The accelerating climate change and global water crisis is a planet-sized problem that demands investments in solutions. Where advantageous, the water sector should re-orient funding and financing to nature-based solutions (NbS) such as forest management, reforestation, regenerative agricultural and ranching practices, wetland and floodplain restoration, and invasive plant management.
This how-to guide assists practitioners and investors seeking to improve water security by employing NbS to understand how to design, implement and finance investment programmes that drive long-term water security outcomes. The guide walks through each phase of a watershed investment programme lifecycle and outlines a development process to design and operate it to address specific water security challenges.
This guide, developed under the “Financing Nature for Water” partnership between The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Agence française de développement (AFD), collates decades of experience to codify the process for watershed conservation and watershed investment programs all over the world and embeds real-world case studies.