Transcript Climate change adaptation in the context of shared transboundary

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
Work done in partnership with
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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)
A shared river and lake basins
context
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In Africa, more than 60 rivers and
lakes are shared:
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Climate change needs a
transboundary response
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Need to transcend national context
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What can be done?
Orange River
Botswana
Lesotho
Namibia
South Africa
Pangani River
Lake Tanganyika
1960: 26000 km2
2000: 1500 km2
Recent shared lake and river
basins workshops
Where
Dates
Entebbe,
Uganda
26-29 Aug. 2008 Africa continent
Abuja, Nigeria
Pretoria,
South Africa
Target
2-3 Dec. 2008
West and Central
Africa
3-5 March 2009
Eastern and
Southern Africa
Outcomes
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Consensus that urgent
action is required, but what
exactly?
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of L& RBOs?
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limited mandate
that ought to be done
anyway?
Two kinds of actions
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Operational level…
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Advisory and advocacy level
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By who?
Three levels of intervention
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Regional Economic Communities
(SADC, ECOWAS,…)
RBOs (Commissions,
Authorities)
Member States
Action by RECs
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Appropriate policies, laws and
strategies (such as SADC
Protocol) – to mainstream CC
Fund (raising) – approach
cooperating partners or own
resources
Coordination
Action by RBOs
Commissions and Authorities have
different mandates!
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Advisory, advocacy and capacity
building (all)
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Operational (authorities) such as
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Coordination (between member states)
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Fundraising (on behalf of member states)
infrastructure development and operation
and lessons from elsewhere
Member States
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Action on the ground (education, capacity
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Infrastructure and Non infrastructure
(WCWDM, RWH, Conjunctive use of Surface and
building)
Groundwater)
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Disaster Management Policies and
Strategies
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Involvement of other sectors
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Funding (contribution to RBOs’ budget)
Critical action items
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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)
Lessons
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Do not rush into up scaling model
results:
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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.
Conclusions
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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!