IWMI/WRC Research Uptake Workshop barbara van koppen IWMI

1. ‘Action Research’
Example: Piloting and Upscaling
of Multiple Use water Services (MUS)
Barbara van Koppen & Stef Smits

2. A water services approach in rural and
peri-urban areas that takes people’s
multiple water needs as starting point of
planning and provision of water services
within public sector mandate of better
using water for poverty alleviation
A solution: a vision of impact
An a priori Theory of Change

3. 1. Structure multi-stakeholder learning alliances (MUS
Group) for exchange/learning, knowledge hub and
repository, strategic advocacy in national (e.g. DWA) and
international forums (e.g., World Water Forums)
2. ‘Projects’ are just building blocks
3. The role of science:
– synthesizing lessons learnt
– identifying hypotheses and
future agendas (‘learning wheels’)
– promoting new implementation
of better solutions
Long-term learning alliances
on ‘why’ and ‘how’

4. • Non-planned water uses happen anyhow:
turn the problem into an opportunity
• Recognize – formalize local practice
• Sub-sectors: Incremental cost-benefit
analysis
• Community-driven planning: ownership and
leveraging indigenous capitals of holistic
self-supply from ecosystems
Science in the ‘why’:
rigorously ‘making the case’

5. • Implementing strategic pilots in
collaboration with champion implementers,
service providers and policy makers:
to make a generic and replicable case
• Upscaling initiatives with different partners:
– through WASH sub-sector;
– through irrigation sub-sector;
– As MUS by design
• Example synthesis: MUS Group: Generic
guidelines for planning and providing
Multiple use water services
• Example ‘learning wheel’ of key principles
Science in the ‘how’ :
piloting and upscaling MUS

6. Ownership and
understanding of
MUS and its
impacts among
national level
stakeholdersCoordination of planning,
implementation and
financing of MUS among
national level
organisations that
enables coordination
among intermediate level
stakeholders
Capacity to support a
learning approach to
MUS among
intermediate level
organisations
National policies,
legislation, norms and
standards allow for
integrated
participatory project
cycles at local and
enabling intermediate
level
National water policies,
legislation, and
implementation
programs allocate
resources to enhance
physical access of the
poor to an equitable
share of water for
multiple uses
Implementing and scaling up
a sustainable, equitable and
effective MUS approach;
principles at national level
for an enabling environment
National water policies
and legislation, and
their enforcement
strategies, enhance
legal access of the
poor to an equitable
share of water for
multiple uses
Ownership and
understanding of
MUS and its
impacts among all
intermediate level
stakeholders
Participatory
project cycles
followed in
implementation
programmes
Resources exist
among
intermediate level
stakeholders to
implement and
upscale MUS
Coordination of
planning,
implementation and
financing among
intermediate level
stakeholders
Capacity to follow
a learning
approach to MUS
among
intermediate level
organisations
Intermediate
level institutions
to support
communities in
operation and
maintenance and
other support to
MUS
Enabling environment for
implementing and scaling up a
sustainable, equitable and
effective MUS approach;
principles at
intermediate/service provider
level
Community
National
Intermediate
Flows of information and communication
Flows of information and communication
Ownership and
understanding
of MUS and its
impact
Proper financial
models
Thorough
understanding of
poor people’s
water-based
livelihoods
Appropriate
technology
Effective and
inclusive
community
institutions
Sustainable use of
available water
resources and
services
Implementing a
sustainable, equitable
and effective MUS
approach for improved
livelihoods- principles to
be addressed in the
different phases of the
project cycle at
community level

7. Ownership and
understanding
of MUS and its
impact
Proper financial
models
Thorough
understanding of
poor people’s
water-based
livelihoods
Appropriate
technology
Effective and
inclusive
community
institutions
Sustainable use
of available water
resources and
services
Implementing a
sustainable, equitable
and effective MUS
approach for improved
livelihoods- principles to
be addressed in the
different phases of the
project cycle at
community level
Community Level

