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Karen Meijer and Judith ter Maat
Water, Peace and Security – FREXUS
Application Mali
17-11-2020
BlueEarth Co-creation
Deltares

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Co-creation context application Mali
Frexus: Improving security and climate resilience in a fragile context
through the Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus
Implemented by GIZ, with funding from EU and German cooperation
17-11-2020
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Implemented by the WPS partnership, with
funding from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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With local actors
Joint
understanding
Evidence-based
Action oriented
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Application in Mali
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Fomi Dam:
Selingue Dam
Office du Niger
Inner Niger Delta
Bamako
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Information needs in preparation of decision-making:
basis for dashboard development
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What if…?
Fomi is constructed/
operated in a certain
way?
Irrigation Office du
Niger is expanded?
How will this change…?
Energy production?
Livelihoods?
Conflicts?
Food production?
Can this be influenced
through…?
Rule of
law?
Capacity building?
Different reservoir
operation?
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Evidence-based answering of questions:
linking data and models
What if…?
Fomi is
constructed/
Operated in a
certain way?
Irrigation Office
du Niger is
expanded?
How will this change…?
Energy production?
Livelihoods?
Conflicts?
Food production?
Can this be influenced
through…?
Rule of
law?
Capacity building?
Different reservoir
operation?
Rainfall run-off
Water
allocation
Human
responses
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Modelling of water-related trigger
Rainfall
Evaporation
Inundation regime
Inner Niger Delta
Water use and allocation model
(Ribasim)
Hydrological model
(wflow)
Niger – MSWEP - KGE=0.82
Niger – CHIRPS - KGE=0.44
(but higher performance at other stations)

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Participatory analysis of human responses
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Human responses to modified river flows*
Wetland flooding
regime
Extremism
Illegal activities
Ability
No dam
Alternative dam
operation
Altering
perceptions
Law
enforcement
Training
Access to
finance
(Perception of)
alternatives options
Migration
Trigger (Perception of) livelihood
opportunities
and their (un)equal distribution
Diversification
Motivation
Action Violence
Other driving
forces
Based on the MOTA framework (Phi et al, 2015)

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Example dashboard – information for general public
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Example
dashboard
–
impact
analysis
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Example
dashboard
–
impact
analysis
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Example
dashboard
–
impact
analysis
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Example
dashboard
–
impact
analysis
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• Effective water management benefits from a shared understanding among stakeholders of the
functioning of the water system and how this is influenced by future developments and
measures
• Model results and data contribute to this understanding and are not always easily understood
• Dashboards help to visualize and communicate this information, and support discussions and
decisions
• Early (inception phase) dashboard design based on identification of outcomes of interests,
external factors and possible measures helps to structure information needs
• The dashboard is not (only) an end result but a support tool throughout a discussion/decision
process, that evolves over time
• Open data and models based on open data can serve to quickly fill the dashboard early in the
process, but important to remain critical and test multiple data sources. Information can be
further refined in later stages
• Dashboad will always be tailor-made. BlueEarth Co-creation offers a structured approach for
stakeholder involvement and tools that can easily be adjusted to fit these needs
Messages – BlueEarth Co-creation
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Contact
blueearth.deltares.org
blueearth@deltares.nl
@deltares
@deltares
linkedin.com/company/deltares
facebook.com/deltaresNL
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