The document outlines 4 main areas of focus for agricultural water management (AWM) in Africa over the next few years: 1. Developing a vision for AWM in Africa to be endorsed at the 6th World Water Forum, including high-level commitments and operationalizing AWM through CAADP. 2. Consolidating existing operational tools for AWM through an online portal and briefing notes within 6 months, primarily targeting post-compact countries. 3. Developing a country investment tool to support AWM investment operations in both post- and pre-compact countries over 6-18 months. 4. Strengthening capacities for effective AWM delivery through partnerships, needs assessments, learning events

1. CTA Annual Seminar
Public Policy and Investment
24th November, 2010
Andy Bullock

2. The main foci for action to 2015:
supporting AWM operations and investments in 20 Post-Compact
countries (significant expansion of AWM, ‘next generation’ Ag
SWAPs/irrigation policies)
Countries (perhaps indicatively 5-10) progressing to Compacts
(alignments of AWM within national development and agricultural
strategies, effective national irrigation policies and strategies, and
AWM with food security policies
working with CAADP to support (perhaps indicatively 5-10) countries
that will progress towards, but not necessarily conclude on, Compacts
Low Income Countries Under Stress (LICUS)

3. TerrAfrica
‘Equivalent’ community
of practice under Pillar I
Aimed at scaling up
Sustainable Land
Management
Country Support Tool
(CST)

4. a) Overall demand for support is high
b) Better narrative on AWM connections to Nat. Devt. Plans and SWAPs
c) Institutional roles and responsibilities can be clearer
d) Business case for public investments - benefit from renewal of messages of
the economic and social benefits (returns to society, returns to Govt)
e) AWM can be differentiated by ‘Business Lines’
f) Very strong case for Implementation Manuals to simplify operational
practices for main AWM business lines
g) More can be got from existing delivery mechanisms
h) High value in pre-investment planning in advance of partner engagement
i) Broader base of support services can be brought to bear (civ soc, priv sector)
j) AWM connections within river basins are important and relevant, but not
whole story (eg regional food markets, economic spillovers)
Operationally-oriented, linked to ongoing thrusts. With
improving investment flows, redress low sector performance

5. Different beneficiary targets, political economies, financing models
etc
1) improved water control and watershed management in a rain-fed
environment
2) small scale community-managed irrigation for local markets;
3) individual smallholder irrigation for high value markets;
4) market oriented (medium-large scale) irrigation on a public private
partnership basis
5) reform and modernization of existing large scale irrigation; and

6. A collective Vision for AWM in Africa, endorsed by AUC aimed at high-level
political messages to the global development community through 6th World
Water Forum at Marseille, 2012.
1. Strong, positive messages on benefits of market-led, value-chain AWM in
economic and agricultural growth and poverty reduction to national development
2. A summary of high-level declarations and commitments (and targets)
3. ‘Principles of engagement’ – financing principles (public, fiduciary)
4. Operationalisaing AWM through CAADP
6. Delivery mechanisms (CAADP, AMCOW’s follow-up on Regional Position
Paper, African Water Facility, Climate for Development in Africa (ClimDev-
Africa), the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD/ICA), Program for
Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA)

7. CEOT – I (First-order consolidation): Oriented through AgWA website
a) online access to (indicatively) 10-15 principal AWM documents
b) online access to (indicatively) 30-50 existing tools (guidelines, best
practices, knowledge synopses etc), organised by the five principal business
lines, as multi-partner contributions.
CEOT – II (Maximising value of existing tools): Outputs within 6 months,
aimed at dissemination as well as, but not limited, to the AgWA website:
c) Briefing notes:
• 5 Business lines
• Recommendations from Collaborative Program
• Cross-pIllar connections (Pillar II-IV)
d) 15-20 ‘best prospects’ tools – improving uptake value
e) Increasing web-based organisation of existing tools by country
f) Improved on-line access to Partners ongoing AWM investment activities
g) Information note (aimed at Ministers, Ps, Director level) – Existing Funds
and Facilities

