Accelerating irrigation services and preserving ecosystem service values.

Accelerating irrigation services and preserving ecosystem service values

Overview

• Long-term Strategy• Green Growth Framework• Areas of Intervention

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

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

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

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

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

Focal Areas for Inclusive Green Growth

Areas of EngagementEnabling environment

Project Definition

Project Feasibility

Project Structuring

Transaction Support

Early-stage Preparation Mid-stage Preparation

ImplementationPost Evaluation

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

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

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)