AN INITIATIVE OF THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF BASIN ORGANIZATIONS (INBO),
SECRETARIAT OF THE GLOBAL ALLIANCES FOR WATER AND CLIMATE (GAWC)!
More frequent and intense floods and droughts, reduced river flows, degradation of aquatic ecosystems, rising sea levels resulting in salinization of coastal groundwater: water is one of the first victims of climate change.
To meet the water and climate challenges, more ambitious and innovative projects are needed.
This is a necessity everywhere in the world, but particularly in Africa, one of the areas most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
At the end of the 1st edition of the "One Planet Summit" (12 December 2017 in Paris), the President of the French Republic made a commitment to ensure the development of "100 Water and Climate projects for Africa" within 5 years.
International institutions mobilized
International institutions support the initiative. As co-organizers of the "One Planet Summits" alongside the Presidency of the French Republic, the World Bank and the United Nations General Secretariat contribute to its follow-up and provide support.
In particular, the World Bank has integrated into the initiative its climate change resilience project in the transboundary Niger River basin. Like the commitments of the French Development Agency (AFD) and the French Global Environment Facility (FFEM), all development banks (bilateral and multilateral) and specialized climate finance funds (Green Climate Fund, Adaptation Fund, etc.) have a role to play in supporting the initiative. They can contribute to the identification of projects, finance their incubation or finance their implementation.
INBO: support for drawing up applications and the search for financing
The management of the initiative was entrusted to INBO, Secretariat of the World Alliances for Water and Climate (GAfWaC), within the framework of the Incubation Platform that it has been leading since the United Nations Climate Conference of Marrakech (COP22, November 2016).
In this respect, INBO seeks and selects the relevant project proposals, co-establishes and secures the budget required for the incubation. The latter must be modest compared to the implementation budget, with a leverage effect of at least 1 to 100; on average, 60,000 euros of incubation for an implementation of 1 to 10 million euros). INBO provides technical support to the project leaders to meet the requirements and procedures of the climate finance donors.
Incubation process
The three main themes of the expected projects :
THE FRENCH WATER AGENCIES ARE COMMITTED !
You too, join the initiative!
The 6 French water agencies are public State institutions that provide technical and financial support for the design and implementation of policies promoting integrated water resource management (IWRM), in a context of adaptation to climate change, in France and worldwide.
They promote balanced and sustainable management of water resources and aquatic environments, drinking water supply, flood regulation and the sustainable development of economic activities on the scale of large river basins.
The water agencies are members of the International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO) and participate in the organization and follow-up of many international cooperation activities on all continents.
In accordance with this commitment, the water agencies have been mobilized since the launching of the Initiative "100 Water and Climate Projects for Africa", within the One Planet Summit organized on 12 December 2017 in Paris by the President of the French Republic, the President of the World Bank and the Secretary General of the United Nations.
The water agencies are committed to contributing over 5 years to the incubation or implementation of "20 Water & Climate projects", particularly in the Sahel, an arid and fragile region where the challenges of sustainable water management are crucial, in a context of particularly unfavourable climate change.
The French water agencies involved in Water and Climate Projects at the River Basin Level
The French water agencies regularly provide technical and financial support for the implementation of institutional cooperation projects. These consist in strengthening the legal and institutional frameworks of the organizations in charge of water resource management at the basin scale and in contributing to the improvement of governance and techniques for carrying out this mandate (monitoring and inventory of water resources, planning and implementation of action programmes, participatory management involving the users of the resource, etc.).
Within the framework of these projects, the French water agencies and their operators were able to identify in each basin of intervention the vulnerabilities to climate change and the measures that could be relevant to integrate for the incubation of water & climate projects in these territories (adaptation plan, Nature-based solutions, water saving programme, etc.).
The "20 Water & Climate projects" of the French water agencies are the result of this identification process.
The institutional cooperation actions of the French water agencies thus allow not only to improve integrated water resource management at basin level, but also to establish diagnoses and proposals for projects to fight against climate change!
