Agri-water Share Fair Projects' Presentations

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Date: Thursday 3rd February 2011

Location: Large Auditorium, ILRI Campus, Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA

Organised by: International Water Management Institute, supported by Peter Ballantyne, ILRI KMIS and facilitated by Nadia Manning-Thomas, CGIAR ICT-KM Program

03/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA

Water and Agriculture Share Fair

Agri-Water Mini Share Fair:Project presentations (10)

Note: All information and images in the following presentations are all from the projects that participated in the Agri-WaterShare Fair. Credit should be given to those projects.

Funder: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Lead organisation: IWMI

Key partners: FAO, SEI, IFPRI, IDE, CH2MHill

Budget: 7.3 million

Duration: 3 years

i. Project Title: AWM Solutions project



1. Map your projects geographical focus

Ghana, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Tanzania & Zambia

India: Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal



Country & intervention focus:

* Small reservoirs

* On-farm water harvesting structures

* Individual motorpumps

* Electrification

* Treadle pumps

2. What is your project trying to achieve

Identify promising Ag Water Management solutions

Research them through case studies

Map suitability and model possible impacts (+/-) of outscaling

Write compelling business cases for uptake by relevant actors

Longterm impact:

Increase in investments in agricultural water management for smallholders (f/m)

Better quality investments increasing likelihood of successful uptake by smallholders (f/m)



3. What approach(es) is your project using?

How is your project trying to achieve its objectives?

Developing evidence based business models.

What is the project doing?

Dialogue process with stakeholders

Dialogue with the donor

Case studies (surveys, secondary data)

Suitability domains (GIS modeling)

Impact modeling (SWAT DREAM)

What tools/vehicles is it using?

Active Steering Committee & Ambassadors

Dialogue

Slide decks



4. Who is the project working with and for?

Stakeholders: BMGF and other donors, Government agencies involved in AWM (ministries of agriculture, water or irrigation departments), NGOs

Target groups: donors, investors

Ultimate beneficiaries: smallholder farmers (f/m)



5. Your projects Unique Selling Points

Provide TWO (2) things that your project is good at

Evidence based (!) solutions and business models

Dialogue with key stakeholders throughout the project

Tell us ONE (1) thing that your project is struggling with or is a challenge for your project

Converting a set of complex information captured in researchy language into a simple slick message appealing to demanding donors and high level policy makers



Funder: IFAD


Key partners: IFAD & other donors, local partners / universities

Budget: 1.2 million

Duration: 3 years

ii. Project Title: AWM in Challenging contexts




Nepal: Western region

Sri Lanka: East

Ghana: North

Burkina: South

Ethiopia




Provide guidance for implementing AWM in challenging contexts (post war, weak institutions, recent decentralization)

Longterm impact:

Successful investments in AWM that are adapted to the institutional context and that benefit smallholder farmers




How is your project trying to achieve its objectives?

INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS: CASE STUDIES & NATIONAL CONTEXT

Analyze the institutional context in which AWM interventions take place

Analyze AWM interventions and factors leading to their success or the lack thereof

Does the institutional context fit the project design, implementation and management? Given the challenging institutional context how can AWM implementation be improved

What is the project doing?

Research & dialogue

What tools/vehicles is it using?

Contextual analysis & case studies



macro

local

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Stakeholders: IFAD (CPM, project implementation level) and other donors & organizations working in AWM implementation, similar research projects

Target groups: donors, investors

Ultimate beneficiaries: smallholder farmers (f/m)




Provide TWO (2) things that your project is good at

Focus on institutional context across scales: from local to national

Objective solid evidence from the field

Tell us ONE (1) thing that your project is struggling with or is a challenge for your project

Creative and effective outreach



Funder: GTZ/BMZ


Key partners:

Ghana: ISSER, WRI

Ethiopia: EEA, AMU,

Germany: PIK, ZEF

Budget: 1.2 million euros Duration: 2008-2011

iii. Rethinking water storage for adaptation to climate change in sub-Saharan Africa



1. Geographical focus



Volta basin watersheds

Vea (Yaragagna) Saata Golinga

Blue Nile basin watersheds

Koga Gumara Indris

2. Objective



Key Research Question

How can climate change be built into the planning and management of water storage?

