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
WACDEP Capacity Development Programme

2.  WACDEP – Africa and the Capacity Development
Programme
 Overall objective and its targeted audience
 Implementation process
 Implementation levels and key activities
 Sustainability of GWP with the WACDEP CDP
Outlines

3. WATER CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMME IN AFRICA
BACGROUND

4.  2007: GWP in Africa signed a MoU with
AMCOW
 2008: The Sharm el Sheik Declaration
adopted by AU Heads of States and
Governments
 2009: GWP and AMCOW meeting in
Abidjan- Development of WACDEP
 2010: GWP requested by AMCOW
EXCO to operationalise WACDEP
WACDEP-Africa

5.  AU- AMCOW Water Climate and
Development Programme (WACDEP)
 WACDEP implements commitments related
to Climate Change in the 2008 Sharm el
Sheik Declaration by the AU Heads of
States
 WACDEP is central to the delivery of
climate related objectives in the AMCOW
Triennial WorkPlan
WACDEP-Africa

6. Goal of WACDEP
 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.
Overall objective of WACDEP
To support integration of water security and climate resilience
in development planning and decision making processes

7. WATER CLIMATE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME -AFRICA
Water security and climate resilience
integrated in Africa's growth and
development
Investments in
regional and National
Development
Transboundary
Cooperaton
National
Developmentand
SectorPlans
No/lowRegrets
Investments
ProjectPreparation
andFinancing
Innovative Green
Solutions
Demonstration
Projects
Knowledge and
Capacity
Development
Capacity
Developement
Knowledgeand
Awareness
Partnerships and
Sustainability
Governanceand
Fundrising
OUTCOMEOUTPUTSACTIVITIES
Enabling activitiesIntegration, investments in Climate
resilient growth and development

8.  8 Pilot Countries
 5 Transboundary
Water Resources
 (23 countries)

9. 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

10. GWP - WACDEP/UNDP-GEF joint Capacity
Development Programme on the
Economics of Adaptation, Water Security
and Climate Resilient Development in
Africa
January 2013 – June 2015

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WACDEP-Africa CDP – Partners

12.  To develop the capacity of Institutions and stakeholders to:
 identify, develop and appraise no/low regrets investments
options;
 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 CCA in a coherent manner into
relevant …… development planning processes and strategies..
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Overall objective

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

14. Establishment of
the Programme
Management
Daft
 Training Manual
 Learning Material
 Facilitator Guide/ M&E
Elaboration of the inception
report
Training Plan
Implementation,
Monitoring and Evaluation
Final evaluation
WACDEP
Reference - Group
Support to the process
Implementation
Jan 13 – June 15
Recruitment of 1
National Training
Coordinator per
Country
Country Assessment
Capacity Development Plan
National Trainers selection
National Trainees selection
Capacity
Development
Team & Experts
Mobilisation
LM Testing
Workshop
Daft
 Training Manual
 Learning Material
 Facilitator Guide/ M&E
Panafrican Training
of Trainers
Final translated
• Training Manual
• Learning Material
• Facilitator Guide/ M&E

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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

17. National Implementation

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Workshops Some objectives
Workshop1: Setting the scene and
understanding the problem
 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
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 added values for applying
the framework
Workshop 5: Wrap up, lessons
learned
 Wrap up the training programme; review activities,
outcomes, actual learning taking place etc.
A series of 5 National Training Workshops

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Mentoring
process
Comments
In between
WS1-WS2
 Each mentor is assigned a Mentor (One of the three
Trainer)
 Mentor-Mentee agreement signed at most 10 days after
the 1st National Training Workshop
 Mentor support the Mentor to perform tasks related to
WS/ CRD and relevant for his home institution based
on Action Plan and Project Paper
 Mentor support Mentee to share knowledge acquired
with his/ her colleagues
 The status on the implementation of the Participant
Action Plan/ Project Paper is shared with other
Participants during each Workshop
 Follow up meetings with the Mentee-Management
In between
WS3-WS3
In between
WS3-WS4
In between
WS4-WS4
The mentoring process – In between Workshops

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The on-line forum discussion
 https://gwpsweden.sharepoint.com/sites/prog/Project
s/WACDEP/SitePages/Home.aspx
Final translated Training Manual, Learning Material and Facilitator Guide/ M&E are
available
 National on-line forum discussion
 Regional on-line forum discussion
 Panafrican on-line discussion

21. 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
Mentors
WS
mainstreaming
into the Country
NAP Document
WACDEP-
WP2

22. 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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Regional and Transboundary level
 A series 4 Regional Training Workshops on the Applications of
Economic Valuation Methods for Assessing the Costs &
Benefits of CCA
 Regional Training Workshops on the NAP process Guidelines in
collaboration with NAP-GSP’s partners
 Regional Training Workshops on the Financing of the
Transboundary Water Ressources Management and Project
Preparation with ICA, SITWA, CapNet, SIWI

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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 with their home institution mandates and
relevant national processes (Mentoring process)

25. Sustainability of GWP with WACDEP-CDP
 40 National Training Coordinators and Trainers are
recruited and contractualised within targeted countries
 Continuous smooth implementation of the programme
 Better alignment with trainees’ duties and their home
institution related to CCA and key national relevant
processes like NAP Processes, GGCCS in Rwanda, NBSAP
in Cameroon, NCCRS in Zimbabwe……..
 Implementation of the M&E system put in place and
documentation of lessons learnt
 Institution development focusing on GWP Team Managers who
can take forward the process at least as NTC

26. Sustainability of GWP with WACDEP-CDP
 Enhancing collaboration with key partners like UNDP-GEF to
expand the targeted countries
 Marketing of the initiative at global regional and county level for
using/ adapting of the material and the approach through on-
going and upcoming initiatives
 Adapting/ using material and approach for other thematic
programmes of GWP: Drought, Urbanisation, Delta, Flood….
 Enhancing collaboration with Universities and existing/
upcoming academic programmes/ Training centers ……

27. www.gwp.org/wacdep