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Nile Basin Development Challenge: Brief overview Tilahun Amede, CPWF Nile Basin Coordinator Nile Basin Development Challenge Launch Workshop, Addis Ababa, 29 September 2010

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Well come to NBDC!

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Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) <ul><li>NBDC research will focus on the Ethiopian highlands and will examine the interrelated issues of rainwater management; </li></ul><ul><li>The Blue Nile Basin is suffering from economic water scarcity; </li></ul><ul><li>Understanding causes and its consequences of low rainwater productivity; </li></ul><ul><li>Innovations for improving rainwater management systems; addressing poverty, vulnerability and resources degradation in the basin. </li></ul><ul><li>Crop and livestock water productivity; </li></ul><ul><li>Managing rainfall variability, </li></ul><ul><li>Minimizing land degradation and downstream siltation of water storage infrastructure; </li></ul><ul><li>Resilient communities and systems that will manage climatic and market shocks </li></ul>

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Improvement through well-targeted combinations of technologies, up-scaling ‘best bets’, policies and institutions, understanding of downstream & cross-scale consequences, facilitating learning, collective action, commitment to change <ul><li>Nile 1: On learning from the past; </li></ul><ul><li>Nile 2: On integrated rainwater management strategies – technologies, institutions and policies; </li></ul><ul><li>Nile 3: On targeting and scaling out </li></ul><ul><li>Nile 4: On assessing and anticipating consequences of innovation </li></ul><ul><li>Nile 5: Nile Coordination and platforms </li></ul>

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Nile Basin Leader <ul><li>Managing and leading the Coordination Project </li></ul><ul><li>Oversees and coordinates the implementation of the four CPWF-supported research programs designed to tackle pressing BDC; RMS </li></ul><ul><li>Ensure coherence and integration of the overall BDC research; </li></ul><ul><li>Linking, complementing with and motivating a wider movement, initiatives and organizations who are also working towards addressing the BDC agenda; </li></ul><ul><li>Together with CPWF M&E team managing M&E and impact assessment of NBDC; </li></ul><ul><li>Enabling learning, partnerships and impact; </li></ul><ul><li>Facilitating cross-scale innovation and knowledge </li></ul>

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Nile 1 <ul><li>Review and Synthesis of historical perspectives of land, water, NRM research in Ethiopia and progress to date; experiences of programs and projects on rainwater management (RWM) in Ethiopia </li></ul>

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Nile 2 . (Landscape scale technologies, policies and institutions; innovations)

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Nile 3. Targeting and up-scaling <ul><li>Mapping, targeting, up-scaling of bio-physical and institutional interventions affecting RWM strategies </li></ul> Blanket approaches <ul><li>Evaluation of scenario’s of best-bet practices </li></ul><ul><li>Dissemination / adoption / modification / use </li></ul><ul><li>of Best Practices for Improved Rainwater systems in Ethiopian highlands </li></ul>

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Nile 4: On assessing and anticipating consequences of innovation <ul><li>Evidence </li></ul><ul><li>Impact at various levels </li></ul><ul><li>Downstream effects </li></ul><ul><li>Upstream effects </li></ul><ul><li>Policy and institutional shift </li></ul><ul><li>Economic and social consequences </li></ul>4. Innovation Capacity Building and Dissemination 4.1 Capacity Building 4.2 Dissemination 3. Analysis of water productivity savings 3.1Green Blue Water Accounting 3.2 Analysis of productivity savings 3.2 Analysis of waterlogged savings 2. Analysis of best land use systems 2.1 Crop and livestock productivity through RMS 2.3 LLH analysis 2.4 Economic analysis 1. Information on the likely cross-scale consequences 1.1 Synthesis of existing knowledge 1.2 Develop tools and methods for biophysical 1.3 Policy and institutional consequences

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Nile 5 objectives <ul><li>Ensure that synergies, lessons and interactions between the other four Nile BDC projects are fully exploited so that the whole is greater than the sum; </li></ul><ul><li>Contributing to wider efforts to improve rural livelihoods and their resilience through facilitating rainwater management systems in the Blue Nile basin </li></ul>

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Linkages Sub-regional Landscape Farm level Impact Learning Communication Nile 5. Coordination, platforms Nile 4. Consequences, impact, tradeoffs Nile 2. Innovations, technologies , practices Nile 3. Mapping, targeting. Up-scaling Nile 1. Inventory and synthesis Linkages Linkages

