Sustaining land management interventions through integrating income generating activities, addressing local concerns and increasing women's participation (N6)

Amanda — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:16:00 +0000

This project intends to build on existing knowledge and programs in Natural Resources Management (NRM) and focuses on assessing impacts of different NRM interventions on ecosystem services (ES) at scales and livelihood that provide short-term incentives to support communities to adopt longer-term conservation approaches for restoring degraded landscapes in Ethiopian highlands. Particularly, this project will: a) investigate the spatial and temporal variations in regulating, provisioning and supporting ecosystem services (ES) following NRM intervention, b) test improved practices to stop gully development, and assesses the required incentives to sustain gully treatment and stabilization, c) define the different concerns of men and women regarding NRM interventions, and test ways and means of addressing those concerns, 4) investigate gender disaggregated benefits and tradeoffs of the interventions, 5) identify and test different short-term incentives required to sustain NRM interventions, and 6) explore ways to increase women?s and marginal groups participation in decision making. The project will be implemented in 15 watersheds.

Contact Person

Bori, Wolde Mekuria <w.bori@cgiar.org>

Lead Center

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Donors

CGIAR

Partners

ARARI - Amhara Regional Agricultural Research Institute, BDU - Bahir Dar University, IWMI - International Water Management Institute, MoANR - Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources (Ethiopia)

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2015 — June 30, 2017

Research ThemeEnhancing Sustainable Agriculture

Cluster

5.2 Testing, refining and integrating approaches and tools to effectively deliver sustainable agriculture/NRM programs across scales

Countries

Ethiopia

Greater Mekong Program on Water Governance

Amanda — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:05:00 +0000

WLE aims to support national governments, private investors and donor agencies to better target investments in water, land, energy and agriculture so that they are sustainable and socially inclusive, and national growth and poverty goals can be met without degrading the natural resource base. In the Mekong, the programme’s objective is to generate and share the knowledge and practice needed to improve the governance and management of water resources in the Greater Mekong Region. Together with partners, WLE -Greater Mekong contributes new tools and approaches to better Natural Resources Development and management that account for ecosystem values and services.

Contact Person

Geheb, Kim and Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali <s.senaratnasellamuttu@cgiar.org>

Lead Center

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Partners

AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology, CDRI - Cambodia Development Resource Institute, CU - Chulalongkorn University, ECOFISH - Ecofish Research Ltd., ICEM - International Centre for Environmental Management, IWMI - International Water Management Institute, UBU - Ubon Ratchathani University, UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, VAWR - Vietnam Academy for Water Resources, York University

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2014 — January 01, 2020

Research ThemeEnhancing Sustainable Agriculture

Cluster

5.2 Testing, refining and integrating approaches and tools to effectively deliver sustainable agriculture/NRM programs across scales

Countries

Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam