Addis Ababa water resilience profile (CWRA)

The Addis Ababa Water Resilience Profile represents an opportunity to continue regional efforts to build resilience capacity and explore strategies, through multiple lenses, to improve the water security of the region. The actions identified provide a foundational architecture upon which stakeholders can build upon by means of policies, projects, and continued coordinated work. The insights generated from this approach will ultimately help to protect the lives and health and well-being of the region’s inhabitants and environmental assets.

The paper identifies several visions which include:

• Promote water-sensitive behaviour and ensure sustainable water use and access for high water demand businesses and organizations;
• Improve safe and reliable access to water for marginalized communities and vulnerable groups;
• Target both the formal and informal education to build socioeconomic transformation, positive culture change and awareness around water source protection, development, environmental sensitivity, and sustainability; and
• Build a coalition between Addis Ababa City Administration, Oromia Regional State and Finfine Surrounding Oromia Special Zone and strengthen local stakeholder groups to develop and implement Integrated Water Resource Management Plan and inter-regional water resilience program.