The Agri-water Share Fair was held on the 3rd February 2011 on the ILRI Campus, Ethiopia. It was organised by the International Water Management Institute with support from Peter Ballantyne, ILRI and Nadia Manning-Thomas, CGIAR ICT-KM/ILRI.

1. 03/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair Date: Thursday 3rd February 2011 Location: Large Auditorium, ILRI Campus, Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA Organised by: International Water Management Institute, supported by Peter Ballantyne, ILRI KMIS and facilitated by Nadia Manning-Thomas, CGIAR ICT-KM Program Agri-Water Mini Share Fair:Project presentations (10) Note: All information and images in the following presentations are all from the projects that participated in the Agri-WaterShare Fair. Credit should be given to those projects.

2. Funder: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Lead organisation: IWMI Key partners: FAO, SEI, IFPRI, IDE, CH2MHill Budget: 7.3 million Duration: 3 years i. Project Title: AWM Solutions project 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

3. 1. Map your project’s geographical focus Ghana, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Tanzania & Zambia India: Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair Country & intervention focus: * Small reservoirs * On-farm water harvesting structures * Individual motorpumps * Electrification * Treadle pumps

4. 2. What is your project trying to achieve Identify promising Ag Water Management solutions Research them through case studies Map suitability and model possible impacts (+/-) of outscaling Write compelling business cases for uptake by relevant actors Longterm impact: Increase in investments in agricultural water management for smallholders (f/m) Better quality investments increasing likelihood of successful uptake by smallholders (f/m) 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

5. 3. What approach(es) is your project using? How is your project trying to achieve its objectives? Developing evidence based business models. What is the project doing? Dialogue process with stakeholders Dialogue with the donor Case studies (surveys, secondary data) Suitability domains (GIS modeling) Impact modeling (SWAT – DREAM) What tools/vehicles is it using? Active Steering Committee & Ambassadors Dialogue Slide decks 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

6. 4. Who is the project working with and for? Stakeholders: BMGF and other donors, Government agencies involved in AWM (ministries of agriculture, water or irrigation departments), NGOs Target groups: donors, investors Ultimate beneficiaries: smallholder farmers (f/m) 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

7. 5. Your project’s Unique Selling Points Provide TWO (2) things that your project is good at Evidence based (!) solutions and business models Dialogue with key stakeholders throughout the project Tell us ONE (1) thing that your project is struggling with or is a challenge for your project Converting a set of complex information captured in researchy language into a simple slick message appealing to demanding donors and high level policy makers 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

8. Funder: IFAD Lead organisation: IWMI Key partners: IFAD & other donors, local partners / universities Budget: 1.2 million Duration: 3 years ii. Project Title: AWM in Challenging contexts 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

9. 1. Map your project’s geographical focus Nepal: Western region Sri Lanka: East Ghana: North Burkina: South Ethiopia 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

10. 2. What is your project trying to achieve Provide guidance for implementing AWM in challenging contexts (post war, weak institutions, recent decentralization) Longterm impact: Successful investments in AWM that are adapted to the institutional context and that benefit smallholder farmers 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

11. 3. What approach(es) is your project using? How is your project trying to achieve its objectives? INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS: CASE STUDIES & NATIONAL CONTEXT Analyze the institutional context in which AWM interventions take place Analyze AWM interventions and factors leading to their success or the lack thereof Does the institutional context fit the project design, implementation and management? Given the challenging institutional context how can AWM implementation be improved What is the project doing? Research & dialogue What tools/vehicles is it using? Contextual analysis & case studies 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair + - + local macro -

12. 4. Who is the project working with and for? Stakeholders: IFAD (CPM, project implementation level) and other donors & organizations working in AWM implementation, similar research projects Target groups: donors, investors Ultimate beneficiaries: smallholder farmers (f/m) 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

13. 5. Your project’s Unique Selling Points Provide TWO (2) things that your project is good at Focus on institutional context across scales: from local to national Objective solid evidence from the field Tell us ONE (1) thing that your project is struggling with or is a challenge for your project Creative and effective outreach 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

