Water Scarcity Platform

ear East and North Africa’s Water Scarcity Initiative
This Initiative aims to identify and streamline policies and best practices that can significantly improve
agricultural productivity and food security. It promotes a regional collaborative strategy that focuses on
the major priority areas such as strategic planning of water resources, governance, water management
efficiency, water supply augmenting, climate change adaptation and drought management, ground water
sustainability, benchmarking, monitoring of and reporting on water use efficiency and productivity in the
region.