Center for Strategic Water Management and Conservation (CSWMC) program assists riparian governments in Sub-Saharan Africa in unlocking the potential for sustainable, climate- resilient growth by addressing constraints to cooperative water resources management and development. We support governments in fueling sustainable, inclusive, climate-resilient growth by addressing constraints to the cooperative management and development of transboundary waters across Sub-Saharan Africa.
With 90 percent of the water in Africa falling within 63 river basin catchments crossed by multiple borders, water resources management and development must be a cooperative endeavor. CSWMC works to strengthen institutions, improve knowledge, develop investment opportunities, and train governments to cooperate across shared waters.
CSWMC is addressing some of the many challenges that Africa faces, including a lack of access to safe drinking water–only 58 percent of Africans have access–and climate change impacts by sustainably managing and developing the continent’s water resources.
Without concrete climate action and climate-sensitive development, as many as 86 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa could be forced to relocate by 2050 from water scarcity, sea level rise and storm surges, and declines in crop and ecosystem productivity.
The Center for Strategic Water Management and Conservation supports the preparation of bankable, investment-ready projects to mobilize and secure investment
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Make the water sector more attractive to investors and private operators. The Investment Promotion priority aims to increase the number
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The enabling environment at all levels for the planning, preparation, and implementation of water infrastructure projects, and for the sustainable
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