14. Funder: GTZ/BMZ Lead organisation: IWMI Key partners: Ghana: ISSER, WRI Ethiopia: EEA, AMU, Germany: PIK, ZEF Budget: 1.2 million eurosDuration: 2008-2011 iii. Rethinking water storage for adaptation to climate change in sub-Saharan Africa 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

15. 1. Geographical focus 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair Volta basin watersheds Vea (Yaragagna) – Saata – Golinga Blue Nile basin watersheds Koga – Gumara – Indris

16. 2. Objective 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair Key Research Question How can climate change be built into the planning and management of water storage? Achievement Contribution to planning storage options that ensure optimal adaptation to CC-induced impacts on water availability in SSA

18. HH surveys

20. Hydrological Modeling (SWAT)

21. Water Resource Modeling (WEAP) Evaluation framework/metrics to assist in planning and management of storage Guidelines “how” (i.e. method) to build CC into decision-making processes for storage Water and Agriculture Share Fair 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA

23. State bodies (Ministry of Water Resources in Ethiopia, VBA Ghana)

24. Public and private funding agencies (NGOs etc)Beneficiaries farmers and others that depend on water storage to support their livelihoods

26. Anthropological research Struggling with: Outreach – linking to relevant government personnel and others http://africastorage-cc.iwmi.org/

27. iv. Nile, Volta and Limpopo Basin Development Challenges Funder: Challenge Program Water and Food Lead organisation: Mulitple Key partners: Many Budget: 4 – 7 M per basin. Duration:2010 - 2013 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

28. 1. Map your project’s geographical focus Blue Nile Basin – Ethiopian Highlands Volta Basin – Northern Ghana and Burkina Faso Limpopo Basin – Mozambique, Southern Zimbabwe, Limpopo province, South Africa 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

29. 1. Geographical focus: Nile basin, Ethiopia 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

30. 2. What is your project trying to achieve 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair Improved management of rainwater in landscapes to benefit people

32. ‘Landscape’ approach

33. Livelihood, hydrology/water productivity and ecosystem indexing and modeling for impact evaluation/prediction at various scales

34. Strong partnership; range of partners across scales, larger network and linkages

35. Interdisciplinary research; team work and institutions

36. Capacity building; mentoring, facilitating

37. Innovation for action, communication, adaptive management 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

38. 4. Who is the project working with and for? 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

39. 5. Unique Selling Points 2 things that your project is good at Closely working with the national and regional partners to spur widespread innovation, policy influence and institutional strengthening and reform in combination with rainwater management interventions; Cross-basin learning, knowledge sharing and continual communication for adaptive management 1 thing that your project is struggling with Sustaining functional partnership, beyond financial incentives 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

40. Funder: IFAD Lead organisation: IWMI Key partners: IFAD projects, Challenging Contexts, AWM Solutions Budget: $1.5m Duration: June 2010 – December 2013 v. Improved Management of Agricultural Water in Eastern and Southern Africa: IMAWESA 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

41. 1. Map your project’s geographical focus 21 countries in East and Southern Africa Focus countries Ethiopia Tanzania Kenya Rwanda Mozambique Malawi 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

42. 2. What is your project trying to achieve providing knowledge, technical support and capacity building support to enabling decision makers and implementers to make informed choices on AWM. Get pro-poor and gender-equitable AWM into policies, practices, institutions and investments. Poor rural women and men will make better use of natural resources through improved AWM technologies for improved livelihoods. Policies and implementers would be responsive to the needs of extremely poor farmers. Poor farmers are supported to take up AWM solutions. 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

43. 3. What approach(es) is your project using? Networking – work and through partners to shares knowledge from previous and on-going research. Currently - identifying the needs of its partners and collaborators to support capacity building and learning. A key tool - establishing learning alliances across countries for knowledge sharing and learning. Begin with focus countries. 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

44. 4. Who is the project working with and for? Stakeholders: Policy makers and implementers of IFAD-supported projects and programs. Implementers of AWM projects supported by governments and development partners, NGOs, CBOs. Private and public investors in AWM. Local community leaders. Researchers. Target groups: extreme poor rural women and men. Beneficiaries: All programs and projects in ESA with an AWM component, particularly those that target the extreme poor. 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

