1. 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

2. Work done in partnership with  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)

3. A shared river and lake basins context  In Africa, more than 60 rivers and lakes are shared: Climate change needs a transboundary response Need to transcend national context What can be done?

4. Orange River Botswana Lesotho Namibia South Africa

5. Pangani River

6. Lake Tanganyika

7. 1960: 26000 km 2 2000: 1500 km 2

8. Recent shared lake and river basins workshops WhereDatesTarget Entebbe, Uganda 26-29 Aug. 2008 Africa continent Abuja, Nigeria 2-3 Dec. 2008 West and Central Africa Pretoria, South Africa 3-5 March 2009 Eastern and Southern Africa

9. Outcomes  Consensus that urgent action is required, but what exactly? Considering limited mandate of L& RBOs? Things that ought to be done anyway?

10. Two kinds of actions  Operational level…  Advisory and advocacy level  By who?

11. Three levels of intervention  Regional Economic Communities (SADC, ECOWAS,…)  RBOs (Commissions, Authorities)  Member States

12. Action by RECs  Appropriate policies, laws and strategies (such as SADC Protocol) – to mainstream CC  Fund (raising) – approach cooperating partners or own resources  Coordination

13. Action by RBOs Commissions and Authorities have different mandates! Advisory, advocacy and capacity building (all) Operational (authorities) such as infrastructure development and operation Coordination (between member states) and lessons from elsewhere Fundraising (on behalf of member states)

14. Member States  Action on the ground ( education, capacity building)  Infrastructure and Non infrastructure ( WCWDM, RWH, Conjunctive use of Surface and Groundwater)  Disaster Management Policies and Strategies  Involvement of other sectors  Funding (contribution to RBOs’ budget)

15. Critical action items  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)

16. Lessons  Do not rush into up scaling model results: 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.

17. Conclusions  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!