9. CEOT – I (First-order consolidation): Oriented through AgWA website
a) online access to (indicatively) 10-15 principal AWM documents
b) online access to (indicatively) 30-50 existing tools (guidelines, best
practices, knowledge synopses etc), organised by the five principal business
lines, as multi-partner contributions.
CEOT – II (Maximising value of existing tools): Outputs within 6 months,
aimed at dissemination as well as, but not limited, to the AgWA website:
c) Briefing notes:
• 5 Business lines
• Recommendations from Collaborative Program
• Cross-pIllar connections (Pillar II-IV)
d) 15-20 ‘best prospects’ tools – improving uptake value
e) Increasing web-based organisation of existing tools by country
f) Improved on-line access to Partners ongoing AWM investment activities
g) Information note (aimed at Ministers, Ps, Director level) – Existing Funds
and Facilities

11. A. Pre-investment
Framework
B. ‘Business Line’
Implementation
Manuals
C. Investment
Roadmap
Framework
D. M&E
Policy stock-take and
diagnosis
Policy and strategy support
plan
Implementation
Manuals of
norms and
standards
Government
statement of
investment
package (active
and pipeline
interventions)
M&E in support
of the ReSAKSS
system
Annual AWM
Report to AUC
Accompanying measures Best practice
‘Technology’
Manuals
Project
Preparation
Pipeline
Elaboration of ‘Business
Lines’
Stages of the investment
cycle
Independent scorecard of
‘investment readiness’
Guideline
documents for
principal
irrigation
technologies
Rolling ‘basket’
of most viable
investments
under
preparation

12. Policy Stock-take and Diagnosis - country-level (within a 1-2 month
period), largely through consultative processes and multi-partner
engagement
Investment readiness score-card (‘traffic-light’ based)
Policy and Strategy Support Plan – further steps on policy/strategy
reform (as supplements) - addressing gaps identified through the
Policy Stock-take and diagnosis

13. The Implementation Manuals would target scaling-up of delivery to farmers -
with improved performance (maximum impact), cost efficiencies etc
National norms and standards to flow from
•Evaluations and Mid-Term Reviews
•Safeguards
•Lessons-learned
•Success/failure stories from the field
•Research uptake opportunities
Manuals also to frame AWM Business lines within their own setting of
agricultural development, scaling-up opportunities, financial viability and
sustainability, service provision, institutional roles …
Aim to overcome multiplicity of separate Project Manuals (which can vary
between projects, donors and implementing partners) - proliferation of
approach

14. Rolling biennial document at national level
Active and immediate pipeline investments and overall Finance
Strategy (PubEx in CapEx, O&M, etc)
Project Preparation Pipeline, ‘most viable’ projects emerging from
pre-investment assessments (economic and technical feasibility,
safeguard compliance, etc)

15. The recommendations from AgWA M&E Review.
Two ‘most viable’ routes:
• Boosting the AWM content of the existing ReSAKSS M&E system of
CAADP , or
• A significant and substantial evolution of AQUASTAT.
New ‘draft results monitoring matrix for AWM in Africa’, proposed by
that Report. Recommends 20 core indicators within a framework.
Annual report to AUC on progress (CAADP/AMCOW)

16. a) Partnership building through AgWA’s sub-regional networks: wider
coalition of expertise
b) Capacity needs assessment, with initial focus on increasing
absorptive capacities in lead operational organisations
c) Curriculum of learning events for greater effectiveness
d) AWM champions

17. 1. Vision of Agricultural Water Management in Africa (Vision) –
target 6th World Water Forum – Investment case and principles of
engagement
2. Consolidation of Existing Operational Tools (CEOT) – ‘rapid
and urgent’, within 3-6 months; primarily aimed (in the first instance)
at Post-Compact countries
3. Country Investment Tool (CIT) - aimed at supporting countries in
their investment operations in both Post- and Pre-Compact situations;
6-18 month timescale
4. Capacity strengthening (CS) - aimed at improving absorptive
capacity over a five-year timescale; initial ocus on first 12 months.