1. Accelerating irrigation services and preserving ecosystem service values

2. Overview Long-term Strategy Green Growth Framework Areas of Intervention

3. AFDB‘s Strategy 2013-2022 Focus on two core objectives: – Inclusive Growth Based on the recognition that growth has been concentrated in a few sectors adn geographical areas; Recognition that past efforts are not inclusive enough (economic, social, political and spatial); that growth has not led to deep reduction in poverty and inequality – Transition to Green Growth

4. AFDB‘s Strategy 2013-202 Transition to Green Growth – Ensuring that Green Growth is sustainable; – Supporting African RMCs to gradually transition to Green Growth; – Improve Water/Energy/Food Security, and Improve the sustainable use of natural resources and spur innovation, job creation and economic development – Focus on: Building resilience (to shocks): ecological, socio-economic, … Managing natural assets efficiently and sustainably Promoting sustainable infrastructure

5. AFDB‘s Strategy 2013-2022 Operational Priorities – Infrastructure Development – Regional Economic Integration – Private Sector Development – Governance and accountability – Skills and technology Areas of Special Emphasis – Fragile States – Agriculture and Food Security – Gender

6. Green Growth Framework The Bank‘s overall strategy is further defined in the Green Growth Framework and various Sector Guidelines. Key princinples guiding operations: – Maximizing natural resources use efficiency; – Minimizing waste and pollution; – Building resilience of livlihoods and economic sectors

7. Green Growth Framework The Bank recognizes that this will require a progressive shift: – Focus on upstream planning – Cross-Sector approaches – Towards project quality over throughput to harness synergies and reduce trade-offs between social, economic and environmental development

8. Focal Areas for Inclusive Green Growth

9. Areas of Engagement Enabling environment Project Definition Project Feasibility Project Structuring Transaction Support Early-stage Preparation Mid-stage Preparation Implementation Post Evaluation

10. Scale Basin, Watershed, Ecosystem – Allocation, Cumulative Impacts, etc. – Erosion, Sedimentation, Nutrients System-Level – Storage/Diversion/Various sources – Main Distribution – Secondary – Drainage and return flows, environmental flows Farm-level – Fertility, Salinization, etc

11. Focus areas Aquatic Ecosystems – River connectivity (mostly longitudinal); – Location-specific land-water interface (integrated wetland management, etc); – Biodiversity – Mitigate/alternative livelihoods Terrestrial ecosystems – Conserve (replace) – Mitigate

12. Notes arising Define terminology (eco-system services vs. multiple-use services) Scale (system-level)? Prioritize? Critical knowledge gaps. Safeguarding vs. designing for… Re-inventing the wheel (take forward lessons learned across regions)