Post on 17-Dec-2015
Water Land and Ecosystems CGIAR Research Program:
Uptake StrategyElizabeth Weight, IWMI Global Uptake Coordinator
Contents
• Overview of WLE at a Glance • Overview of WLE Impact Pathways and
Impact Pathway thinking • Fitting in Comms/KM into impact pathways• Assignment
CGIAR System Level Outcomes
1. Reduce rural poverty2. Increase food
security3. Improve nutrition
and human health4. Sustainable
management of natural resources
WLE IDO: IncomeIncreased and more equitable income from agricultural and
natural resources management and ecosystem services in rural
and peri-urban areas
WLE IDO: ProductivityImproved land, water and energy
productivity in rainfed and irrigated agro-ecosystems
WLE IDO: GenderWomen and marginalized
groups have decision making power over and increased
benefits derived from agriculture and natural
resources.
WLE IDO: Risk Management
Increased ability of low income communities to adapt to
environmental and economic variability, demographic shifts, shocks and long term changes
WLE IDO: EquityIncreased resilience of
communities through enhanced ecosystem services in
agricultural landscapes.
WLE Goal: Sustainable intensification of agricultural development
WLE Uptake Framework: CGIAR SLOs and WLE IDOs
WLE Future Impact Pathways
Flagship Thematic Impact Pathways
RRRSalinity Landscape degradationInformation Decision-making
Focal Region Development Challenges with integrated work from different SRPs
MekongIndus/GangesNile-East Africa West Africa
WLE Current Reality
• More than 160 projects, mapped into SRPs and aligned to activity clusters
• No coordinated work in the Basins
WLE research outputs
WLE research outcomes
WLE Intermediate Development Outcomes
WLE Uptake Framework: CGIAR/ISPC Impact Pathways/Theories of Change
System Level Outcomes
WLE research outputs
WLE research outcomes
WLE Intermediate Development Outcomes
Opportunity identification
Client analysis
Decision analysis
Partner engagement
Levers and incentives
WLE uptake strategy: significant focus on the research client
System Level Outcomes
Example of client focus: WLE resource recovery and reuse
Issue: Urban areas are growing and consuming more resources. How do we recover nutrients and water at scale? Technical knowledge is available, but few projects go to scale. WLE seeks to change this by analyzing business models and returns on investment.
Clear client focus: the private sector, public private partnerships, and business schools
The research portfolio is designed for the client: analyze successes and test promising business models for replication at scale
Multi-disciplinary research team includes economists, business developers, and environmental scientists
Faecal sludge Nutrients for agricultural production
WLE research outputs
WLE research outcomes
WLE Intermediate Development Outcomes
Opportunity identification
Client analysis
Decision analysis
Partner engagement
Levers and incentives
Supporting research client decision making through decision analysis
System Level Outcomes
Example: the decision analysis process Northeast Kenya: Tap the Merti aquifer to pump water > 100 km to town of Waiir?
Identify risks and uncertainties in decision of interest
Engage decision makers
Make probabilistic cost/benefit impacts on different stakeholder
groups of likely outcomes of decision
Compute value of additional information (uncertain variables with high information value = priorities for
measurement)Probabilistic outcomes (benefits/negative impacts) for different stakeholder groupsApplied Information Economics D. Hubbard,
“How to Measure Anything”, 2010
WLE research outputs
WLE research outcomes
WLE Intermediate Development Outcomes
Opportunity identification
Client analysis
Decision analysis
Partner engagement
Levers and incentives
Focused partner engagement, levers and incentives
System Level Outcomes
CPWF Mekong use of communication and knowledge management to improve dialogue
Changing how decisions are use of dams in the Mekong are made
1. Mekong Forum to dialogue around research
2. Short targeted State of Knowledge studies– in all Mekong Languages
3. Use of Film and video 4. Study tours and exchanges5. Face-to-face individual discussions
with Chinese Dam operators, investors, policy makers
Convening Power and Trust
Changes in how some dam operators carry out relocation and livelihood schemes, manage flows
Can discuss issues without fear of getting “shut down”
Designing Impact Pathways
Design Impact pathway
Develop Outcome Logic
Model
Develop Implementation
PlanImplement
Reflect
BudgetResourcesCapacity Comms/KM
Change agents, assumptions, strategies,
Client AnalysisNetwork MappingAssessing entry points
ResearchEngagement
Revise assumptionsIdentify new oppsIdentify changes
Types of KM Activities
Support Learning Culture
Open access of materials
Communication about the
project
Sharing and discussing progress
Repackaging, co-creation
Comms for policy
influence
Comms for development
Adapted from Simone Staiger
Integrating Communication & KM
Activities
Outputs
OutcomesImpacts
Internal ExternalImplementers Partners Users
ResearchKM on processesComms on what the project doesEngagement
Products into useRepositoriesRepackagingCommunicate about results
Comms/KM ProcessesEngagementMeetingsAdvocacy
Different approaches for different groups.
One-way communication - the complexity of the issue is low, the message; high certainty
Two-way communication - the issue is complex, the message difficult, no immediate guarantee
Participatory approaches - issue is highly complex, the messages not clear yet and there is yet no certainty that the action will lead to the desired outcome
Do we communicate to the right audience capable of taking the action we desire?
• Context matters – what are barriers?
• Who are the messengers (Not just products)
• How will products support impact pathways.
Assignment• WE will take 4 draft impact pathways and
transform them into Outcome Logic Models and then develop a KM/Comms plan for them– Global– Regional – Volta – Thematic – Landscape Degradation– Thematic – Information Decision-making
• 1hr developing outcome logic model• 1hr developing draft plan for KM/Comms plan