45. 5. Your project’s Unique Selling Points Strengths: Capacity building in AWM and in knowledge sharing skills, and knowledge sharing platform. Challenge: Operationalizing a strong learning alliance to generate and share knowledge in a way that responds to our target group needs, is participatory and inclusive and increases the use of research outputs. 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

46. Funder: IFAD Lead organisation: IWMI (admin) / WaterWatch (technical) Key partners: IWMI / WaterWatch / Basfood / DLV-Plant Budget: 1.8 million $ Duration: 30 months vi. Project Title: Smart ICT Information and Advice for Farming in Africa 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

47. 1. Map your project’s geographical focus Egypt (delta – traditional; desert – modern) Sudan (Gash spate irrigation) Ethiopia (Rift Valley; Gambella) Mali 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

48. 2. What is your project trying to achieve Awareness of ICT opportunities in agriculture, including weather and water management Which type of data being considered most useful Which type of media being considered most useful WHAT TO BE ACHIEVED ? People using cell phones to enhance agricultural production, crop water productivity (livelihoods and environment) 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

49. 3. What approach(es) is your project using? user needs assessments , demonstration projects, participatory development, iterative progress Provide weekly (if needed daily) data on weather, crops, river flow and soil moisture to range of stakeholders Satellite measurements, web-based services, text messages, pictures on smart phones 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

50. 4. Who is the project working with and for? Stakeholders: National Agricultural Research Centers, local agricultural extension officers, Target groups: farmers, farmer cooperatives, out growers, WUA, irrigation districts, basin planners Beneficiaries: - Farmers (small holder, out growers, commercial) - government (planning and monitoring) - Companies (cell phone industry, data communication providers, fertilizers) 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

52. Transparency on resources managementCHALLENGE: - Not all beneficiaries having access to water and fertilizers 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

53. Funder: IFAD/UNESCO-IHE/ WB/ others Convenors: UNESCO-IHE/ MetaMeta Country networks: Yemen (WEC), Pakistan (SPO, PARC), Sudan (MoWR), Ethiopia (OWRB, HU) Budget: 1.6 M USD (next 4 years) Duration: started in 2005, for a long time vii. Spate Irrigation Network 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

54. 1.Geographical focus of SpN The well-known spate areas (Pakistan, Iran, North Africa, Horn, Yemen) The unknown spate areas (Afghanistan, Central Asia, Latin America) – exploring All flood based farming areas 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

55. 2. What isthe Spate Irrigation Networktrying to achieve Better practice, better livelihoods in the spate areas ‘Spate irrigation for poverty alleviation and rural growth’ 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

56. 3. What approach(es) isthe Spate Irrigation Network using? What is the Network doing? Develop and expand the network Innovations from country to country Capacity building Support to IFAD projects Approach>> Engagement - drawing on practioners and network members Explictly working on linking with farmers Outputs> there is much low hanging fruit Using local languages 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

57. 4. Who is the Network working with and for? Practioners, members = 450 and focus: Program developers working in the spate areas Policy holders (policy notes) Develop direct links with farmers/ WUAs Universities (mainstreaming in education) MSc students (small documentation grants 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

58. 5.SpN’sUnique Selling Points USP Network – not organization of project – has long term perspective Open source sharing Focus on practicals and do-ables Challenge Avoiding that investment programs remain business as usual 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

59. viii. Project Title: TheWaterChannel www.thewaterchannel.tv Funder: UNESCO-IHE/IFAD/Cap-Net/UNESCO-IHP Lead organisation: MetaMeta & Nymphaea Key partners: UNESCO-IHE/IFAD/Cap-Net / UNESCO-IHP Budget: (2011) 150,000 euro Duration: launched in 2009 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

60. 1. Our geographical focus Visitors from www.thewaterchannel.tv are from all over the world! 185 countries (top 20 of the 1st year) 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

61. 2. TheWaterChannel wants to achieve.. TheWaterChannel wants to be the main outlet for stimulating debate. Not only within the water sector, but also outside! TheWaterChannel wants to achieve this by providing fast learning, be an open source for practical and inspiring learning, bring water on many unexpected agenda’s and trigger discussions. The emphasis is on making information available that is low threshold, that inspires and informs to act Be part of a wave moving towards better water management! 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

