| Agreements hold water: Reasons to scale up transboundary cooperation—now! 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. |
| Digging deep: Groundwater in the Horn of Africa’s fragile borderlands 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. |
| Glass half full: An equal share for women in decisions on 60% of the world’s freshwater 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. |
| Sahel region: Access to water for women-led farming is a win for communities 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. |
| Matlhogonolo Mmese: An aspiring hydrogeologist in Botswana 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. |
| River basin organizations: Making a difference for livelihoods, development and peace 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. |
| Water knows no borders: Transboundary cooperation is key to water security and avoiding conflict World Bank (July 10, 2023) | The World Bank is taking determined steps to become more nimble and innovative – 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. |