A vast network of water stakeholders at the service of this initiative
As INBO Secretariat, IOWater coordinates the initiative of the 100 water & climate projects for Africa. Many partners joined the initiative, including the World Bank, the French Ministry of Economy and Finance, UNESCO, the French Water Partnership, the French Development Agency, the Interdepartmental Syndicate for Sanitation of the Parisian Agglomeration or the French Fund for Global Environment.
As part of their commitment to "20 Water & Climate projects", the French water agencies are also mobilising their large French and international network of technical operators and financial partners (Compagnie d'Aménagement des Coteaux de Gascogne, Agrisud, International research and development centre, Beninese NGO, Research and Expertise Centre for Local Development, etc.).
LES PROJETS EN COURS FINANCES PAR LES AGENCES DE L’EAU
Business-led achievements
Expertise and innovative solutions provided by international companies
In terms of adaptation and to climate change mitigation, new concrete solutions adapted to different contexts are emerging through the involvement and expertise of French companies in close collaboration with their African partners in the field. Through export support funds, the French government helps these companies to promote their methodologies and technologies and thus contribute to the fight against climate change in the countries most affected by extreme phenomena such as those on the African continent.
From incubation to implementation, the establishment of a France-Africa ecosystem of actors
Among the "100 water and climate projects in Africa", several projects are led by French companies that have developed an innovative system in response to the needs of urban and rural populations in terms of adaptation and climate change mitigation: Solar and connected hybrid pumps in isolated areas, smart cameras coupled with modelling, spatial altimetry applied to the monitoring of water masses, desalination plants powered exclusively by solar energy, water treatment without the use of chemicals... The objectives are to secure the supply of drinking water, to reduce and prevent the risks of flooding.
As the involvement of local stakeholders is essential to the success of these projects and to foster local appropriation of the infrastructure and technologies in order to make them sustainable, these French companies have formed partnerships with local authorities and public institutions, companies and NGOs in order to incubate their projects and then implement them. To carry out their project, they are supported by the French government via Fonds d’étude et d’aide au secteur privé (FASEP), which enables the financing of feasibility studies or mature innovative demonstrators, or via a un Prêt du Trésor , between the French government and a foreign government.
These financial tools are managed by the Treasury Directorate of the Ministry of the Economy and Finance.
Discover some realisations
Ongoing projects
In spite of often defeatist environmental discourse, solutions for adapting to climate change, enabling the implementation of quality and sustainable integrated water resource management projects do exist!
The 100 Water and Climate Projects for Africa initiative aims to bring together project leaders, technical experts and donors to meet and collaborate.
Discover the projects already implemented!
- Project financed by :
Project financed by :Seine-Normandy Water Agency
Support to restore the Hydro-Sedimentary Balance of the Somone Lagoon in a context of Climate ChangeProject financed by :Seine-Normandy Water Agency
Project financed by :Rhône Méditerranée Corse Water Agency
Project financed by :Seine-Normandie Water Agency
Project financed by :Adour-Garonne Water Agency
Project financed by :Adour-Garonne Water Agency
Project financed by :Artois-Picardie Water Agency
Project financed by :Rhône Méditerranée Corse Water Agency
Project financed by :Loire-Bretagne Water Agency
Rhône-Méditerranée-Corse Water Agency
Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region
Project financed by :Loire-Bretagne Water Agency
Project financed by :Rhone-Mediterranean-Corsica Water Agency
Project financed by :Rhone-Mediterranean-Corsica Water Agency
Project financed by : Rhin-Meuse Water Agency
Many water and environmental stakeholders have ideas on how to respond to the challenges our societies face in adapting to climate change.
The 100 Projects for Africa Initiative therefore brings together project leaders, technical experts and donors to conceptualize and develop realistic, relevant and sustainable projects.
Stages of the incubation process
The three main themes of the expected projects :
Do you have a project proposal ?
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Would you like to join the Collective Initiative 100 Water and Climate Projects for Africa by financing all or part of a project?
We will give you details of the projects that can be financed and you can let us know your interest:
- finance the emergence of a project through an incubation process, finance,
- the implementation of a project that has already been incubated
- or finance the entire life cycle of a project, from incubation to implementation
Contact us at the following address: secretariat@inbo-news.org