<p>Project information is sourced from Green Climate Fund. Please check terms of use for citation and licensing of third party data.</p>

Green Climate Fund Projects

Climate Change Resilience through South Africa’s Water Reuse Programme (“WRP”)

Gender action plan for FP209: Climate Change Resilience through South Africa’s Water Reuse Programme (“WRP”)

Gender assessment for FP209: Climate Change Resilience through South Africa’s Water Reuse Programme (“WRP”)

2024 Annual Performance Report for FP209: Climate Change Resilience through South Africa’s Water Reuse Programme (“WRP”)

Project Approved

Project Completed

Under Implementation

South Africa is ranked as one of most vulnerable countries to climate change and, in particular, to water-related vulnerability. Accordingly, the government's National Adaptation Plan stresses the need for enhanced water efficiency as water usage already exceeds reliable yields in a time when precipitation patterns are changing for the worse and as average temperatures continue to rise. Without action, the country is projected to face a 17 per cent water deficit by 2030.

The project aims to establish and operationalise a national water reuse programme (WRP) that helps address the water scarcity issue by transforming the country’s wastewater system. By treating water as a new asset class and stimulating and activating the water reuse market, South Africa can unlock future economic growth while protecting its scarce and increasingly demanded water-resources. The funding from GCF will reduce the risk exposure of potential private financiers and municipalities by blending GCF funds with funds from private investors while providing key stakeholders with technical assistance and capacity-building.

Grants from the GCF Project Preparation Facility (PPF) supported the Accredited Entity in the development of this project's funding proposal (FP).

Climate Policy Radar

Find climate change laws, policies, targets and other climate policy data and indicators for {text}, alongside information about their legislative process.

{text} climate laws, policies and reports

Use Climate Policy Radar's data science and AI-powered platform to search and explore thousands of climate change laws, policies and legal cases worldwide.

Law and Policy Search

Quickly and easily search through the complete text of thousands of climate change law and policy documents from every country.

Search the Climate Policy Radar database

An aim to achieve a quantifiable outcome within a given time-frame, set by an institution such as a national government.

Policy instruments are techniques or tools used by governing authorities to promote certain policies in order to achieve predetermined goals. Put simply, instruments are how a government tries to achieve its goals, with this taxonomy being focused on national policy instruments.

Risk is the potential for adverse consequences resulting from the dynamic interplay between (climate-related) hazards, exposure, and vulnerability of affected human or ecological systems.

Groups  of people who are adversely affected by climate change or the response to it

A set of principles, processes, and practices that build economic and political power to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy.

Renewable energy means all forms of energy produced from renewable sources in a sustainable manner.

Fossil fuel is a generic term for non-renewable energy sources such as coal, fossil gas, and oil (including crude oil, and petroleum products), that can be used for electricity and heat generation. Fossil fuels are hydrocarbons formed from pressurised and heated organic material buried over millions of years.

Molecules in the atmosphere that play a key role in the greenhouse effect by trapping heat radiating from Earth’s surface.

Area of the economy in which actors engage in identical or related activities.

In human systems, the process of adjustment to actual or expected climate change and its effects, in order to moderate harm, increase resilience or exploit beneficial opportunities. In natural systems, the process of adjustment to actual climate change and its effects; human intervention may facilitate adjustment to expected climate change and its effects.

The management and allocation of funds, assets and investments to meet various objectives

Either money or something of monetary value is transferred between two or more organisations, people or countries.

This sector includes firms and individuals offering specialised expertise in fields such as law, accounting, consulting, science and engineering.

This sector involves the distribution, treatment, and conservation of water resources.

Financial actors and resources that are primarily directed towards climate change mitigation, adaptation and compensation.

Dedicated pool of financial resources for climate-related projects.

Climate change impacts our society by disrupting the natural, economic and social systems we depend on. Physical hazards and underlying vulnerabilities can lead to increased resource competition for food and water, which can heighten the risk of conflict.

Actions to adapt human health, healthcare systems and well-being to climate change.

Actions or measures to adapt freshwater, coastal and marine systems to climate change.

woman and genders outside of the gender binary

Actions or measures to adapt freshwater systems to climate change.

This sector involves managing waste treatment, sanitation, pollution control and environmental cleanup.

People who are less able to respond to the effects of climate change due to having limited financial or physical assets

Gender action plan for FP209: Climate Change Resilience through South Africa’s Water Reuse Programme (“WRP”)

Risk

Impacted group

Just transition

Economic sector

Adaptation/resilience

Finance