| Water Flume Meters for Water User Associations (WUAs) in Central Asia |
| This project is funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and carried out in collaboration with the Scientific Information Centre of the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination of Central Asia (SIC-ICWC). The overall goal of the project is dissemination of the IWRM and water saving experiences gained within pilot WUAs among the newly created WUAs in the Akbura basin, along the South Ferghana and Khoji Bakirgan canals in the three countries of Ferghana Valley. |
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| Nile Basin Focal Project (CP59) |
| The focus of the project is to identify high potential water management interventions for increasing water productivity and poverty alleviation in different parts of the basin that would inform research and development efforts. Collaborators include ILRI , Worldfish Center, Nile Basin Initiative (NBI), ENTRO. Because of the basin size, complexity and variable data availability, the key is to find a balance between level of detail and analysis required and the need to gain an overall picture of water, productivity, livelihoods, and poverty within the basin. |
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| Indus Gangetic Basin focal Project (CP60) |
The goal of this project is to conduct basin-wide analysis of conditions, constraints and opportunities for improving agricultural water productivity and alleviate poverty through high potential interventions. This goal shall be accomplished through rigorous analysis and mapping of water availability and access, poverty, and productivity of water and identifying technological, social and policy interventions in different parts of the Indo-Gangetic basin.
IWMI has on-going functioning partnerships with all the partner institutions, including current MoUs. IWMI has significant opportunities to exploit synergies with other CP Projects in the basin, viz., Groundwater Governance (CP 42) and National River Linking Project (CP48). |
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| Improving Water Productivity in Crop-livestock Systems in the IGB (CP 68). |
| This is a companion project of the BMZ project on livestock water productivity in Africa that began in 2007. It is a collaboration with ILRI, and two NGO’s in India, funded by CPWF. This project will contribute to providing a framework that can be used to understand water productivity of crop-livestock systems, and designing entry points for improvement (MTP9). |
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| APIA and AEA to support decision-making for water allocation for fisheries and agriculture in the Tonle Sap wetland system (CP71) |
| The project aims to enhance the existing participatory agro-ecosystems analysis (AEA) especially at Commune level (CAEA) by developing an integrated assessment that considers the benefits and requirements of fisheries in agro-ecosystems, especially in relation to water management. This project will make use of a range of existing knowledge and tools, including the Adaptive Participatory and Integrated Assessment (APIA) approach. |
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| Adapting integrated watershed management for productivity and beneficial conservation of agricultural landscapes in the Lake Kivu Pilot Learning Site (PLS) |
| This project is part of the Sub Saharan Africa Challenge Program. The goal is to enhance the contribution of agricultural and natural resource systems to livelihoods in the Lake Kivu Pilot Learning site. The overall intention is to demonstrate the value of integrated agricultural research for development (IAR4D). This project is coordinated by CIAT. However, the task force with which IWMI is involved is being led by Mekere University. The primary focus of this task force is integrated watershed management. The purpose of the project is “Integrated management of watersheds for sustainable productivity and conservation adapted to the intensively cultivated and steeply sloping landscapes”. Drawing heavily from the Asian successes, the proposal takes on the challenge of developing and introducing integrated watershed management systems that link sustainable land use with productive and profitable agriculture and livelihood development. |
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| Integrated Water Resources Management |
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- GLOWA-Volta
Developing decision support systems for sustainable water use under changing land use, rainfall reliability and water demands in the Volta Basin
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- Small Multipurpose Reservoirs
Planning and evaluating ensembles of small, multi-purpose reservoirs for the improvement of smallholder livelihoods and food security: tools and procedures (CP Water & Food project 46).
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- Informal Irrigation
Developing decision support for agricultural development and investment strategies in the Volta and Niger basins with special reference to informal smallholder irrigation (CP Water & Food project 39).
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- Comprehensive Assessment (Volta Basin)
Understanding the development of agriculture and water use in the Volta Basin based on an inventory of existing biophysical, socioeconomic and institutional data.
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- Shallow Groundwater irrigation for livelihoods security and poverty reduction in the White Volta Basin (CPWF 65)
This project aims to assess the current role of shallow groundwater irrigation in securing livelihoods and reducing poverty in the White Volta basin and to develop management recommendations for shallow groundwater development. Recommendations for improved management practices and policies, based on the generated knowledge base, will be developed and implemented in close cooperation with local partners in the Ghanaian Water Research Institute (WRI) and the Burkinabe Ecole Inter-Etats d'Ingénieurs de l'Equipement Rural (EIER).
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- Re-thinking Water Storage for Climate Change Adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Given that many countries will be (or already are) proposing significant new water storage in response to climate change, this project funded by BMZ will explore hydrologic, social, institutional and landscape scale implications of various scales of water storage and how they will be affected by climate change in study sites in West and East Africa (MTP9).
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- Ghana Dams Dialogue
In the wake of Ghana’s recent power crisis and the construction of the Bui Hydropower Dam, the National Dialogue on Dams and Development in Ghana, was initiated to contribute towards well-informed decision-making and sustainable planning and management of dams in Ghana. To date it has provided consensual recommendations to government for integration into national planning and legislation.
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phase 2 is over and phase 3 is under discussion. |
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- Ghana Irrigation Policy Development
Developing an irrigation policy for Ghana which addresses the formal and informal irrigation sector, participatory irrigation management and irrigation privatization.
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- Formal water rights in informal economies in the Limpopo and Volta Basins (CP66)
This interdisciplinary project fosters innovative dialogue among different knowledge, policy and implementation communities that used to work in parallel. In particular, it translates knowledge on indigenous water rights, which is available but has largely remained academic, into operational insights on how to build upon its strengths while overcoming weaknesses. The often ignored linkages between water and land rights are examined in-depth. Lessons from more advanced debates in Latin America and South Asia are drawn upon.
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| Malaria Risk associated with Irrigation |
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- Malaria Risk Mapping (Volta Basin)
Exploring options to produce a malaria risk map for the Volta Basin based on hospital records, climate & vegetation data, and population density.
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- Urban Malaria
Investigating how urban agriculture increases the risk of malaria in West African cities for recommendations to minimize any potential risk
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| Safe use of wastewater and solid waste in (peri)urban agriculture |
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- Exploring the Feasibility of Scaling-up Options to Enhance Food Safety and Public Health in Ghana.
In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), urbanization has outpaced public services especially in the sanitation sector affecting harshly environmental and human health. In line with the latest edition of the Guidelines for Safe Wastewater Irrigation (WHO-FAO-UNEP, 2006) this study funded by Google.org will test the feasibility of a larger project transforming our research on options to safeguard pubic heath into impact by outsourcing wastewater treatment and health risk reduction services from the city to the farm and postharvest sector.
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| Technology Adoption and Dissemination |
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- Scoping study on small-scale Agricultural Water Management (AWM)
This was a short study contracted and completed in the first quarter of 2008. It was a collaboration with IFPRI, FAO and SEI funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The objective of the study was to provide an initial assessment of the potential for small-scale water control interventions to support poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and South Asia (SA), represented by India (MTP9).
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| Online manual describing adoption drivers and limitations for common technologies |
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- Adoption studies of treadle pumps in West Africa (IPTRID)
Understanding factors supporting and constraining (early) adoption of water lifting devises in West Africa in relation to different pump marketing strategies.
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