Achievement

Contribution to planning storage options that ensure optimal adaptation to CC-induced impacts on water availability in SSA

3. Approach



Basin scale analyses

Evaluation of climate change impacts on storage at basin scale

Dynamic Downscaling

Hydrological Modeling (SWAT)

Water Resource Modeling (WEAP)

Site level analyses

Understanding storage at the local (economic, socio-political aspects)

Anthropology students

HH surveys

Econometric analyses

Evaluation framework/metrics

to assist in planning and management of storage

Guidelines

how (i.e. method) to build CC into decision-making processes for storage

4. Working with and for?



Targeted at institutions that evaluate, design and implement water resource development projects and investment programs

International development agencies

State bodies (Ministry of Water Resources in Ethiopia, VBA Ghana)

Public and private funding agencies (NGOs etc)

Beneficiaries farmers and others that depend on water storage to support their livelihoods

5. Unique Selling Points



Good at:

Climate, Hydrological and Water Resource Modeling

Anthropological research

Struggling with:

Outreach linking to relevant government personnel and others

http://africastorage-cc.iwmi.org/

Funder: Challenge Program Water and Food

Lead organisation: Mulitple

Key partners: Many

Budget: 4 7 M per basin.

Duration:2010 - 2013

iv. Nile, Volta and Limpopo Basin Development Challenges




Blue Nile Basin Ethiopian Highlands

Volta Basin Northern Ghana and Burkina Faso

Limpopo Basin Mozambique, Southern Zimbabwe, Limpopo province, South Africa



1. Geographical focus: Nile basin, Ethiopia






Improved management of rainwater in landscapes to benefit people


Innovation platform(s) for knowledge sharing and policy influence;

Landscape approach

Livelihood, hydrology/water productivity and ecosystem indexing and modeling for impact evaluation/prediction at various scales

Strong partnership; range of partners across scales, larger network and linkages

Interdisciplinary research; team work and institutions

Capacity building; mentoring, facilitating

Innovation for action, communication, adaptive management






5. Unique Selling Points

2 things that your project is good at

Closely working with the national and regional partners to spur widespread innovation, policy influence and institutional strengthening and reform in combination with rainwater management interventions;

Cross-basin learning, knowledge sharing and continual communication for adaptive management

1 thing that your project is struggling with

Sustaining functional partnership, beyond financial incentives



Funder: IFAD


Key partners: IFAD projects, Challenging Contexts, AWM Solutions

Budget: $1.5m

Duration: June 2010 December 2013

v. Improved Management of Agricultural Water in Eastern and Southern Africa: IMAWESA




21 countries in East and Southern Africa

Focus countries

Ethiopia

Tanzania

Kenya

Rwanda

Mozambique

Malawi




providing knowledge, technical support and capacity building support to enabling decision makers and implementers to make informed choices on AWM.

Get pro-poor and gender-equitable AWM into policies, practices, institutions and investments.

Poor rural women and men will make better use of natural resources through improved AWM technologies for improved livelihoods. Policies and implementers would be responsive to the needs of extremely poor farmers. Poor farmers are supported to take up AWM solutions.




Networking work and through partners to shares knowledge from previous and on-going research.

Currently - identifying the needs of its partners and collaborators to support capacity building and learning.

A key tool - establishing learning alliances across countries for knowledge sharing and learning. Begin with focus countries.




Stakeholders:

Policy makers and implementers of IFAD-supported projects and programs.

Implementers of AWM projects supported by governments and development partners, NGOs, CBOs.

Private and public investors in AWM.

Local community leaders.

Researchers.

Target groups: extreme poor rural women and men.

Beneficiaries: All programs and projects in ESA with an AWM component, particularly those that target the extreme poor.




Strengths: Capacity building in AWM and in knowledge sharing skills, and knowledge sharing platform.

Challenge: Operationalizing a strong learning alliance to generate and share knowledge in a way that responds to our target group needs, is participatory and inclusive and increases the use of research outputs.



Funder: IFAD

Lead organisation: IWMI (admin) / WaterWatch (technical)

Key partners: IWMI / WaterWatch / Basfood / DLV-Plant

Budget: 1.8 million $

Duration: 30 months

vi. Project Title: Smart ICT Information and Advice for Farming in Africa




Egypt (delta traditional; desert modern)

Sudan (Gash spate irrigation)

Ethiopia (Rift Valley; Gambella)

Mali




Awareness of ICT opportunities in agriculture, including weather and water management

Which type of data being considered most useful

Which type of media being considered most useful

WHAT TO BE ACHIEVED ?

