Objectives

• Fill in strategic and practical research gaps identified through IPTRID's program by establishing useful data banks and developing better research and analytical tools;
• Increase national and regional capacity to improve management and institutional systems through supporting professional practices responsive to the issue of water for food, cities and environment; and
• Engage the creative thought and practice of the world water, agriculture and environmental communities and of key opinion and decision makers. This calls for concerted investigation, problem solving, dialogue and the free and open exchange of ideas to understand and address the distinctive conditions, opportunities, and values in the diverse societies more effectively

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• Analysis of existing (grey and published) literature (eg. work on AWM technologies and their adoption), developing and applying analytical frameworks
• Assessment, analysis and assimilation of impact assessment studies of neglected areas through compilation of empirical studies and complementing by socio-economic adoption surveys, such as treadle pump adoption survey in . Case study synthesis (eg. workshop on AWM Technology with USAID, FAO and others)
• Preparing inventories of Small Scale Irrigation technology and SWOT analysis
• Country level and basin scale policy analysis through application of PODIUM in various countries
• Trend analysis of the "benchmarking" database
• Application of PODIUM model in Tanzania and South Africa.

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