A landscape Approach to Rainwater Management in Ethiopia:
Nile 5 – Coordination and Platforms
Tilahun Amede, CPWF Nile Basin Coordinator
Nile Basin Development Challenge Launch Workshop, Addis Ababa, 29 September 2010
Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC)
• Understanding the causes and its consequences of low rainwater productivity;
• Innovations for improving rainwater management systems; critically required for poverty alleviation, addressing vulnerability and reducing resources degradation in the Nile River basin.
• NBDC research will focus on the Ethiopian highlands and will examine the interrelated issues of rainwater management;
i) Crop and livestock production and productivity;ii) Managing rainfall variability, iii) Minimizing land degradation and downstream siltation of
water storage infrastructure;iv) Resilient communities and systems that will manage climatic
and market shocks
Improvement through well-targeted combinations of new technologies, policies and institutions, understanding of downstream & cross-scale consequences, facilitating learning, collective action, commitment to change
• Nile 1: On learning from the past;• Nile 2: On integrated rainwater management
strategies – technologies, institutions and policies;
• Nile 3: On targeting and scaling out• Nile 4: On assessing and anticipating
consequences of innovation• Nile 5: Nile Coordination and platfoms
Nile Basin Leaderi. Managing and leading the Coordination Project
ii. Oversees and coordinates the implementation of the four CPWF-supported research programs designed to help tackle pressing BDC; RMS
iii. Ensure coherence and integration of the overall BDC research;
iv. Linking, complementing and motivating a wider movement made up of people, initiatives and organizations who are also working towards addressing the BDC;
v. Together with the CPWF M&E team coordinating BDC M&E and impact assessment
vi. Enabling learning, partnerships and impact
vii.Facilitating cross-scale innovation and knowledge
Nile 2 outputs. (Landscape scale technologies, policies and institutions; innovations)
Nile 3. Targeting and up-scaling
Mapping, targeting, up-scaling of bio-physical and institutional interventions affecting RWM strategies
Blanket approaches
Evaluation of scenario’s of best-bet practices
Dissemination / adoption / modification / useof Best Practices for Improving Rainwater productivity in Ethiopian highlands
Nile 4: On assessing and anticipating consequences of innovation
Evidence Impact at various levels Downstream effects Upstream effects Policy and institutional shift Economic and social consequences
4. Innovation Capacity Building and Dissemination4.1 Capacity Building4.2 Dissemination
3. Analysis of water productivity savings3.1Green Blue Water Accounting3.2 Analysis of productivity savings3.2 Analysis of waterlogged savings
2. Analysis of best land use systems2.1 Crop and livestock productivity through RMS2.3 LLH analysis2.4 Economic analysis
1. Information on the likely cross-scale consequences1.1 Synthesis of existing knowledge1.2 Develop tools and methods for biophysical1.3 Policy and institutional consequences
Nile 5 objectives
1. Ensure that synergies, lessons and interactions between the other four Nile BDC projects are fully exploited so that the whole is greater than the sum;
2. Contributing to wider efforts to improve rural livelihoods and their resilience through facilitating rainwater management systems in the Blue Nile basin
Coordination project is organized around three outputs
I: Impact pathways and governance structures for effective management, monitoring and evaluation of the Nile BDC projects
a. Focuses on the development, use, monitoring and adaptation of IP to ensure projects have a forum for interaction and adjustment
II: Networks for Innovation for improved RWM in the Nile basin strengthened:
a. Use innovation approaches first to map networks of present and desired actors and their interactions, develop plans for engaging and influencing them;
III: Effective Communication, documentation and synthesis for RWM developed and used:
a. Ensuring that all partners within the five projects as well as other similar initiatives access and benefit from the information as it is generated. It also ensures higher level synthesis of lessons and processes relevant to the broader BDC and wider scaling up and out of RWM strategies.
