Current work includes developing a new generation of resilience indicators, leading the development and implementation of a national climate planning tool, working with businesses to incorporate resilience within operations, heading a program to engage macroeconomic planners and central bankers to blend resilience with traditional economic evaluation approaches, and contributing to large-scale technical climate risk assessments. The Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) and Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) are hosting an in-person live event on this important topic: Generating and sharing knowledge - Facilitating knowledge-sharing and understanding of issues related to AWM;

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The Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP) has four pillars or focus areas for agricultural improvement and investment [ ...]Article, 28 September 2022 // Ministerio de Ambiente de Panamá Panamá cuenta con una nueva herramienta centrada en la protección del recurso hídrico Article, 11 January 2023 // Devex Opinion: Water insights for climate resilience from the global south Join us Tuesday 17 October at 12:00 CET for a webinar, on coastal resilience building. The webinar will showcase coastal adaptation projects to frame how future-oriented planning and risk reduction can support communities and economic resilience.

Water Tracker for National Climate Planning

Water needs a clear, shining voice in the global #climatepolicy space. As of today, that voice is Ingrid Timboe, seconded from Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) as the Water Advisor for the #COP28 Presidency for #cop28UAE. AGWA's Policy Director Seconded to COP28 Presidency Team — Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA)For this Research Topic, we seek papers that describe deep resilience as an operational and/or policy framework, how deep resilience projects can be evaluated for financing and success, examples of managing with rather than against change and uncertainty, and how technical decision makers can transition from narrow problem definition to more integrative and coherent solutions. Drivers such as climate change and many forms of recent social, political, and economic change reveal that overly narrow interventions can ignore interactions with other social-ecological systems, depend on inappropriately precise and fixed data, or promote largely incremental adjustments that may not encompass the true scale of impacts and challenges. Promoting robustness to extreme flooding and extreme droughts may simply be unfeasible, while the deferral for additional clarity and certainty about the future through flexibility may not always match the needs of decision makers for action. Deep resilience has been used to describe a new set of approaches that explicitly link problems as divergent as flood and drought prevention for the same location and sharing critical resources between energy, agriculture, and cities. By focusing on the need for resilient interactions between projects, proposed solutions may become more cohesive and coherent to promote cross-sectoral and systemic resilience. When decision makers assume that deep uncertainty is a defining quality of these problems, proposed solutions can make uncertainty-tolerant use of ecosystems and nature-based solutions (NbS), governance systems, and freshwater resources. I am so proud to work with Ingrid. She is a colleague who became a friend, who became a colleague as well again. I will always carry her water.

The Water Tracker: Find the Water to Build Resilience!

Policy, 19 May 2021 // New Initiatives Launched to Bring Water to the Heart of Climate Action: Takeaways from the Petersberg Climate Dialogue Satellite Event on Water We are organizing a webinar on an “Introduction to Water Resilience as an Economic Concept” to go along with launching the updated report "Enabling Resilient Economies: Catalyzing Prosperity and Structural Transformation Through Water Resilience." Water resilience represents a level of awareness that is higher than has been described by more than a handful of extant NDCs. Join us at #CairoWaterWeek! We’re plumbing the depths of the connections between #water, #climatechange, and #resilience through NDCs, planning, #climatefinance and local #climateaction, with powerful examples excellence from #MENA and #Africa. And with great opening comments from the thought leader Walid Hakiki of #Egypt.Countries around the world are developing climate plans — such as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) — to meet commitments of the Paris Agreement. But, these plans typically neglect the strategic role of water in climate solutions. Video, 30 September 2021 // World Resources Institute The Journey Thus Far and the Road Ahead: Reflections and Progress on the 2019 Call to Action on Adaptation and Resilience Since 2010, AGWA has been working as a global network to develop, crowd-source, and mainstream the emerging practice of climate resilience, especially with regard to water management. Our work includes both technical and policy programs. Through direct engagement with our members, AGWA enables hundreds of institutions and thousands of individuals globally to align their vision, co-construct tools to enable resilience, and intertwine emerging technical knowledge, finance instruments, and policy processes into synthetic, integrated tools and methodologies.