Debt-for-Water Swaps: Innovative Finance for Water Security, Climate Resilience, and Sustainable Development

Debt-for-Water Swaps: Innovative Finance for Water Security, Climate Resilience, and Sustainable Development explores how countries can convert sovereign debt into strategic investments that strengthen water infrastructure, enhance climate resilience, and advance the SDGs. This practical guide provides policymakers, development practitioners, and sustainability professionals with a comprehensive overview of debt-for-water swaps, from legal structuring and institutional arrangements to stakeholder coordination and long-term risk management.

• Learn how debt-for-water swaps can address global water scarcity
• Understand how swaps align with SDG 6, NDCs, and climate finance
• Explore strategies for integrating swaps into national budgets and policies
• Discover risk mitigation tools, MRV frameworks, and post-swap sustainability planning
• Gain insights on how swaps fit within global debt architecture and green finance

Whether you’re a finance official, donor agency advisor, water governance expert, or climate policy analyst, this book offers actionable knowledge to scale innovative finance for sustainable water solutions.