People using cell phones to enhance agricultural production, crop water productivity (livelihoods and environment)




user needs assessments , demonstration projects, participatory development, iterative progress

Provide weekly (if needed daily) data on weather, crops, river flow and soil moisture to range of stakeholders

Satellite measurements, web-based services, text messages, pictures on smart phones




Stakeholders: National Agricultural Research Centers, local agricultural extension officers,

Target groups: farmers, farmer cooperatives, out growers, WUA, irrigation districts, basin planners

Beneficiaries:

- Farmers (small holder, out growers, commercial)

- government (planning and monitoring)

- Companies (cell phone industry, data communication providers, fertilizers)




GOOD:

Provide local and specific assistance, quasi real time

Transparency on resources management

CHALLENGE:

- Not all beneficiaries having access to water and fertilizers



Funder: IFAD/UNESCO-IHE/ WB/ others

Convenors: UNESCO-IHE/ MetaMeta

Country networks: Yemen (WEC), Pakistan (SPO, PARC), Sudan (MoWR), Ethiopia (OWRB, HU)

Budget: 1.6 M USD (next 4 years)

Duration: started in 2005, for a long time

vii. Spate Irrigation Network



1.Geographical focus of SpN

The well-known spate areas (Pakistan, Iran, North Africa, Horn, Yemen)

The unknown spate areas (Afghanistan, Central Asia, Latin America) exploring

All flood based farming areas



2. What isthe Spate Irrigation Networktrying to achieve

Better practice, better livelihoods in the spate areas

Spate irrigation for poverty alleviation and rural growth



3. What approach(es) isthe Spate Irrigation Network using?

What is the Network doing?

Develop and expand the network

Innovations from country to country

Capacity building

Support to IFAD projects

Approach>>

Engagement - drawing on practioners and network members

Explictly working on linking with farmers

Outputs> there is much low hanging fruit

Using local languages



4. Who is the Network working with and for?

Practioners, members = 450

and focus:

Program developers working in the spate areas

Policy holders (policy notes)

Develop direct links with farmers/ WUAs

Universities (mainstreaming in education)

MSc students (small documentation grants



5.SpNsUnique Selling Points

USP

Network not organization of project has long term perspective

Open source sharing

Focus on practicals and do-ables

Challenge

Avoiding that investment programs remain

business as usual



Funder: UNESCO-IHE/IFAD/Cap-Net/UNESCO-IHP

Lead organisation: MetaMeta & Nymphaea

Key partners: UNESCO-IHE/IFAD/Cap-Net / UNESCO-IHP

Budget: (2011) 150,000 euro

Duration: launched in 2009

viii. Project Title: TheWaterChannel www.thewaterchannel.tv



1. Our geographical focus

Visitors from www.thewaterchannel.tv are from all over the world!

185 countries (top 20 of the 1st year)



2. TheWaterChannel wants to achieve..

TheWaterChannel wants to be the main outlet for stimulating debate. Not only within the water sector, but also outside! TheWaterChannel wants to achieve this by providing fast learning, be an open source for practical and inspiring learning, bring water on many unexpected agendas and trigger discussions. The emphasis is on making information available that is low threshold, that inspires and informs to act

Be part of a wave moving towards better water management!



3. Our approaches

Online and offline promotion campaigns

Use social media (facebook, twitter, linkedin)

Link with educational programs

General content management > expanding video database



4. TheWaterChannel works with and for

Together with our core team (UNESCO-IHE, Cap-Net, IFAD) and several other organizations TheWaterChannel addresses a large audience; students, specialists everyone who wants to make a change!

Providing open source approach everyone can contribute

Special targeted projects (Laboratory tests, DVD package, water management in Ethiopia, water harvesting videos)



5. TheWaterChannels USPs

Implement new projects quickly (DVD package, live streaming, develop materials)

The largest water related video collection

Challenge: engage much more with people from outside the water world



Join the wave at www.thewaterchannel.tv

More info: [email protected]

Funder: CPWF phase 1, Danida, FAO, WSSCC, various

Lead organisation: Global MUS Group

Key partners: 14 core partners (IFAD, FAO, CG, Winrock, IRC, others) and 350+ individual members

Budget: CPWF phase 1: USD1.6 million

Duration: since 2004

ix. Project Title: Community-driven multiple-use water services



Projects geographical focus :a) CPWF phase 1: 30 sites in 8 countries (see map)b) Danida: five countries SADCc) MUS Group: global

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2

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Andes (Colombia

& Bolivia)

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Limpopo (Zimbabwe

& South Africa)

3

Nile (Ethiopia)

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4

Indus-Ganges

(India & Nepal)

5

Mekong

(Thailand)

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2. What is your project trying to achievegoal and outputs

Goal: realizing the shared vision: all people receiving water services for multiple uses, especially in informal, agriculture-based settings, to achieve all MDGs and Human Rights

Outputs: Evidence-based knowledge generation and pilot-testing and capacity building on HOW TO do community-driven multiple-use water services, so planning and designing water services or rehabilitations:

according to peoples own demands and priorities

overcoming counterproductive sectoral single-use mindsets

including the marginalized

gender: often prioritizing domestic uses



Improving multiple uses, for multiple livelihood benefits according to peoples own priorities (more MDGs and human rights to water, food, health and dignity)

