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Transboundary Cooperation

World Bank and UNECE (March 22, 2024)

Whenever stakeholders come together to manage shared lakes, aquifers, and rivers, they forge trust, collaborative frameworks, and mutual benefits beyond these that contribute to peace and stability.

CIWA (March 21, 2024)

In the conflict-prone borderlands of Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and South Sudan, The Horn of Africa Groundwater for Resilience Project is an ambitious operation to increase information on aquifers and the countries¡¯ capacity to manage them and to develop water service delivery infrastructure to enhance drought resilience of vulnerable populations.

CIWA (March 3, 2024)

Since 2020, CIWA has accelerated its own efforts to foster gender equality within the transboundary water context in sub-Saharan Africa. Discover how the program emerged as a pioneering leader.

CIWA (February 26, 2024)

Abibata worked on a CIWA project in 2021 to uncover the challenges of access to groundwater for irrigation by farmers in the Sahel, focusing on the constraints that women in Burkina Faso face when deploying groundwater irrigation. Read her story.

CIWA (February 5, 2024)

Thanks to work on transboundary aquifers, like the study led by Matlhogonolo Mmese, a better understanding of regional groundwater is possible. Read her story.

Transboundary Forum

World Bank and OMVS (July 17, 2023)

River Basin Organizations (RBOs) are key pillars of international and regional water resources governance, providing countries with a platform for exchanging information and a vehicle to achieve water security but also to materialize broader development objectives.

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World Bank (July 10, 2023)

ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº is taking determined steps to become more nimble and innovative ¨C including in how it helps countries manage their mutual reliance on shared waters. This week, we are hosting an international workshop in Washington, D.C., to listen, learn, and rethink with how to help our client countries cooperate over their transboundary waters.