Nile Basin Development Challenge: Rainwater Management Systems Nile BDC Workshop, Addis Ababa April 8, 2011 Tilahun Amede and Team Nile Basin Leader

CPWF Consortium Members AREO

Phase 2

SSA’s dependence on rainwater agriculture

Nile BDC Rainwater Management Systems

Landscape from NBDC perspective?

R&D actors, communities, policy makers and others jointly achieve a sustainable and economically viable watershed with improved resource quality, minimized resource loss and improved economic benefits & livelihoods

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

Market incentives for Landscape Management

Why Platforms? Community participation & commitment Learning through process monitoring & documentation Supportive policies Market orientation Scaling up strategy Community facilitation of R&D process Institutional learning & capacity building Farmer experimention Local organizational capacity Basket of technology options Linkages and partnerships among stakeholders Multi-interdisciplinary & systems approach Managing an Effective RWMS Supportive infrastrcture Commitment & capacity of research teams Supportive research management & organization

Well come to NBDC!