| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Ghana Dams Dialogue |
Summary: 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.
Status: phase 2 is over and phase 3 is under discussion. |
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| Project Description / Background |
Ghana is one of the countries, rich in water resources, where construction of dams for hydropower, water supply and irrigation is a reality. The well know multipurpose Akosombo dam on the Volta river is much cited for its benefits as well as socio-economic and environmental trade-offs, because at the time EIA or SEA were not mandatory.
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The lack of institutional structures and processes to holistically discuss and assess the need for dams, the different options possible to respond to energy water supply and irrigation needs and to address upstream and downstream negative impacts was clearly sensed after Akosombo. The fact that the new Bui dam construction is in the pipeline, makes it all the more urgent to set such a process in motion, especially in a developing country context where stakeholder information and participation through media is not as easy as elsewhere.
This process is supported by Ghana’s designated National Water Policy.
It was in this context that a multi-stakeholder dialogue platform the Ghana Dams Dialogue was initiated by the Volta Basin Development Foundation (a not for profit organisation), in partnership with IWMI to provide technical support on institutional issues related to water resources and dams development. The stakeholder dialogue is steered by a 15 member National Coordinating Committee (NCC) representing all stakeholders in the dams debate. The Forum itself is a 60 member platform which represents the following stakeholder groups (see list of members).
Ghana is a member of the Dams and Development Forum. This forum was one of the outcomes of Dams the UNEP-DDP (Dams and Development Project) a follow-on activity of the World Commission on Dams, Forum members are encouraged to “promote improved decision making planning and management of dams’ though promoting inclusive multi-stakeholder dialogue and sharing and exchanging knowledge on lessons learned from past experiences globally on dam related issues.
The process is in its infancy and is inspired by similar initiatives supported by the GTZ, particularly in Africa. |
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| Goal – Specific Objective |
| To contribute towards well-informed decision-making and sustainable planning and management of dams in Ghana, and to provide consensual recommendations for integration into national planning and legislation through a multi-stakeholder dialogue process. |
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- To set up a platform (the Ghana Forum for Dams and Development) with representation of all groups with a stake in dam development
- To support transparent information exchange and an active dialogue on important issues related to existing and planned dams
- To analyse issues and review and adapt guidelines and strategies developed by the UNEP-DDP relevant to these, for inclusion as needed into to the relevant decision making processes in Ghana
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| Geographical Focus: Ghana |
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| The process has a secretariat, National Coordinating Committee and a sixty-member Forum. The Forum comprises representatives of Government Ministries, Decentralised Government Departments, Research Institutions, Opinion Leaders of Dam-affected Communities, Traditional Leaders, the Private Sectors and other stakeholders to discuss priority issues relating to dam construction and development in Ghana. |
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| The Forum activities are coordinated by the National Coordinating Committee (NCC) comprising |
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| Elements of the dialogue process |
- The process started in 2006 with 6 institutional taskforce (Volta River Authority; Volta Basin Development Foundation; Ministry of Energy; Ministry of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Conservation International and Water Resources Commission)
- Task force transformed to Steering Committee (SC) submitted a proposal to GTZ and UNEP/DDP for the 1st phase of the process which ended up with a National Consultative Meeting in January, 2007.
- International Water Management Institute (IWMI) was approached to play advisory role to Steering Committee.
- During the 1st Phase, a consultant was identified to prepare Background Documentation for the process.
- The Document spelt out the composition of the Forum, National Coordinating Committee (NCC) and the Secretariat.
- The NCC met 3 times in the 2nd Phase and organized the 1st Forum in September 4, 2007
- After the 1st Forum, Consultants were identified to prepare issue papers on three issues namely:
# Strategies for Community Participation in Dam Development
# Issues on Compensation for Dam Affected Persons
# Research, Development and Capacity Building for the Sustainability of Dam Development with Special Reference to the Bui Dam Project.
- The second full forum meeting of the Ghana Dams Forum was a two day meeting which took place on 26th and 27th February, 2008 at M Plaza Hotel, Accra, Ghana. About 150 stakeholders attended the workshop over the two day period, that was facilitated by an external facilitator. The main theme for the Forum was “Bringing Research Findings on Dams Closer to the People”. (See pictures from the Forum)
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- Background Report for the National Consultative Meeting
- Setting up of the National Consultative Committee (NCC) which acted as the steering committee for the Ghana Dams and Development Forum.
- An active and informed multi-stakeholder platform with representation from all key stakeholders including government authorities and dam affected communities
- Three issue papers based on an inventory of issues of relevance to Ghana dams context and strategies to address these (key priority issues identified through a participatory process)
- An action plan for the follow-up of recommendations on the issues discussed and for support of the institutionalization of the dam dialogue and/or its objectives
- A broad-range of informed Ghanaian stakeholders who are able to reflect and discuss dam related issues in a more integrated manner which considers social, environmental and economic dimensions of development to the planning and management of dams
- A greater understanding and appreciation of the impact of climate change on hydropower dams to both scientists and non-scientists.
- A short policy brief on the impacts of climate change on the Bui hydropower project.
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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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- 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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| 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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| Technology Adoption and Dissemination |
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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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