Using and re-using multiple sources through multiple shared infrastructure, for more efficient water development and waste management

Building on age-old community practice, for more efficiency and sustainability, avoiding damage of unplanned uses

Embedding in longer-term community planning and integrated support by local government, for upscaling world-wide

2. What is your project trying to achieve - outcomes

Community

National

Intermediate

Flows of knowledge and resources

Flows of knowledge and resources

3. Approach of learning alliances, with learning wheels

Source: Picoteam 2007; Van Koppen et al 2006/2009


Project partners:

CPWF phase 1 CP28 MUS project: project partners: IWMI (lead), IRC, IDE, Khon Kaen University Thailand, national research institutes, NGOs, government, constituting learning alliances with 150 institutions in 30 sites in 8 countries and global (e.g. WWF4, WWF5, ICID, Comprehensive Assessment, etc)

SADC/Danida: IWRM Demonstration Projects: governments and implementing partners in Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia

Global Mus Group: 14 core partners (Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF), Cinara Colombia, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Plan International, PumpAid, RAIN Foundation, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), the Water Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC), Winrock International and the World Fish Center. Over 350 members

Target groups: communities, public and private water service providers, policy makers, program managers, international water and development community, financiers, research organizations

Beneficiaries: Poor women and men in rural and peri-urban areas




Selling points:

A concrete solution for all investments in water infrastructure, and if well targeted, the best way to use water for empowering women, the land-poor, disabled and other marginalized

A lively global community which is learning rapidly about cost-effective knowledge generation on innovative community-driven multiple-use water services

Difficulties

Fund raising is difficult, because of the single-water use silos among donors and disciplinary boxes of scientists, and low costs of e.g. the global MUS Group





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Ownership and

understanding

of MUS and its

impacts among

national level

stakeholders

Coordination of

planning,

implementation and

financing of

mus

among national level

organisations

Capacity to follow

a learning

approach to

mus

among national

level organisations

National policies,

legislation, norms and

standards allow for

locally appropriate

solutions and adaptive

management

National water

policy supports

rights

-

based

approaches and

access of the poor

to water for multiple

uses

Implementing and

scaling up a sustainable,

equitable and effective

MUS approach;

principles at national

level for an enabling

environment

National Level

Ownership and

understanding

of MUS and its

impacts among

national level

stakeholders

Coordination of

planning,

implementation and

financing of

mus

among national level

organisations

Capacity to follow

a learning

approach to

mus

among national

level organisations

National policies,

legislation, norms and

standards allow for

locally appropriate

solutions and adaptive

management

National water

policy supports

rights

-

based

approaches and

access of the poor

to water for multiple

uses

Implementing and

scaling up a sustainable,

equitable and effective

MUS approach;

principles at national

level for an enabling

environment

National Level

Ownership and

understanding of

MUS and its

impacts among

intermediate level

stakeholders

Participatory

project cycles are

followed in

implementation

programmes

Resources at

intermediate level

to implement

mus

Coordination of

planning,

implementation and

financing among

intermediate level

stakeholders

Capacity to follow

a learning

approach to

mus

among

intermediate level

organisations

Intermediate

level institutions

to support

communities in

managing

mus

Enabling environment for

implementing and scaling up a

sustainable, equitable and

effective MUS approach;

principles at

intermediate/service provider

level

Intermediate Level

Ownership and

understanding of

MUS and its

impacts among

intermediate level

stakeholders

Participatory

project cycles are

followed in

implementation

programmes

Resources at

intermediate level

to implement

mus

Coordination of

planning,

implementation and

financing among

intermediate level

stakeholders

Capacity to follow

a learning

approach to

mus

among

intermediate level

organisations

Intermediate

level institutions

to support

communities in

managing

mus

Enabling environment for

implementing and scaling up a

sustainable, equitable and

effective MUS approach;

principles at

intermediate/service provider

level

Intermediate Level

Positive attitude

and

understanding

on MUS

Proper financial

models to

ensure

sustainability

Understanding of

poor people

s

water

-

based

livelihoods

Understanding of

available

technology

options

Effective and

inclusive

community

institutions for

managing

mus

Understanding of

available water

resources and

services

Implementing a

sustainable, equitable

and effective MUS

approach

-

principles to

be addressed in the

different phases of the

project cycle at

community level

Community Level

Positive attitude

and

understanding

on MUS

Proper financial

models to

ensure

sustainability

Understanding of

poor people

s

water

-

based

livelihoods

Understanding of

available

technology

options

Effective and

inclusive

community

institutions for

managing

mus

Understanding of

available water

resources and

services

Implementing a

sustainable, equitable

and effective MUS

approach

-

principles to

be addressed in the

different phases of the

project cycle at

community level

Community Level

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