draft - Operational Strategy on Water and Food Security

Consulting Partners Meeting

19 August 2011

Stockholm

GWP Strategy:

“our results framework”

how we create and deliver value in achieving our vision

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GWP visionWater security

A key contributor to sustainable socio-economic

well-being and national development

Goal 3Reinforce knowledge sharing and

communicationsRaising awareness, creating and

disseminating knowledge, and building capacity

Goal 2Address critical

development challengesDevelop and advocate

solutions to help governments take better decisions to

improve resilience

Goal 4Build a more effective network

Government, civil society and the private sector strengthen the

partnership to improve governance and sustainable funding

Goal 1Promote water as a key part of

sustainable national developmentGovernments make water

resources management a top priority and invest in its

development

GWP Strategy:

Mission:…to support the sustainable development and management of water resources at all levels

Strategic Goals

Strategic Elements

Vision and Mission

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Goal 1:Promote water as a key part of

sustainable national development

Goal 2:Address critical development

challenges

Goal 3:Reinforce knowledge sharing and

communications

Goal 4:Build a more effective network

1a: Incorporate existing policies/plans into national development and implement

1b: Develop/strengthen weak/non-existant policies/plans in national development and implement

1c: Multi-stakeholder involvement in building local capacity and implementing policies/plans

2a: Take into account the links between water and climate change and develop solutions for adaptation

2b: Address critical development challenges, particularly food security, urbanisation and conflict resolution

2c: Objective and incisive intellectual contributions from GWP and its partners

3a: Knowledge dissemination to global entities and the corporate world

3b: Stakeholders have better access to relevant and practicalknowledge and capacity to share

3c: Communications culture embedded across the Partnership and stakeholderstake up strategic information and messages

4a: Strengthen the capacity of RWPs sot hey are more effective, and provide support to the CWPs

4b: GWPO and RWPs improve organisation, management and governance

4c: GWPO, RWPsand CWPs access new and diverse funding and increase traditional funding sources

Vision:…a water secure world

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What is an “operational strategy”?

1. How we implement our Strategy in achieving food security?

what did we, in 2008 say we would do?

2. How we build on our strengths to address our strategic challenges?

3. How we take advantage of the opportunities – in working with others?

4. How we carve out our “niche”?

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Achieving Food Security:what did we say in 2008 we would do?

• “GWP will work with the CGIAR system, particularly with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) to facilitate adoption of the recommendations emerging from the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture and the Challenge Programme on Water and Food (2007).”

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What does the Comprehensive Assessment say?

• “…there is enough land, water, and human capacity to produce food for a growing population over the next 50 years…

• …IF we act NOW to improve water use and management in agriculture…”

• CA recommends 8 policy actions… • http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/assessment/

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CA’s Recommended Policy Actions:1. Change the way we think about water and agriculture

2. Fight poverty by improving access to agricultural water and its use

3. Manage agriculture to enhance ecosystem services

4. Increase the productivity of water

5. Upgrade rainfed systems – a little water can go a long way

6. Adapt yesterday’s irrigation to tomorrow’s needs

7. Reform the reform process – targeting institutions

8. Deal with tradeoffs and make difficult choices

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What are the “opportunities”?• Policy actions are already identified ref. the Comprehensive Assessment!!• Recognition that integrated approaches

(i.e. IWRM) are in fact the “best” way to manage water and related resources – to address the water-food-energy nexus

• The strengths of key allies: working together to create synergies: 1 + 1 = more than 2!

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What are the “opportunities”?

• The challenge of food production in a world with increasing population constrained by limited land and freshwater resources

• Recognition that existing hierarchical business models have limitations in delivering results – GWP is unique

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What are our “strengths”?• GWP is a ”Network” - not a hierarchy:

– voluntary association – working together on the basis of a social contract our “core values”

– fluid and organic not always easily predictable

– informal structuring of relationships to share knowledge and information

– we can do things other organisations cannot

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What are our “strengths”?

• GWP has a ”neutral platform”– our ability to bring multiple, sometimes

competing, sectors together• Global and regional technical leadership:

– Technical Committee– GWP ToolBox– Regional knowledge platforms

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Possible activities and outcomes:

1. Policy processes strengthening the links between water and land management though IWRM strategies and plans decision-making processes

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Possible activities and outcomes:

2. Advocacy the CA talks about “changing the way we think about water and agriculture”…. GWP advocates integrated – IWRM - processes

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Possible activities and outcomes:

3. Linking research to application:

e.g. synergies with the CGIAR CRP5 on water, land and ecosystems.

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Possible activities and outcomes:

4. Financing promoting IWRM strategies and plans to “set the stage” for investments by IFIs (e.g. World Bank, IFAD, etc.) and others in national and regional water management and development activities

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Possible activities and outcomes:

5. Linking food security and climate change adaptation: investments in land and water

management and development…are ‘no regrets’ investments that also

increase resilience to climatic variability

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Win-win opportunities with key allies:

• How can we build on our “strengths” and those of our key allies–and develop “synergies”?

• Help us to carve out our ”niche” together in “achieving food security”!

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