cpwf 6 month progress report april 2012
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Presentation of CPWF 6-month progress report made in Vientiane on 21 April 2012 before the IWMI Board Program CommitteeTRANSCRIPT
CPWF Science Progress ReportNovember 2011 – April 2012
Alain Vidal, CPWF Director
Outline
3rd International Forum on Water and Food
Developing science and messages influencing the global agenda
Early results from our six basins
IFWF3 highlights – the story CPWF is all about evidence but
must do more to ensure quality evidence is made available
CPWF needs to maintain its relevance and accessibility for a way beyond the science community
Gender matters – more needed
Young Professionals need real recognition
CPWF is rooted in the local –sincerely global
CPWF in Africa
300+ participants
Research partners, decision makers, donors, media
Mesh of Basin, TWG, local-to-global, global-to-local
Global social media and traditional media coverage
Interactive, dynamic and innovative
Federating
Closing of the gaps between science – development – policy
IFWF3 – the real story
Multitude of case studies
Evidence emerging from all projects
Wide buy-into a model for carrying out AR4D
Real challenge from insiders-outsiders to step up to the challenge of demonstrating the evidence and taking the space offered at the policy table
CPWF able to ask itself tough questions, bring in external view, extend its partnerships
New CPWF messagesOverall message: Despite challenges in many river basins, overall the planet has enough water to meet the full range of people’s and ecosystems’ needs for the foreseeable future, but equity will only be achieved through judicious and creative management.
Message 1. Wise use of our water resources for strengthening (rural) livelihoods and ecosystem services requires simultaneously using it more productively and sharing water and its benefits more equitably.
Message 2. Higher water productivity and greater social equity can be obtained only through a radical in change of policies and institutional arrangements in both developed and developing nations.
Message 3. The CPWF R4D strategy identified and promotes the policy, institutional and technological innovations required in developing countries for people to increase water productivity and ecosystem services in an equitable and sustainable manner.
Very good echo in recent major global events: WWF6, PUP 2012
Andes: Benefit-sharing mechanisms and their low hanging fruits
Trust funds and local dialogues established
Upstream ecosystems restored
Benefits downstream through improved pastures supporting community dairy production
Consolidating Andes experience as a world-laboratory on BSMs
Scaling out in Uganda and Nepal
Ganges: Freshwater storage for improved livelihoods in polders
Well managed short duration aman rice varieties double yield
Improving local institutions to ensure hardware maintenance and improvement
Key to use stored water to
stabilize rainy season production
intensify and diversify dry season production
Limpopo: Rainwater management and value chains
Strengthen agricultural value chains where market-related failures contribute to poverty
Success of community innovation platforms depends on trust among the actors and sufficient incentives
Appropriate technologies must fit existing livelihood systems and include socially acceptable incentives
Mekong: Hydropower and livelihoods
Techniques, land and water uses identified that can increase benefits available to riparian communities
Fish-rice systems
Artificial wetlands in reservoirs
Add value for both dam builders and communities
Dialogue processes identified institutional weaknesses in the ways regulations are implemented
Nile: Rainwater management and landscapes
Rainwater management interventions to target landscapes, linking bio-physical drivers with socio-economic factors
Suitability map considering key limiting factors: erosion, rainfall regimes, soil fertility and enterprise choices
Development of innovation platforms in 3 different landscapes
Volta: Rainwater and small reservoirs
Identified successes (soil-water conservation, small reservoirs, and small pumps) and failures (culture and gender-sensitivity)
Integration of maintenance costs in project budgets and capacity building of actors (mostly farmers)
Resilience analysis helps evaluate common threads driving or limiting innovations
Thank you