Global Water Partnership (GWP)

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The Global Water Partnership (GWP) is an international non-profit network organisation created in 1996. With a diverse partnership of more than 3000 organizations from 178 countries, including governments, the private sector, civil society groups, the GWP network is made up of 13 Regional Water Partnerships and 85 Country Water Partnerships (CWPs), which are neutral platforms for dialogue on development policies from the bottom to the top.

Global Water Partnership Central Africa (GWP-CAf), the GWP Regional Water Partnership in Central Africa (https://www.gwp.org/en/GWP-Central-Africa/) was formally established in 2008. Its vision is for a "Central Africa where water security is guaranteed", and its mission is to "support sustainable development through the promotion and implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in Central Africa".

The guiding principles for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) were adopted by experts from all over the world in Dublin in January 1992, and approved by heads of states and governments at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. The third of these four guiding principles states that: “Women play a central part in the provision, management, and safeguarding of water”. World leaders, governments and water professionals thus acknowledged that gender equity is inextricably bound up with sustainable water resources management and sustainable development in general.

With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, gender equality is placed at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through SDG 5: “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”. GWP has been advancing gender issues based on its gender strategy and more recently its “Gender Action Piece” through which it continues to play a crucial role in promoting gender issues in water resources management by supporting water sector stakeholders in their efforts to ensure equity through sustainable management and development of water resources. As part of implementation of its gender strategy and “Gender Action Piece”, GWP developed the Gender Equality in Water Security and Climate Resilient Development Programme (WACDEP-G) in Africa which has been approved for funding by the Austria Development Agency. The WACDEP-G will be implemented across the five GWP Regional Offices in Africa.

Compétences / Savoir-faire / Missions :

WACDEP-G

GWP and partners have been implementing an African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) Program ”Water Climate and Development Program (WACDEP)” in Africa since 2011 in order to realize the climate change related commitments expressed by African Heads of State and Government in the 2008 Sharm el-Sheikh Declaration on water and sanitation.

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. The overall objective is to support countries integrate water security and climate resilience in development planning and decision-making processes, through enhanced technical and institutional capacity and predictable financing and investments in water security and climate change adaptation.

The First Phase (2011-2015) of the Program covered eight countries (Cameroon, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Burundi, Rwanda and Tunisia), and five transboundary basins (Volta, Lake Chad, Lake Victoria-Kagera, Limpopo Basins and the North Western Sahara Aquifer System). The Second Phase (2016-2019), in addition to building on the lessons learnt from phase I, tried to respond to emerging issues and priorities for African such as the Paris Agreement on climate change and the 2030 SDGs. The program in phase II covered additional ten countries (Benin, Mali, Senegal, Sao Tome and Principe, Central Africa Republic, Kenya, Uganda, Mauritania Tanzania and Zambia) but kept the same transboundary basins.

Phase II of program implementation focused in supporting countries in developing and/or implementing NDCs, including NAPs, and supporting countries and regional organizations in preparing investment plans, project concepts or proposals that will facilitate investment for water security and climate resilience in Africa.  Though gender mainstreaming was considered in the WACDEP, the issues around gender inequalities and the implication for resilience building was not considered.

Recognizing the significance of gender inequality in water security and climate resilience in Africa, WACDEP is now shifting towards gender transformative approaches.

The new phase of the program (2020-2025), Water, Climate, Development and Gender Equality (WACDEP-G), will be implemented in 18 countries and 5 transboundary basins with the financial support from the Austrian Development Cooperation (ADA) within the framework of the African Water Investment Program (AIP). The overall objective of WACDEP-G is to transform gender inequalities at scale by promoting gender-transformative planning, decision-making and institutional development for climate resilient water investments in Africa. The ultimate goal is to achieve progress in gender equality by shaping investments in climate-resilient water security for 3.6 million people over 6 years, involving projects and programs amounting to about $1 billion investments from government and private sources. 

The Program is structured around three main components:

1. Gender-transformative change for implementation of climate-resilient water investments
2. Mobilising partnerships and building motivation, capabilities and opportunities for transforming structurally embedded unequal power relations
3. Agile learning from implementation of local pilots

Implementation of WACDEP-G (first phase:2020-2021) will start from 1st April 2020 in 5 countries and 5 transboundary basins. For the Central African region, the program will be implemented in Cameroon and in the Lake Chad Basin. 

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