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Managing Groundwater for Drought Resilience in South Asia
World Bank Group - 2020
communities, particularly during times of drought. This study identifies, analyzes, and recommends management interventions that … interventions can strengthen drought resilience within the South Asia region. A broad analytical framework and a series of case …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646884
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Lesotho Water Security and Climate Change Assessment
World Bank Group - 2016
The analysis looks specifically at the need to ensure continued development of water resources within Lesotho and aims to empower stakeholders to act with more confidence by demonstrating that the implementation strategies can provide benefits to water resources management over a broad range of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644382
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High and Dry : Climate Change, Water, and the Economy
World Bank Group - 2016
The impacts of climate change will be channeled primarily through the water cycle, with consequences that could be large and uneven across the globe. Water-related climate risks cascade through food, energy, urban, and environmental systems. Growing populations, rising incomes, and expanding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644739
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Climate Resilience in Africa : The Role of Cooperation around Transboundary Waters
World Bank Group - 2017
Addressing water-challenges is central to building climate resilience. In Africa, all major waters are transboundary making cooperation on international waters critically important to building climate resilience. Regional-national coordination is needed if the full range of options for building...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645048
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Climate Toolkits for Infrastructure PPPs - Water Production and Treatment Sector
World Bank Group - 2023
This toolkit contains a set of tools covering the major climate entry points (identification of risks, incorporation of climate considerations in the project selection, and appraisal of climate effects in the project's economics). Its inputs are preliminary project data as well as readily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014579074
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Climate Toolkits for Infrastructure PPPs : Water Production and Treatment Sector
World Bank Group - 2023
This toolkit contains a set of tools covering the major climate entry points (identification of risks, incorporation of climate considerations in the project selection, and appraisal of climate effects in the project's economics). Its inputs are preliminary project data as well as readily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014366511
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Somalia Economic Update, Eighth Edition : Integrating Climate Change with Somalia's Development: The Case for Water
World Bank Group - 2024
Somalia has remained on a strong economic reform path despite the various global and exogenous shocks that have continued to buffet the economy. Recurrent climate-related shocks, such as cycles of droughts, floods, locusts' infestation, higher international commodity prices, as well as increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495454
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Green Incentives for Climate Competitive Industries : A Practitioner's Handbook
World Bank Group - 2016
This handbook has been developed to provide instruction on the design and implementation of incentives for resource-efficiency purposes. The target audience is World Bank staff and stakeholders who are supporting the implementation of a resource-efficiency program in a country on behalf of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644367
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Resilience or Resignation : Facing Droughts and Floods in Rural, Poor Bolivia
World Bank Group - 2017
Bolivia is a country with a vast geographical diversity, from a high plateau (altiplano) that reaches 3,000 meters above sea level to valleys at mid-altitude and tropical plains. During the last decade, the magnitude of Bolivia's weather patterns has undergone significant changes; extreme...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644958
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Malawi Drought 2015-2016 : Post-Disaster Needs Assessment
World Bank Group - 2016
Bank and the United Nations (UN). The PDNA also developed a recovery strategy for the 2015-2016 drought by defining and … its financial implications, while making recommendations to improve future drought resilience. The report is structured as … three provides an analysis of the drought and an overview of the humanitarian consequences and the government's immediate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248559