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Water Partnership Program (WPP) Strategic Action Plan 2012–2016 Summary

Core Content

The Water Partnership Program (WPP) is a strategic initiative by the World Bank aimed at addressing the growing and complex global water challenges. The program's Strategic Action Plan for Phase II (2012–2016) outlines a comprehensive approach to enhance water-related investments and support the Bank's poverty reduction goals.

The WPP is funded by the governments of the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Denmark, with a total of $23.8 million allocated for Phase I, which supported over 200 activities in 60 countries, influencing $11.5 billion in World Bank financing and benefiting 52 million people, including 17 million in Africa.

Main Objectives of Phase II

Phase II of the WPP is designed to:

• Scale up innovative and complex water-related activities.
• Strengthen the Bank's long-term engagement in strategic geographic areas.
• Mainstream water services and management into climate-resilient, green growth strategies.
• Enhance coordination and partnership efforts both internally and externally.
• Improve the measurement of impact through a new Results Framework.

Key Components of Phase II

Component 1: Water in Other Sectors

• Supports the integration of water and climate change considerations into other sectors like energy, agriculture, environment, and urban development.
• Promotes green growth solutions through activities such as:
  • Analyzing the water-energy nexus.
  • Improving water-energy linkage planning.
  • Enhancing agricultural water productivity.
  • Addressing environmental services and ecosystem management.
• Encourages multi-purpose infrastructure design and water-sensitive urban design.

Component 2: New Global Initiatives

• Focuses on innovative solutions in areas such as:
  • Disaster Risk Management (DRM): Identifying and using climate tools, including remote sensing, to support risk assessment and climate-resilient infrastructure.
  • Remote Sensing (RS): Improving data collection and analysis using RS technologies to support water resource planning.
  • Cold Weather Sanitation: Enhancing sanitation in cold regions, particularly in Central Asia, Mongolia, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.
  • Results-Based Financing (RBF): Promoting RBF mechanisms across all water sub-sectors to improve project outcomes and accountability.

Component 3: Strategic Support in Priority Geographic Areas

• Targets strategic deltas, basins, and countries where water is a critical constraint to growth.
• Examples of priority areas include:
  • Deltas: Ganges, Nile, Jakarta, Incomati, Mekong.
  • Basins: Zambezi, Mekong, Ganges.
  • Regions: Sahel, Central Asia, West Balkans, Northeast Brazil.
  • Countries: Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, India, Iraq, Morocco, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Benin, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Yemen, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda, Vietnam.
• Supports cross-sectoral planning, investment optimization, and improved service delivery in fragile states and poor populations.

Key Strategies

Coordinating within the Bank

• Enhances results-based financing through collaboration with the Global Partnership for Output Based Aid (GPOBA).
• Promotes innovative financing tools and evidence-based decision-making.

Leveraging External Platforms

• Collaborates with international organizations, bilateral projects, and public-private partnerships to scale up impact.
• Utilizes global platforms for knowledge sharing and capacity building.

Scaling Up Communications and Knowledge Management

• Implements a Phase II Communications Strategy to increase awareness and visibility of the WPP.
• Develops a Knowledge Management (KM) Strategy to improve data sharing, learning mechanisms, and replication of successful models.

Measuring Success and Impact

• A new Results Framework is introduced to track progress toward specific indicator targets.
• Emphasizes outcomes and impacts, including:
  • Improved water productivity.
  • Better integration of water into climate adaptation and mitigation.
  • Enhanced resilience of vulnerable populations.
• Includes monitoring and evaluation systems and a database for tracking performance and reporting progress.

Conclusion

The WPP Phase II represents a strategic evolution in the World Bank's approach to water-related development. By expanding its scope, enhancing coordination, and introducing new mechanisms for financing and knowledge sharing, the program aims to better address the complexity of global water challenges, particularly in climate change, urbanization, and poverty reduction. The program's structure, including the Programmatic Window, ensures that the Bank can respond to emerging sectoral and geographic challenges with a more integrated and sustainable approach.