Scaling Water Accounting Innovation in Egypt

Egypt has been experiencing a growing gap between water supply and demand, which sheds light on the urgent need for water planning and allocation that is efficient, economically viable, and socially just and equitable. In response, the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI) has established a water accounting unit at the national level to provide spatially detailed information on water availability, use, and productivity. The CGIAR's Science programs on Policy Innovations and Scaling for Impact has joined forces to support operationalizing Water Accouning Plus (WA+) in the country. The session will discuss technical aspcts of WA+, deriving insights from IWMI's innovations from different regions. It also provides an empirical analysis on the institutionalization, value chain and workflow of WA+ across scale, sectors, contexts, and users, as well as the policy drivers and bottlenecks for enabling, uptaking, and sustaining WA+ at scale.