Conducive policy environments for effective investment in water

Rudolph Cleveringa, IFAD

Pretoria, November 2010

r.cleveringa@ifad.org

Rural Poverty in Africa: over 400m and growing

Scope for improvement

Where and what does it bring

Where is the money? Yes, China can

Transparency International

Guardian land grabs

Remittances?

0 to 5 per cent of GDP

Libya 0.3Gabon 0.6South Africa 0.6

Botswana 1.0Cameroon 1.5Cote D'Ivoire 1.6Zambia 1.8Sudan 2.0Chad 2.1Angola 2.2Tanzania 2.4Egypt 3.4Swaziland 3.4Kenya 3.8Mauritania 3.9Ethiopia 4.4Malawi 4.6Algeria 4.7Nigeria 4.7Central African Republic

4.9

Annual remittances to Africa

38.6 billion USD

Over 25 per cent of GDP

Liberia 25.8Cape Verde 34.2Eritrea 37.9

SomaliaEst. up to

60%

10 to 25 per cent of GDP

Morocco 10.7Sierra Leone 11.6Mali 12.5Gambia 17.0Comoros 21.1Burundi 22.8Lesotho 24.1

5 to 10 per cent of GDP

Tunisia 5.1Benin 5.5Madagascar 5.7Republic of Congo

5.7

Niger 5.8Rwanda 6.0Togo 6.4Ghana 6.6Uganda 6.9Zimbabwe 7.2Democratic Republic of the Congo

7.4

Mozambique 7.4Senegal 7.2Burkina Faso 8.2Guinea 8.6

Russian Dolls: Embeddedness– Water Governance in Fragile States

It is all a matter of scale

Farmer in field-take Haiti if no other Kevin

Cocha water wars Water towers

Who to break the impasse?

• Policy levels • NEPAD/CAADP Pillar 1• AMCOW, AU, ECOWAS• CGIAR Reform Programme• Global Donor Platform for Rural

Development• World Business Council• World Water Council• UN Water, UNECA, UNCCD• Etc

• The real issues;– Agricultural trade restrictions– The ‘hidden’ tied-aid agenda

Business as un-ususal: using innovations

• Incentives/fellowships • Labour saving for women

• Knowledge Management and communication

• Rural Citizen building• Governance & Name-and-

Shame• Economic Zones and Tax

Breaks• Anticipate markets and

consumer behaviour• Water and Nutrient recycling• Fancy finance (micro)• Fancy finance (macro)

• F2F, CAPNET, Universities• Domestic water and technology,

Multiple Use, Literacy• Smart ICT Africa, Networks, COP’s,

Envt services• L&W rights, WUAs, Water

parliaments, decentralization• Anti-corruption, Mo Ibrahim Prize• RAI, VC, out-grower schemes, non-

ag labour (‘maquila’)• Convenience food, packaging &

labelling on farm• Peri-urban ag and waste water

mining• Remittances, insurances • Cash transfers, vouchers, subsidies,

buy-outs • Capturing Climate funds, BMGF, etc

More of it, and now – in a transparent, accountable way!