Nile Goblet trainingAddis Ababa 8-9th November

Gondar 13-14 NovemberCatherine Pfeifer & Yenenesh Abebe

Improving resilience of rural livelihoods by using rainwater management as an entry point. N3: raise awareness that solutions are context

specific Provide a tool for geographical targeting

Nile Basin Development Challenge program : N3 on targeting and scaling out

Participants understand the concept of integrated rainwater management and rainwater management strategies

Participants understand the concept of suitability and feasibility maps

Participant are able to map out rainwater management strategies of their choice with the Nile Goblet tool

Participants are able to feed their own maps to the Nile tool

Participants are able to organize a Nile training for their peers

Objective of the training

Competence based training◦ Little formal teaching◦ Lots lots lots of exercises : “discover the

suitability mapping in your own speed” ◦ Learn how to learn on your own

Open source training => “open-source spirit”◦ Testing a new tool (beta version) ◦ We learn together◦ We keep track of error messages ◦ We help each other

Spirit of the training

Review the concept of rainwater management at landscape scale

Discover the Nile-Goblet tool Make suitability and feasibility maps

Program Day 1

Two set of exercises that can be solved in : ArcGIS = refresher of last year training Grass = open source solution

Please choose your software and get it installed during the break (from the CD). For ArcGIS request your free trial license on the esri website.

Prepare your own data for the Nile Goblet tool

A name tag

You should have a ◦ Nile-Goblet manual ◦ ArcGIS manual ◦ A CD

If you are from outside Addis/Gondar◦ a reimbursement form

Some housekeeping

What is rainwater management? Examples of practices What is a the farm and the landscape scale? What is integrated watershed

management?

Rainwater management ?

 Zone\Land use

Main objective (examples)

Cropland Grassland Degraded land

Uplands Increase infiltrationAgro-forestry, forestry

Increase the quantity and quality of fodder for livestockover-sowing, limiting animal movement

Rehabilitate degraded landhalf-moon, forestry

Midlands Control erosion, maintain soil moistureSoil and water conservationAgro-forestryConservation agriculture

Lowlands More efficient use of surface or shallow waterWells, river diversion

Rainwater management at landscape scale

Suitability mapping for rainwater management practices

Select all locations where the suitability conditions are jointly met (equal weight overlay) (C)

Identification of bio-physical suitability criteria and thresholds for a given RMP (A)

Overlay all the geographical suitability layers corresponding to the suitability criteria (B)

Introducing socio-economic constraints

Feasibility mapping for rainwater management practices

Bio-physical suitability map Willingness of adoption map

Feasibility map

Small area estimation ◦ Econometric model for adoption based on

household data◦ Extrapolation based on the Ethiopian Rural Atlas◦ Model with and without spatial trend.

Willingness of adoption maps (for rainwater management practice)

Aggregation to the landscape scale: combining practices into strategies

Strategy quantification (C)

Suitability / feasibility map

practice I

Suitability / feasibility map

practice II

Suitability / feasibility map

practice III

Rainwater management strategy map (D)

Landscape delineation layer (A)

Targets practice I

Zonal statistics (B)

Targets practice II

Targets practice III

Example of strategy mapping

An open source GIS tool that can produce the ◦ Suitability maps ◦ Feasibility maps ◦ Strategy maps Without prior GIS knowledge

Flexible tool◦ Can be adjusted for any practice/technology◦ For any location in the world

versions◦ For the Nile basin (large scale)◦ For watersheds (small scale) in development

So what is Nile-Goblet tool?