8. Enabling environment at
national level (to be
elaborated in the next
slide)
Ownership and
understanding of
MUS and its
impacts among all
intermediate level
stakeholders
Participatory
project cycles
followed in
implementation
programmes
Resources exist
among
intermediate level
stakeholders to
implement and
upscale MUS
Coordination of
planning,
implementation and
financing among
intermediate level
stakeholders
Capacity to follow
a learning
approach to MUS
among
intermediate level
organisations
Intermediate
level institutions
to support
communities in
operation and
maintenance
and other
support to MUS
Enabling environment for
implementing and scaling up
a sustainable, equitable and
effective MUS approach;
principles at
intermediate/service provider
level
Intermediate Level

9. Ownership and
understanding of
MUS and its
impacts among
national level
stakeholders
Coordination of
planning,
implementation and
financing of MUS
among national level
organisations that
enables coordination
among intermediate
level stakeholders
Capacity to support a
learning approach to
MUS among
intermediate level
organisations
National policies,
legislation, norms and
standards allow for
integrated
participatory project
cycles at local and
enabling intermediate
level
National water
policies, legislation,
and implementation
programs allocate
resources to enhance
physical access of the
poor to an equitable
share of water for
multiple uses
Implementing and scaling
up a sustainable, equitable
and effective MUS
approach; principles at
national level for an
enabling environment
National Level
National water
policies and
legislation, and their
enforcement
strategies, enhance
legal access of the
poor to an equitable
share of water for
multiple uses

10. Ownership and
understanding of
MUS and its
impacts among
national level
stakeholdersCoordination of planning,
implementation and
financing of MUS among
national level
organisations that
enables coordination
among intermediate level
stakeholders
Capacity to support a
learning approach to
MUS among
intermediate level
organisations
National policies,
legislation, norms and
standards allow for
integrated
participatory project
cycles at local and
enabling intermediate
level
National water policies,
legislation, and
implementation
programs allocate
resources to enhance
physical access of the
poor to an equitable
share of water for
multiple uses
Implementing and scaling up
a sustainable, equitable and
effective MUS approach;
principles at national level
for an enabling environment
National water policies
and legislation, and
their enforcement
strategies, enhance
legal access of the
poor to an equitable
share of water for
multiple uses
Ownership and
understanding of
MUS and its
impacts among all
intermediate level
stakeholders
Participatory
project cycles
followed in
implementation
programmes
Resources exist
among
intermediate level
stakeholders to
implement and
upscale MUS
Coordination of
planning,
implementation and
financing among
intermediate level
stakeholders
Capacity to follow
a learning
approach to MUS
among
intermediate level
organisations
Intermediate
level institutions
to support
communities in
operation and
maintenance and
other support to
MUS
Enabling environment for
implementing and scaling up a
sustainable, equitable and
effective MUS approach;
principles at
intermediate/service provider
level
Community
National
Intermediate
Flows of information and communication
Flows of information and communication
Ownership and
understanding
of MUS and its
impact
Proper financial
models
Thorough
understanding of
poor people’s
water-based
livelihoods
Appropriate
technology
Effective and
inclusive
community
institutions
Sustainable use of
available water
resources and
services
Implementing a
sustainable, equitable
and effective MUS
approach for improved
livelihoods- principles to
be addressed in the
different phases of the
project cycle at
community level
Learning:
‘services’ ‘starting with people’

11. !! Unintended MUS late 2000s:
• India National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme; 55 million workers;
two-third of works are multi-purpose and
multiple-source water assets.
• Same in Community Work Program??
• Local and Community Driven Development
MUS: accountability
for high-performing service delivery
• New concepts
(e.g., accountability triangle)
• New upscaling partners

12. Thank you for your attention
Further info:
MUS Group: www.musgroup.net
Barbara van Koppen b.vankoppen@cgiar.org