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Project Background<\/h3><\/span><\/div><\/div>[vc_column_text]Climate change, extreme events, pandemics, political instability, competing demands, and other shocks and stresses are impacting water systems around the world. These impacts are increasing in intensity, likelihood, and frequency. These unpredictable changes in the system are severely impacting the ability of organizations and communities to thrive. These changes will not only impact water quantity and quality but also the access to and provision of other water-related goods and services. These drivers have exposed the vulnerabilities of the entire water system and laid bare our global connections and inter-reliance.<\/p>\n

There is an urgent need to address the impact of these challenges through developing resilient socio-economic, institutional, and biophysical systems, as the provision of goods and services from water systems are interconnected and influence energy, agriculture, healthcare, manufacturing, and other key sectors. Decision-makers require practical actions and strategies with the means to measure and monitor progress towards these goals. The key to thriving water-based economies, ecosystems, and societies under such shocks and changes is to collectively aim for water resilience.<\/p>\n

Creating water resilience at the system level will require coordination, transparency, and alignment of common goals among all stakeholders: public, private, and civil society. A resilient basin is a pre-requisite for the collective resilience for all the stakeholders; however, basin water resilience is a necessary but not sufficient condition for individual stakeholder resilience. Additionally, a stakeholder can contribute to or detract from the overall resilience of a basin.<\/p>\n

The project Water Resilience Assessment Framework (WRAF), launched in 2019 with core funding from BHP, aims to develop a practical framework to support building and monitoring resilience at all levels.\u00a0 The framework is developed through engagement with key stakeholders, building on their existing resilience-building efforts where available and developing shared understanding where divergence occurs, so that it can be applied by all water users, water managers, and decision-makers, in all water contexts, and at all water scales.<\/p>\n

The project is designed in three phases: Phase I Landscape study (2019-2020), Phase II Development of the generic Framework and guidance documents for key sectors (2020-2022), Phase III Pilot testing, implementation and outreach (2023-onwards).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/5″][vc_single_image image=”8879″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_shadow” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” css=”” link=”https:\/\/ceowatermandate.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CEOWater_WRAF_r5_web-1.pdf”][vc_empty_space height=”9px”][vc_btn title=”Download<\/strong>” style=”flat” color=”sky” align=”center” css=”” button_block=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fceowatermandate.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F08%2FCEOWater_WRAF_r5_web-1.pdf%20|target:_blank”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Engagement Opportunities” tab_id=”1672774467533-acd3e00c-6502″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″]

Piloting opportunities: Corporates, Utilities, and Basin Managers and Planner<\/h3><\/span><\/div><\/div>[vc_column_text css=””]\n
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The project team is looking for active collaboration opportunities to implement the framework within all three sectors from diverse contexts ranging from small to large organizations, operating in developed and developing nations, independently isolated business units and utilities to connected multi-level corporates and utilities (wastewater treatment to drinking water suppliers), and from regional water basin to national and transboundary basins. All are welcome to implement the WRAF!<\/p>\n

Express your interest to join the implementing opportunities by contacting the project coordinator Ashok Chapagain at\u00a0 akchapagain@pacinst.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”8884″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” css=”” link=”https:\/\/ceowatermandate.org\/resilience-assessment-framework\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/08\/WRAF-Engagement-Opportunities-2024.pdf”][vc_empty_space height=”9px”][vc_btn title=”Download<\/strong>” style=”flat” color=”sky” align=”center” css=”” button_block=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fceowatermandate.org%2Fresilience-assessment-framework%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F26%2F2024%2F08%2FWRAF-Engagement-Opportunities-2024.pdf|target:_blank”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Guidance, Tools, & Resources” tab_id=”1672771583720-02b94945-4b2c”][vc_column_text css=””]Guidance documents<\/strong><\/p>\n

The WRAF is further elaborated in three sector-specific guidance documents that provide a standardized, stepwise approach to measuring, assessing, and enhancing resilience across socio-economic, institutional, and biophysical system components. These guidance help corporates<\/a>, utilities<\/a>, and basin managers and planning authorities<\/a> in developing resilience strategies, focusing on the relevant water challenge it is experiencing, and developing or selecting appropriate resilience indicators (Resilience Scoring Tool<\/a>) that can go beyond regulations and traditional performance mechanisms to tangibly define resilience in a way that can be both tracked and communicated to important stakeholders.<\/p>\n

These guidance documents also provide a set of \u2018Water Resilience Indicators\u2019 and a \u2018Resilience Scoring Tool\u2019 for all three sectors. Practical examples are provided throughout the guidance document to showcase how each step could be implemented in practice.<\/p>\n

Each sector-specific guidance document further aims to:<\/p>\n