The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) retained K&M Advisors LLC to prepare and lead presentations on the impact of climate change on the water sector in the Caribbean, as well as challenges and ways forward in governance and financing aspects. These presentations set the stage for discussions on how water utilities can act wisely in view of the climate change impact on their business—the CWUIC SP, a first-of-its-kind resilience facility, being one of the notable means available for them to consider, and deal with the sector´s challenges related to governance and financing. These presentations highlighted the state of knowledge regarding climate research as synthesized in the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), including projections that the extreme weather events become more frequent and/or intense in all regions. These presentations were made at a session titled “Ministerial Roundtable 1: Water and Climate-Related Disasters” as well as another one titled “Panel Discussion 1: Governance and Innovative Financing” at the 2023 CWWA conference’s High-Level Forum held in October in Guyana.

In this assignment, K&M is responsible for:

• Recommending the approach for IDB presentations at the CWWA 2023 HLF
• Preparing presentation materials
• Lead presentations at HLF