Linkages
Sub-regional
Landscape
Farm level
ImpactLearning
Innovationfacilitation
Communication
Nile 5.Coordinati
on, platforms
Nile 4. Consequences, impact, tradeoffs
Nile 2. Innovatio
ns, technologi
es , practices
Nile 3. Mapping, targeting
. Upscalin
g
Nile 1. Inventory
and synthesis
Linkages
Rationale for gender within the Nile Basin Research Agenda
• Women’s important roles in crop and livestock production
• Potential positive and negative impacts on RWM interventions on women’s labour and time allocation, roles and responsibilities
• Different priorities for water use between men and women, need to understand and integrate in the NBDC projects
• Understand different roles of men and women in order to more effectively target interventions / information
• Communication strategies to reach women;
• Indicators to monitor processes and impacts on households but also on men and women
Possible areas of gender integrationCharacterization Integrate gender questions e.g on management of water
resources, priority uses for rain water, gendered rolesWhen and where appropriate, carry out specific gender analysis studies
Implementation Use results of analysis of characterization to target activities, interventions, information
Research Msc/MA students to focus on specific gender research questions as identified by project teams
What are the gendered constraints to rain water management and adoption of rain water management technologies in the basin?What are the labour, cost, management issues around RWM technologies and how do these vary be gender?What is the impact of adoption of RWM technologies on women?
Monitoring and evaluation
Integrate gender indicators in monitoring and evaluationDisaggregate existing indicators, milestones by gender as appraises
Partnership
We will have two different types of partners:
1) those who will be directly engaged in the project and share the responsibilities and also the funds;
2) those who form the wider network, for whom partnership adds value to what they are already doing in addressing resources degradation and poverty, and will participate in consultations and as targets for influence
Those who will be directly engaged :
• ILRI and IWMI• Bureaus of Agriculture and Rural Development • EIAR, ARARI, OARI• Catholic Relief Services (CRS)• Ethiopian Economic Association (EEA).
Policy makers from the regions of Amhara, Tigray and Oromia will be also invited to specify key issues and policy scenarios to be investigated by the project.
Output 1. IP, M&E (With All) • Participatory M&E framework will be used to monitor and evaluate
progress and make adjustments across projects.
• Generic indicators against which the activities and expected results will be measured as well as guidance on sources of baseline information, monitoring tools, roles and responsibilities as well as on the frequency of monitoring;
• Development of common reporting formats allowing teams to better share lessons
• Schedules for project specific evaluations will be agreed and evaluation studies on cross cutting issues including gender, social preferences will be jointly carried out under the leadership of the coordination project.
• Capacity building (inc gender, M&E) will be built both into the whole
co-ordination and project implementation, individual activities based on a needs assessment.
Linkages with other NBDC projects
Output 2, Innovation research
• Identifying existing actors and networks in the basin. Characterize them according to competencies (providers of knowledge, resources, facilitation skills, political capital) and scale at which they operate (with Nile 2 & Nile 3);
• Partnership and networking to share information, and links with multiple partners who could significantly contribute to wider dissemination efforts (with Nile 2, Nile 3 and Nile 4);
• Building and strengthening networks, platforms and organizational skills (Nile 3 and Nile 4)
Output 3, Communication, synthesis
BDC level and individual project level communication and uptake strategies (Nile BDC all);
Inventory and analysis of the existing communication strategies, extension and scaling-up approaches and identifying success cases, where, how and which RWM interventions were effectively adopted and promoted (Nile 2 and Nile 3);
Develop tools and methods for up scaling RWM products, identify channels required and the mechanisms of delivery for specific stakeholder groups (Nile 3)
N2 – on Integrated rainwater management strategies –
technologies, institutions and policies (design and testing)
N3 – on targeting and
scaling out
N4 – On assessing and anticipating consequences of
innovation
•Site selection, site similarity analysis,
new prototypes from similarity
areas
•Information on why some approaches to rainwater management have failed while others have succeeded
•Conditions favoring success
•Information on the scale consequences of widespread use of innovation strategies
•Define innovation scenarios to be
modeled
N1 – on learning from
the past (consultancy)
•Redesign of and re-testing of integrated
rainwater management
strategies
•Information on important drivers of change
•Best-bet or optimal livelihood strategies for promotion/ advocacy/
informing policy
•Extrapolation domain analysis
N5 – stakeholder platforms;
informing policy; fostering change
Feedback demand / Options
Feedback on adoption-rejection
Feedback fears/ real consequences
Target groups
Changing practices Our strategy
NBDC R4D team
•Align and adjust activities to NBDC agenda and approaches
•Joint workplans and adjust•M&E framework for facilitation and adjustments
Development actors
(extension, NGOs)
•Employ evidence-based planning•Promote and use effective RWMs
•Participatory planning•Sharing good practices•Roundtable engagement•Capacity building•Platforms
Policy makers •Develop and institutionalize RWMs•Capacity to communicate and use
•Joint visioning of gaps•Institutional platforms•Discussion forums•Policy briefs / media
Regional partners
•Effective commitment to NBDC priorities
•Assessment tools •Reflection workshops•Jointly produced publications
Thank you !
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