The CPWF Big Picture

The Challenge Program on Water and Food Big Picture Assumptions, givens, strategic choices Alain VIDAL, Basin Leader Meeting Laos, 19. Jan. 2011

Global food crisis:a poverty “countdown” 3 billion poor below US$2.5/day 2 billion suffer from malnutrition 1 billion suffer from hunger  75% of them are rural poor  Alleviating hunger means reducing rural poverty Reducing rural poverty  Increase the income of the rural poor to enable investment  Ensure they can cope with short-term and long- term changes

The resilience challenge Food production communities and ecosystems should be able to cope with local and global changes (climate, economy, demography, migrations…), ie become more resilient  Achieved through improved water productivity (more food with less water) together with empowerment, equity, market access, health and ecosystem services3

CPWF aims to increase the resilience of social and ecological systems through better water management for food production Through its broad partnerships, it conducts research that leads to impact on the poor and to policy change4

CPWF Phase 2 (2009-2014)Basins, science, core principles and values

Focusing our strategy – a quizz Why, where and on what do we focus? How long are we supposed to live? What does one basin development program cost? How many partners does it include?

Six basin development challenges Andes – Benefit-sharing mechanisms Ganges – Floods and salt in the Delta Limpopo – Small reservoirs, rainwater and livelihoods Mekong – Dams and livelihoods Nile – Rainwater management in Ethiopia Volta – Small reservoirs, rainwater and livelihoods

Cross-basin science Topic working groups  Multiple-uses  Resilience  Learning to innovate  Global drivers  Others Fed by and informing research done in basins  Progressively established in 2010-11

How we work Guided by core principles:  working in partnership  adaptive management  capacity development  gender and interdisciplinary integration  accountability Linking research to impact through compelling basin development challenges and ‘outcome pathways’ Seeking insight across projects and basins

In other words… Projects contribute to achieving the BDC - hence should adhere to core principles Basin focus but mechanisms in place to ensure cross basin learning - TWGs Our whole Program Team in place to make integrated process work Ability to scale up, replicate, influence and contribute to policy change10

Where do we stand? Assets and opportunities

Engaging decision-makers andmarketing Phase 1 outcomes CPWF Learning Events at World Bank and IFPRI Basin stakeholder visits in the Andes and the Nile Stockholm World Water Week

Marketing outcomes from Phase 1The major effort to utilize Phase 1 outcomes isthrough Phase 2Continuous flow of Phase 1 legacy outputsBFP special issues, book and high-level science paperScience synthesis and evidence-based papersStrategic engagement with the media (films, print)Sourcebook for development professionalsJoint IFAD-CPWF initiative on  Research into Use (5 Phase 1 projects)  Mainstreaming innovation (19 Phase 1 projects)

Operationalizing Phase 2 - BDCs EoIs approved Proposal development workhop Jan 2011 Operational Operational Operational 90% operational 2 1

Operationalizing Phase 2 - Program

Basins to engage withdecision-makers and donors World Bank and other major global players to be invited to basin key events  Link with program-level Fund raising at basin level  Basin- or activity-specific  Not for a 2nd BDC  Any fund raised by CPWF is supposed to benefit CRP5  Needs to be reflected upon from 2012 with the perspective of a basin exit strategy

CPWF website and communication

MT responsibilities andcommunications rules MT basin lead persons  Boru: Ganges, Limpopo and Nile  Larry: Andes, Mekong  Sophie (AD): Volta – plus TWG Full responsibilities of budget envelopes  Boru – Innovation and Impact (incl. KM & publications)  Larry – Science  Sophie (AD) - Topic Working Groups Program internal communications  MT skype e-meeting every other Thursday  E-mail: 1 idea – 1 title – 1 screen

Integration into CRP5Changing a threat into an opportunity

« Full integration v1 » intoCRP5 on Land, Water and Ecosystems R4D portfolio, program/basin teams maintained until early 2014 Contribution to CRP5 design, objectives and « best bets » Irrigation Resource Recovery River Basins Ecosystems Rainfed Pastoral Information Systems

A science integration learning fromCPWF A new Advisory Committee taking over CSC functions, guiding our science and being the core of the future CRP5’s AC CPWF role to better articulated in CRP5 Start from present writing and build the justification for effective integration as a way of strengthening CRP5 - in practice test our BDC approach on 1-2 regional hubs

A governance integrationserving the program’s continuity CPWF, its teams and its brand will continue to exist until 2014 CPWF’s interests protected by AC Once CRP5 is approved and launched  IWMI and CPWF board amalgamated  JVA dissolved  CPWF Director member of CRP5 Steering Committee, Management Committee and IWMI MT

An important reminder As a partnership program aiming at alleviating poverty, we should constantly look for  Increasing our efficiency – be firm on decisions and avoid ineffective debates on processes and detail issues  Building alliances rather than walls23

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