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Overview
on projects coordinated by the East Africa Office
IWMI has commenced quite significant activities
since its establishment in the sub-region. In addition to its
linkage to Africa wide and Global projects, there are considerable
sub-regional and country specific projects ongoing, completed
or in the pipeline. The portfolios of these projects are the
following:
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Project Title and Description |
Status |
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Integrated
Management of the Sudd Wetland
The Sudd Wetland, located in Southern
Sudan supports a diversity of ecosystems services. The
area is attracting many of the displaced people after
the peace agreement of 2005. The goal of this project
is to develop research proposals for knowledge generation,
sharing and application activities that will contribute
to improvements in the livelihoods of the local inhabitants
in the Sudd wetland, while ensuring ecosystem resilience,
and efficient water use.
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Ongoing |
Improving
CGIAR Effectiveness through Knowledge Sharing - Knowledge
Sharing in Research
This project
works throughout the CGIAR to generate, share and apply
knowledge on appropriate and useful knowledge sharing
in research approaches. The goal is to bridge the gap
between research and its beneficiaries, increase the adoption
rate of research recommendations and improve the performance
of Centers and their partners. The KS in Research project
works closely with scientists, users and project partners
who are open to incorporating KS approaches into new or
ongoing collaborative research initiatives. |
Ongoing |
| CP19-Upstream
Downstream This
project aims improving agricultural practices and conserving
water at all levels by all stakeholders, both within Ethiopia
and downstream communities dependent on the Nile |
Ongoing |
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Ongoing |
| Irrigation
Impact on Poverty and Environment
A multi-year research
and capacity building project applying new methodologies
for assessing the impacts of irrigation on poverty and
environment and finding ways to enhance the positive impacts. |
Ongoing |
| CP
36:Improved Livelihoods with Dam Management
The wise and sustainable
use of dams requires consideration of a large number of
complex and inter-related issues and poses intricate technical
and political problems. This project is investigating
the use of modern decision support systems (dss) for the
planning and management of dam operation. The study is
investigating which dss are most appropriate for the complexity
of large dam operation and how these dss are best used
to ensure successful stakeholder participation, and assess
the costs and benefits of different operating options. |
Ongoing |
| CP
37: Increasing water-use efficiency for food production
through better livestock management – The Nile River
Basin
The research project
is to develop concepts and tools to account for livestock
use, depletion and degradation of water in river basins,
to assess livestock-water productivity and to use this
knowledge to improve overall allocation and use of water
and land resources for all users and at scales ranging
from the household and community to the basin level. |
Ongoing |
| Assessing
Health Impacts of Small Reservior in Burkina Faso
Collection of primary
data to understand health impacts of small reservoirs
in Kaya and Koubri (Burkina Faso) |
Ongoing |
| Health
Impact Assessment of Small Dams in Morocco
Participatory health
impact assessment of a small dam in Morocco: methodology
development and community mobilization |
Ongoing |
| System
wide Livestock Program
Membership of Livestock
Program Group, the steering committee of SLP. |
Ongoing |
| SSA-CP Lake
Kivu Pilot Learnning Site (PLS): A
consortium is established to develop a research proposal
on Lake Kivue PLS. This is a joint project of NARIs, SWMNet,
and CG Centers |
Ongoing |
| Nile BFP |
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| Agricultural
Water Management Technologies
This project is intended
to bring together stakeholders working in small scale
irrigation, water harvesting and micro irrigation fields.
Through establishing a national level steering committee
and organizing symposia, exhibition and workshop it would
try to understand existing positive and negative lessons
in the agricultural water management in Ethiopia. Through
stakeholders’ consultations, it explores key areas
of study and research that would create impact in AWM. |
Ongoing |
| Improving
Productivity and Market System for Small Holder Farmers
in Ethiopia-IPMS
IWMI is contributing
to the ILRI led and CIDA funded project in relation to
small scale irrigation, water harvesting and development
of training module under a project known as IPMS |
Ongoing |
| Dissemination of
research results in semi-arid and arid ecosystems with a
focus on sustainable water resource management in Ethiopia
(WATERAN) This
project is funded under the EU 6th Framework and has been
operating since 2006. It has an overall goal focused on
‘bridging the gap between research publication and
implementation of research results. In addition to disseminating
state of the art research results in sustainable water
management, the WATERMAN project is concerned with the
ways in which research results, particularly within the
arena of water, are conveyed to, made available and used
by a multitude of stakeholders within Ethiopia and also
neighbouring countries.
http://waterman.boku.ac.at/
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Ongoing |
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CGIAR-NBI
Synergies
This project
deals with stakeholders’ consultation process to
identify gaps in knowledge and opportunities for research
and capacity building that would directly support the
NBI programs.
