Working towards “out-scaling

strategies” for WLI technologies

WLI Socio-Economic Thematic GroupBezaiet Dessalegn

The overall goal of WLI is to improve the livelihoods of rural households and communities, through the development and pilot testing of integrated water, land, and livelihood strategies on selected benchmark sites for scaling out

• Impact pathways and theories of change

• Willingness to adopt WLI promoted technologies

• Revise the logical framework (regional and national level)

Working towards out-scaling WLI promoted technologies

Impact Pathways and Theories of Change

Regional Workshop on "Catalyzing Change through the Impact Pathway and Theories of Change", 15-17 April 2014, Amman

NCARE and UF 14 participants from 7 countries

Country

Improved technologies or management practices

Egypt irrigation water scheduling, soil improvement, raised-bed technology

Iraq deficit irrigation, surface and subsurface drip irrigation, greenhouses, organic fertilizers and amino acids, livestock and forage production, use of saline water to grow maize

Jordan Introduction and evaluation of drought resistant shrubs, water harvesting using continuous and intermittent contour ridges with Vallerani, water spreading (marabs), terraces, cisterns for family use, and planting of different species of barley in Marabs, as well as different varieties of vetch, safflower, and shrubs.

Lebanon

water harvesting - najarims, conservation agriculture, good agricultural practices - IPM, deficit irrigation, introduction of new varieties (wheat, barley, and chickpeas, grape, apricot, cactus) and local grape varieties

Palestine

Silage, hydroponics, introduction of native plant species and drought resistant wheat and barley, water harvesting (terraces, semi-circle bund and eye brow)

Syria Deficit irrigation using drip irrigation to grow sorghum, integrated crop-livestock production, supplemental irrigation to grow medicinal crops for income generation, water accounting for the Orontes River

Tunisia supplemental irrigation, deficit irrigation, water harvesting, soil and water conservation, alley cropping, and zero tillage

Yemen supplemental irrigation for spate irrigated sesame, lipid forage

WLI promoted technologies and strategies

Regional Comparative Study on Willingness to Adopt selected technologies

Countries Technologies

Egypt Raised bed

Iraq Sub-surface irrigation

Jordan Marab

Lebanon Conservation Ag.

Palestine Silage production

Tunisia Deficit irrigation for citrus production

Iraq: white Agralic screen (Agral 17) to improving the Cucumber production Under

Greenhouse

Assessing Perceptions & Constraints

Objective: Improve technology dissemination strategies and approaches that promote adoption of proven water and land management technologies by identifying researcher, extension, and farmer- based perceptions and constraints.

Additional support from MEAS

Assess farmers’ perceptions of, and exposure to, the technology

Assess researchers’ perceptions of technology development and existing dissemination strategy

Assess extension agents’ perspective on existing technology dissemination strategies

Identify potential challenges and opportunities for adoption by farmers including gender-based constraints

Initiate dialogue between extension agents and researchers for good practices that can accelerate adoption rates

Develop new and effective technology dissemination strategies with regional applicability.

Specific objectives

Progress to date and plans for 2015

2014 2015

Teams identified Data collection and analysis

Funding secured Final workshop

Questionnaire designed and translated

Write up

• Jenn from UF ready to go out to the sites immediately

Secure additional funding

M&E -WLI Logical Framework

Designed in 2009

Revisit the expected outputs and outcomes

Identify appropriate verifiable indicators

Develop revised framework

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