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NILE BASIN DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGE
Presented at Stakeholder meeting in Lima
June 3, 2013
Alan Duncan
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The Challenge: Improved rainwater management
• The Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) Program aims to improve the resilience of rural livelihoods in the Ethiopian highlands through a landscape approach to rainwater management (RWM).
• “Rainwater management” refers to interventions to enable smallholder farmers to sustainably intensify agricultural production through improved rainwater management.
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Context: The Ethiopian Highlands
• Densely populated• High levels of poverty and food insecurity• Rudimentary infrastructure• Until recently declining per capita food production.
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The Water Tower of Africa
• 85% of the flow in the Nile Basin at Aswan Dam originates from the Ethiopian Highlands
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Rapid land degradation
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Expansion of cultivation
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Cultivation of steep slopes
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Rainwater Management in the Ethiopian Highlands: History
• From the 1980s, a good understanding on the effectiveness of different RWM technologies to sustainably intensify production
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Bunds
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Check dams
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Gully rehabilitation
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Ponds
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But … difficult to translate knowledge into success on the ground
Why?
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Why….?• Authoritarian top-down quota-driven
implementation • Promotion of inappropriate technologies• Insufficient focus on improving productivity and
livelihoods and on creating incentives for adopting and maintaining the interventions.
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Government campaigns
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Destruction by farmers of previous interventions
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NBDC: An Emerging R4D Success Story
• Field level• Innovation platforms• Participatory planning tools
• Basin and landscape level• Nile Goblet tool
• Policy level• National platform
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Innovation Platforms (IPs).
Soil and water conservation technologies
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Or...
Why Innovation Platforms?
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Innovation Platforms
NBDC
Local Research
NGO
Private sector
District extension
District water
District admin
Lead farmers
Distric
t offic
es
NBDC research
outputs
National
research
Indigenous knowledge
Business ideas
CommComm
Comm
Action 1
Act
ion
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Action 3
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Participatory planning and learning tools – Wat-a-Game
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Nile Goblet Tool
Suitability mapping of rainwater management strategies
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National RWM Stakeholder Platform
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Emerging messages from NBDC• Local community empowerment and leadership
based on demand, equity and inclusiveness;• Partnerships integrating and sharing local and
scientific knowledge; • Emphasis on learning process by all parties in a
linked manner;• Creating incentives and risk management
mechanisms for innovation and success;• Transforming the institutional and human
capacities of all stakeholders; and• Adapting and using new learning and planning
tools.