Critical success factors for resilient water infrastructure

This working paper presents a set of five critical factors for increasing the climate resilience of water infrastructure. It is based on a review of six Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) funded projects across Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. The review included interviews with project stakeholders supported by a desk review of project outputs. Its objective is to provide development practitioners with synthesised lessons from these projects to improve the resilience of future infrastructure projects and development programmes.

The five critical factors are as follows:

• Simple and effective communication of climate risks and uncertainties
• Involving the right stakeholders at every stage
• Capitalising on entry points
• Going beyond the project
• Building institutional capacity for assessment, design and financing