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Publications

Groundwater and ecosystem services:
A framework for managing smallholder
groundwater-dependent agrarian socio-ecologies
- applying an ecosystem services and resilience
approach
Pages: 25
Author(s): CGIAR Research
Program on Water, Land and
Ecosystems (WLE).
Published year: 2015.
Publisher(s): Colombo, Sri
Lanka: International Water
Management Institute (IWMI).
CGIAR Research Program on
Water, Land and Ecosystems
(WLE)
Enhancing the Climate
Resilience of Africa’s Infrastructure: The Power and
Water Sectors
Published: 2015-05
Author(s): Cervigni, Raffaello
Liden, Rikard
Neumann, James E.
Strzepek, Kenneth M.
This book evaluates -using
for the first time a single
consistent methodology
and the state-of-the-arte
climate scenarios-, the
impacts of climate change on
hydro-power and irrigation
expansion plans in Africa’s
main rivers basins (Niger,
Senegal, Volta, Congo, Nile,
Zambezi, Orange); and
outlines an approach to
reduce climate risks through
suitable adjustments to the planning and design process.
The book finds that failure to integrate climate change in
the planning and design of power and water infrastructure
could entail, in scenarios of drying climate conditions,
losses of hydropower revenues between 5% and 60%
(depending on the basin); and increases in consumer
expenditure for energy up to 3 times the corresponding
baseline values. In in wet climate scenarios, business-asusual infrastructure development could lead to foregone
revenues in the range of 15% to 130% of the baseline, to
the extent that the larger volume of precipitation is not
used to expand the production of hydropower. Despite
the large uncertainty on whether drier or wetter conditions
will prevail in the future in Africa, the book finds that by
modifying existing investment plans to explicitly handle the
risk of large climate swings, can cut in half or more the
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cost that would accrue by building infrastructure on the
basis of the climate of the past.
Citation
“Cervigni, Raffaello; Liden, Rikard; Neumann, James
E.; Strzepek, Kenneth M.. 2015. Enhancing the Climate
Resilience of Africa’s Infrastructure : The Power
and Water Sectors. Washington, DC: World Bank. ©
World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/
handle/10986/21875 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”
Is it possible to reach low-income urban dwellers
with good-quality sanitation?
Authors: David Satterthwaite,
Diana Mitlin, Sheridan Bartlett
Sanitation Needs
All urban dwellers need safe,
quick, easy access to clean
toilets, day and night – without
fear, without a long walk,
without a long wait in line, and
without the need to plan ahead
or to spend more than they can
easily afford. They should be
able to count on privacy, cleanliness and the means to wash
anus and hands quickly and conveniently, which is difficult
if there is no water piped on the premises.(1) These toilets
need to serve everyone – girls and boys, women and men
of all ages and conditions. Women who are menstruating
should have not only a way to wash but a place to put their
waste safely and privately. People with impaired mobility
should not have to add toilets to the list of challenges
they face.(2) Small children should be able to meet their
needs without someone having to pick up and dispose
of their waste or accompany them to a distant facility.
Older children should be able to count on sufficient
well-maintained toilets at school. And all toilets need to
function so that toilet wastes do not end up contaminating
anyone’s food, water or hands.
Children’s Ebola Recovery Assessment: Sierra
Leone
File size: 2 mb
Pages: 36
Published: June 2015
Nearly half the population
of Sierra Leone is under the
age of 18 and the impact of
the Ebola crisis on their lives
has been far-reaching - yet
to date, there has not been a
formal process for children to
outline their own priorities for
recovery to decision-makers.