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<ul><li>Participatory M&E framework will be used to monitor and evaluate progress and make adjustments; </li></ul><ul><li>Generic indicators against which the activities and expected results will be measured; </li></ul><ul><li>Development of common reporting formats allowing teams to better share lessons; </li></ul><ul><li>Schedules for project specific evaluations will be agreed and evaluation studies on cross cutting issues including gender, social preferences will be jointly carried out; </li></ul><ul><li>Capacity building (inc gender, M&E) will be built both into the whole co-ordination and project implementation, individual activities based on a needs assessment. </li></ul>Strongly interlinked NBDC projects

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NBDC working principles <ul><li>Strong partnership; range of partners, larger network and linkages </li></ul><ul><li>Interdisciplinary research; disciplines and institutions </li></ul><ul><li>Capacity building; mentoring, facilitating </li></ul><ul><li>Gender and diversity; ability to participate in and derive benefit from water </li></ul><ul><li>Learning, documentation and communication </li></ul>

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Coordination project is organized around three outputs <ul><li>I: Impact pathways and governance structures for effective management, monitoring and evaluation of the Nile BDC projects </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Focuses on the development, use, monitoring and adaptation of IP to ensure projects have a forum for interaction and adjustment </li></ul></ul><ul><li>II: Networks for Innovation for improved RWM in the Nile basin strengthened : </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Use innovation approaches first to map networks of present and desired actors and their interactions, develop plans for engaging and influencing them; </li></ul></ul><ul><li>III: Effective Communication, documentation and synthesis for RWM developed and used: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Ensuring that all partners within the five projects as well as other similar initiatives access and benefit from the information as it is generated. It also ensures higher level synthesis of lessons and processes relevant to the broader BDC and wider scaling up and out of RWM strategies. </li></ul></ul>

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Effective communication <ul><li>Continual engagement of the NBDC team, through monthly meetings, electronic media, project interaction </li></ul><ul><li>Inclusive planning of workshops; Nile pre-inception, Inception workshops, Nile Launching </li></ul><ul><li>Communication tools are in place; wikis, yammers, teleconferences.. </li></ul><ul><li>Generic communication strategy is under development; reflection </li></ul><ul><li>Key presentations made in various forums; ASARECA, UNEP, Ethiopian Soil Science Society; Climate change forum Ethiopia; Climate Change , Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) , MP5 consortium meeting, </li></ul><ul><li>Briefs, reports, journals are already emerging </li></ul><ul><li>(Special issue on water productivity in print) </li></ul><ul><li>Field visits to one of the research areas (jedu) organized and report shared </li></ul>

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Impact pathways and governance structures <ul><li>OLMs are in place with the support of the M&E team; </li></ul><ul><li>MOUs with partners signed, except one; </li></ul><ul><li>M&E draft strategy has been developing; indicators for Nile 5 available for comments; </li></ul><ul><li>Baseline is undergoing; </li></ul><ul><li>Support to projects when required; </li></ul><ul><li>Functional team established; back stopping </li></ul>

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Innovation platforms <ul><li>Inventory of institutions / actors / taskforces / Platforms underway </li></ul><ul><li>Mapping of joint ventures / manadates / products and location underway </li></ul><ul><li>Analysis of incentives , arrangements, interest groups is underway </li></ul>

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Topics from Nile Inception <ul><li>Clustering of similar activities as a way of better understanding and aligning what we are doing. </li></ul><ul><li>For each category it would be good to have more description of what is being done and being produced </li></ul><ul><li>Would be good to match this to a time frame </li></ul><ul><li>We should look clustering of activities by scale </li></ul>

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Cross-project overlaps

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Site selection criteria <ul><li>Socio-economic status </li></ul><ul><li>RWM challenges </li></ul><ul><li>Agro-ecologies </li></ul><ul><li>Production systems </li></ul><ul><li>Market access </li></ul><ul><li>Diversity of actors (type, numbers, etc.) </li></ul>

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Recommendation for action: <ul><li>Field campaign to select sites together, all teams**** </li></ul><ul><li>MT considers a longer time frame for N3 </li></ul><ul><li>Have a participatory scenario workshop to provide indicative preliminary options for RMS within 6 months </li></ul><ul><li>Ensure joint field visits </li></ul><ul><li>Incorporate this all into workplans /activities </li></ul><ul><li>create a scenario working group </li></ul><ul><li>need to define boundaries of scenarios </li></ul><ul><ul><li>N2 Scenarios will be participatory to capture plans and aspiration of communities </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>N3 can also do MEA type scenarios capture larger scale process and imbed our analysis into that context </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>N4 Scenarios incorporate our RMS into larger water development plans of Ethiopia </li></ul></ul>