Cairo World Water Week 2025
Join WRT, our partners and government representatives for our workshop at Cairo World Water Week:
Tracking resilience and shaping solutions for a climate-stressed region
Monday October 13, 9.30 – 11:00 Cairo time (GMT +3)
Room: Monaco C
Conveners: Deltares, AGWA, Arup, IWMI, Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI) - Egypt
A deep dive into water challenges and opportunities facing the North Africa and Middle East region, and how the Water Resilience Tracker works with governments to embed resilience into national policy
In North Africa and the Middle East, water insecurity is not only a persistent challenge, but it is also rapidly intensifying. Climate variability, population growth, urban expansion, and socio-political complexity are placing unprecedented pressure on already fragile water systems.
In this context, the Water Resilience Tracker emerges as a vital diagnostic and planning approach. Designed to help countries self-assess and improve the resilience of their water systems, the Water Resilience Tracker supports the integration of resilience principles into national climate planning and enables the translation of high-level strategies into actionable, place-based interventions.
The MENA region faces a set of shared water challenges that are increasingly exacerbated by climate change. Exacerbating these pressures is a gap in effective integration between data systems, governance structures, and sectoral planning processes, which limits countries’ ability to respond in a coordinated, forward-looking manner. The Water Resilience Tracker addresses this gap by providing a framework that fosters data-informed, systemic, and inclusive decision-making across scales.
In this session we will share Applications and Impact and the way forward in Egypt and Morocco: the example of Water Resilience Tracker phase I (policy assessment) in Morocco and phase II (deep dives to support mainstreaming resilience in planning) in Egypt.