Water as Leverage Nakuru for a Resilient Sponge City

# Challenge In recent years - water is increasingly recognized as an important indicator of climate urgency and an enabler for sustainable development - especially in urban areas because of rapid urbanisation. Moreover - the widespread underfunding of early project development activities results in a growing difficulty to fill the pipeline of infrastructure project investments by national and international financiers. While (climate) financing availability for project implementation is on the rise - the investments in the process for project conceptualisation - identification and development - based on a sound strategy for long term urban climate adaptation - are still widely lacking. The Water as Leverage programme has been developed to accelerate climate change adaptation by aiming to generate projects that address the urgent water and climate adaptation...