Mechanisms for Nexusing

The ‘Mechanisms for Nexusing’ policy brief series aims to provide guidance to local governments across Africa for building resilience through the adoption of a water-energy-food nexus approach. The series outlines several mechanisms and provides high-level recommendations for implementing nexus, as outlined below:

• Partnering for Nexus – How to support transversal collaboration.
• Legal Mechanisms for Coordination – Identifying existing capacity within South African law.
• Urban Data – A tool for integrated resource governance in food-water-energy nexus.
• Financial considerations – Exploring interconnections to finance the water- energy-food nexus.
• Crisis as a Catalyst – Learning from and leveraging disruption to better inform integrated urban planning as nexus tool.

This series has been developed as part of the Nexusing Water, Energy and Food to Increase Resilience in the Cape Town Metropolitan Area Project, funded by the NWO and NRF and implemented by Utrecht University, Stellenbosch University, University of the Western Cape, ICLEI Africa and the Economic Development Partnership.