62. 3. Our approaches Online and offline promotion campaigns Use social media (facebook, twitter, linkedin) Link with educational programs General content management > expanding video database 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

63. 4. TheWaterChannel works with and for… Together with our core team (UNESCO-IHE, Cap-Net, IFAD) and several other organizations TheWaterChannel addresses a large audience; students, specialists – everyone who wants to make a change! Providing open source approach everyone can contribute Special targeted projects (Laboratory tests, DVD package, water management in Ethiopia, water harvesting videos) 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

64. 5. TheWaterChannel’s USPs Implement new projects quickly (DVD package, live streaming, develop materials) The largest water related video collection Challenge: engage much more with people from outside the water world 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair Join the wave at www.thewaterchannel.tv More info: lenneke.knoop@thewaterchannel.tv

65. Funder: CPWF phase 1, Danida, FAO, WSSCC, various Lead organisation: Global MUS Group Key partners: 14 core partners (IFAD, FAO, CG, Winrock, IRC, others) and 350+ individual members Budget: CPWF phase 1: USD1.6 million Duration: since 2004 ix. Project Title: Community-driven multiple-use water services 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

66. Project’s geographical focus :a) CPWF phase 1: 30 sites in 8 countries (see map)b) Danida: five countries SADCc) MUS Group: global 4 5 3 1 2 Mekong (Thailand) Nile (Ethiopia) Andes (Colombia & Bolivia) 3 1 5 Indus-Ganges (India & Nepal) Limpopo (Zimbabwe & South Africa) 4 2

67. 2. What is your project trying to achievegoal and outputs Goal: realizing the shared vision: “all people receiving water services for multiple uses, especially in informal, agriculture-based settings, to achieve all MDGs and Human Rights” Outputs: Evidence-based knowledge generation and pilot-testing and capacity building on HOW TO do community-driven multiple-use water services, so planning and designing water services or rehabilitations: according to people’s own demands and priorities overcoming counterproductive sectoral single-use mindsets including the marginalized gender: often prioritizing domestic uses 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

68. 2. What is your project trying to achieve - outcomes Improving multiple uses, for multiple livelihood benefits according to people’s own priorities (more MDGs and human rights to water, food, health and dignity) Using and re-using multiple sources through multiple shared infrastructure, for more efficient water development and waste management Building on age-old community practice, for more efficiency and sustainability, avoiding damage of unplanned uses Embedding in longer-term community planning and integrated support by local government, for upscaling world-wide

69. 3. Approach of learning alliances, with learning wheels National Flows of knowledge and resources Intermediate Flows of knowledge and resources Community Source: Picoteam 2007; Van Koppen et al 2006/2009

70. 4. Who is the project working with and for? Project partners: CPWF phase 1 CP28 MUS project: project partners: IWMI (lead), IRC, IDE, KhonKaen University Thailand, national research institutes, NGOs, government, constituting learning alliances with 150 institutions in 30 sites in 8 countries and global (e.g. WWF4, WWF5, ICID, Comprehensive Assessment, etc) SADC/Danida: IWRM Demonstration Projects: governments and implementing partners in Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia Global Mus Group: 14 core partners (Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF), Cinara Colombia, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Plan International, PumpAid, RAIN Foundation, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), the Water Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC), Winrock International and the World Fish Center. Over 350 members Target groups: communities, public and private water service providers, policy makers, program managers, international water and development community, financiers, research organizations Beneficiaries: Poor women and men in rural and peri-urban areas 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

71. 5. Your project’s Unique Selling Points Selling points: A concrete solution for all investments in water infrastructure, and if well targeted, the best way to use water for empowering women, the land-poor, disabled and other marginalized A lively global community which is learning rapidly about cost-effective knowledge generation on innovative community-driven multiple-use water services Difficulties Fund raising is difficult, because of the single-water use silos among donors and disciplinary boxes of scientists, and low costs of e.g. the global MUS Group 4/02/2011 ILRI Campus, ETHIOPIA Water and Agriculture Share Fair

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