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Ongoing |
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Capacity Building:
In addition to collaborative works
with the various organizations and Institutions, IWMI
has been supporting 5 Ph.D. students. Over 20 Ethiopian
and Students from the North completed their M.Sc. studies
through IWMI’s financial support and or supervision
and guidance. Currently 3 additional M.Sc. students are
working under IWMI support. Over 70 irrigation professionals
trained on diagnosis and M &E of SSI in Kenya and
Ethiopia. |
Continous |
RIPARWIN
The RIPARWIN project
investigated competition for water in the upper part
of the Great Ruaha River. It is tested the theory that
improving irrigation efficiency and productivity in
upstream areas would “free up” water for
downstream needs.
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Completed
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| CP
28: Multiple uses of water
Systems that allow
efficient and effective supply of water to various stakeholders
and that interact with various providers of water related
services ('multiple use systems') are probably highly
desirable from the perspective of using scare water most
efficiently and also from the perspectives of gender equity
and improving livelihoods. The MUS-project carries out
scientific action research to validate this statement
about a water-innovation. The project works through so-called
learning alliances in 5 river basins around the world
to develop locally-specific innovations and build capacity
for scaling up. |
Completed |
Assessment of
Experience and Opportunities of Small Scale Irrigation,
Micro Irrigation and Water Harvesting in Ethiopia:
a CIDA supported project completed
with providing proposal for innovative up-scaling. See
working paper 98. http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/pubs/working/WOR98.pdf |
Completed |
| Ground Water
Hydro-Ecology of Ethiopia. Desk
study conducted end of 2004 and beginning of 2005. Supported
through Comprehensive Assessment (CA) |
Completed |
| Wastewater Addis:
A Rapid assessment of the extent
and significance of wastewater irrigation around Addis
Ababa City has been conducted and completed in January
2005 as one of 30 Cities studied under the Comprehensive
Assessment (CA) |
Completed |
| Small Dams and
Malaria: Entomological
studies to determine the malaria transmission potential
around 6 earth dams in Northern Tigray (Dutch-supported
through SIMA, complemented with IWMI core funds, terminated
end 2005. Links to other projects on health impacts of
small dams in Burkina Faso and Morocco). |
Completed |
| Improving
Irrigation Performance Africa
a project designed
to improve the capacities of farmers and field level staff
in enhancing performance of small and medium scale irrigation
schemes (“APPIA” French-supported) in Kenya
and Ethiopia |
Completed |
| SIMA
- Integrating malaria control
interventions with development strategies in Mwea |
Completed |
| Sustainable
Increases In Agricultural Water Productivity. Research
on Strategies to Reduce Poverty by Improving Agricultural
Water Use and Management in the Ewaso Ng’iro North
River Basin, Kenya. A
proposal has been submitted to the World Bank and awaits
funding. |
In Pipeline |
| Achieving Food
Security, Gender Equity, and Agricultural Growth in Ethiopia
through Innovative Water and Land Management Interventions.
Proposal has been developed and
submitted to CIDA but not yet sponsored |
In pipeline |
| SRP: Small Dams and Malaria Phase
II: testing of interventions
for malaria control around small dams in Tigray, northern
Ethiopia, and Capacity building for data management and
data analysis for malaria and small dams in Tigray, submitted. |
In Pipeline |
| Ethiopian Special
Country Support Program (ESCP): IFAD-MOWR-IWMI-CIAT
on participatory and comprehensive evaluation of phase
II activities. IFAD requested IWMI to develop TOR, but
not yet provided the resource |
In Pipeline |
| Pilot implementation
of irrigation system guidelines and evaluation in an integrated
community context (Joint
proposal of IWMI, Austrian Institution and NGO has been
developed and submitted to Austrian government funding)
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In Pipeline |
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