Jordan

Strengthening water adaptation through stakeholder participation
By using participatory approaches and tools to strengthen water adaptation capacities, the programme aims to enhance and sustain Jordan’s Millennium Development Goal achievements. WGF provides technical advice on programme development and implementation on assessing impacts of climate change on water availability and quality in Zarqa River Basin. It will identify opportunities and barriers to climate change water adaptation and review and deliver reform strategies for legal and institutional frameworks and national water policies and action plans. It will also contribute to build local and national adaptation capacities using participatory approaches and document and share knowledge generated from the Zarqa River Basin.

The main outcome of the entire programme is to sustain access to improved water supply sources despite increased water scarcity induced by climate change and strengthened adaptive capacity for health protection and food security to climate change under water scarcity conditions.

Partners: UNDP-Jordan, MDG Achievement Fund, UNESCO, World Health Organization (WHO), FAO, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Ministry of Water Jordan, Ministry of Environment Jordan and others.