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Building Adaptive Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation in African Transboundary Basins

This study explores climate change adaptation in shared transboundary basins in Africa, emphasizing the need for adaptive capacity building. It discusses actions at operational, advisory, and advocacy levels, involving Regional Economic Communities, River Basin Organizations, and Member States. Critical action items include monitoring, education, funding, disaster management policies, and involving other sectors. Lessons learned highlight the importance of careful scaling, data availability, and planning for an uncertain future. Conclusions stress the gradual integration of climate change adaptation into policy, advocacy, and funding activities in transboundary basins, underscoring the essential role of coordination.

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Building Adaptive Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation in African Transboundary Basins

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  1. Climate Change Adaptation in the context of shared transboundary basins in Africa: building adaptive capacity Jean Boroto and Thomas Petermann on behalf of InWent Capacity Building

  2. Work done in partnership with • ANBO • UNEP • GEF IW- LEARN • UNDP • GWP Eastern Africa • GTZ • NBI • Most River and Lake Basins Commissions or Authorities in Africa • Host countries of the workshops • Research and other institutions • WWC (Africa Programme)

  3. A shared river and lake basins context • In Africa, more than 60 rivers and lakes are shared: • Climate change needs a transboundary response • Need to transcend national context • What can be done?

  4. Orange River Botswana Lesotho Namibia South Africa

  5. Pangani River

  6. Lake Tanganyika

  7. 1960: 26000 km2 2000: 1500 km2

  8. Recent shared lake and river basins workshops

  9. Outcomes • Consensus that urgent action is required, but what exactly? • Considering limited mandate of L& RBOs? • Things that ought to be done anyway?

  10. Two kinds of actions • Operational level… • Advisory and advocacy level • By who?

  11. Three levels of intervention • Regional Economic Communities (SADC, ECOWAS,…) • RBOs (Commissions, Authorities) • Member States

  12. Action by RECs • Appropriate policies, laws and strategies (such as SADC Protocol) – to mainstream CC • Fund (raising) – approach cooperating partners or own resources • Coordination

  13. Action by RBOs Commissions and Authorities have different mandates! • Advisory, advocacy and capacity building (all) • Operational (authorities) such as infrastructure development and operation • Coordination (between member states) and lessons from elsewhere • Fundraising (on behalf of member states)

  14. Member States • Action on the ground (education, capacity building) • Infrastructure and Non infrastructure (WCWDM, RWH, Conjunctive use of Surface and Groundwater) • Disaster Management Policies and Strategies • Involvement of other sectors • Funding (contribution to RBOs’ budget)

  15. Critical action items • Monitoring (out to be done anyway), CC is a further incentive! • Educate, prepare vulnerable communities to understand CC (not a punishment from the gods from God) • Funding, including research(ers)

  16. Lessons • Do not rush into up scaling model results: • Extrapolate findings, adapt and adopt… (a challenge!) • Often baseline data is NOT available! • Use best wisdom: plan for the future even if it can’t be predicted.

  17. Conclusions • Though CCA is not the top priority in the programmes of L&RBOs in Africa, its gradual mainstreaming into policy, advocacy, capacity building, financing and other activities (data, infrastructure or other), is today’s best response. • Coordination is critical!

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