1. Regional and Transboundary
cooperation
Work Package 1 –
Water and Climate Programme
28 August 2013, Regional Days
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2. Work Package 1-Overview
• Climate change impacts cut across political boundaries
• Climate impacts already forcing large communities to
migrate to areas with less severe impacts
• Adaptation efforts should go beyond national boundaries
• National level adaptation efforts such as NAPs should
recognise transboundary nature of climate impacts
• Cooperation with regional economic communities,
regional climate change centres, transboundary river
basins organisations and others required
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3. Overall work package objective
 Support Regional Economic Communities, River
Basin Organisations (RBOs) and governments to
advance regional cooperation in climate change
adaptation in transboundary waters and shared
aquifers for regional and economic development
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4. Specific Objectives
 Support RECs, RBOs, etc to define regional
investment options that enhance water security and
climate resilient
 Enhance collaboration among RECs, RBOs, regional
climate change centres and others on regional
adaptation response measures
 Support efforts on regional integration, collaboration in
disaster risk reduction, hydrological services provision
and use of regional climate information
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5. Key Output/s
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Support packages by GWP to Regional Organisations in
developing agreements/commitments /investment options
and tools that integrate water security and climate
resilience

6. Examples on the types of activities
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• Regional/basin wide assessment and adaptation responses- studies to
enhance understanding of current and future constraints to regional / basin
water security and development
 Deliverable-Report on regional/basin wide climate risks, hotspot
analysis, vulnerability assessments of climate impacts on water
resources and current/future socio-economic development
• Hydro-climatic Information-Analysis of hydro-climatic information and
climate information from regional climate centres and interpret information
to aid investments decision making on water security
 Deliverable-Regional/Basin Hydro-climatic information report

7. Examples on the types of activities
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• Basin Investment Decision Making: Support RBOs and RECs to
elaborate investment options and tools for enhancing Basin Water Security
and Climate Resilience
 Regional/ basin investment options and tools for enhancing water
security and climate resilience
• Integration of Investments: Support RBOs and RECs to incorporate Basin
and regional water security and climate resilience investments into regional,
basin and national development programmes.
 Report on how regional/Basin water security and climate resilience
investments have been integrated into development programmes

8. Work Package 1: Indicator
Number of regional organisations supported in developing
agreements/commitments/investment options and tools
that integrate water security and climate resilience
Results which demonstrate that support activities (the need for which is
acknowledged, and even identified, by the recipient) to complete specific
tasks have been carried out at the regional level
Baseline
2012
Milestone 2014 Milestone 2015 Target 2016
Target 0 1 3 6
Observed

9. • GWP Med
• GWP Southern Africa
• GWP Caribean
Regional Case studies