international network since 1996

GWP´s new Patron : Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf President of Liberia

H.E. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Finance Minister, director of Citibank and HSBC, and Assistant SG of UNDP.

Her Excellency is also AMCOW Goodwill Ambassador for Water and Sanitation and Co-Chair of the GWP-OECD Global Dialogue on Water Security and Sustainable Growth, together with Mr Angel Gurria.

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Overall objective of WACDEP :To support integration of water

security and climate resilience in development planning and decision making processes

WACDEP implements commitments in the 2008

Sharm el Sheik Declaration by the AU Heads of State on

Water

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

Triennial WorkPlan

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

North West Sahara Aquifer (Tunisia)

Volta Basin (Burkina Faso and Ghana)Lake Chad Basin

(Cameroon)

Limpopo Basin (Mozambique and Zimbabwe)

Kagera Basin (Burundi and Rwanda)

Piloting WACDEP in Africa – 5 Tranboundary Water Basins and 8 Countries