Water, Land and Ecosystems - Western Africa

Community Movement for Rehabilitating Drying Springs of Yewol Mountain Watersheds at the heads of the Nile basin

Amanda — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 04:52:00 +0000

Yewol watershed in South Wollo Zone, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia is a drought-prone sub-district with occasional storms and rapidly changing climate. Farmers have recently abandoned the short rains, which used to produce about 30% of the food, due to unreliable and unpredictable rains. This project is designed to capitalize on the ongoing watershed initiative, which established multiple watershed management interventions and has created an institutional alliance between Wollo University, Amhara Agricultural Research Institute and the local governments.

Contact Person

Amede, Tilahun <T.amede@cgiar.org>

Lead Center

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Donors

CGIAR

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Partners

Government of Ethiopia, ICRISAT - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2017 — December 31, 2019

Research ThemeLand and Water Solutions

Cluster

2.1 ALWM Solutions for Resilient Smallholder Livelihood and Landscape Systems

Regions

Eastern Africa, Middle Africa, Southern Africa, Western Africa

Countries

Ethiopia

Topics:

Land Water

Agricultural Land and Water Management (ALWM) investment models for livelihood benefits

Amanda — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:10:00 +0000

Consolidates research/engagement across several initiatives, on profitability, feasibility, sustainability of AWLM for smallholder farming. Informs investors on where/how/when AWM technologies can work. The ALWM project funding under WLE continues to support identified gaps in farmer led irrigation projects and strongly builds on the ongoing work under the extension phase of Innovation Laboratory for Small Scale Irrigation (ILSSI), the IWMI-TATA Partnership (ITP), the recently funded project by SDC and Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) and the recently acquired GIZ project in India. The work under WLE aims at providing guidelines and tools for the private and public sector to sustainably out/upscale water lifting technologies and water solution packages as a bundle.

In 2020 and 2021 IWMI will use the scaling pathway for FLI under ILSSI with private sector and adapt these to identify scaling opportunities for suitable AWM solutions (irrigation and SWC) through public-private partnerships in 2 other African countries. Special emphasis will be given to ensuring that the scaling pathways is inclusive of women and youth. IWMI under WLE will initiate a solar review in 2020 to be completed in 2021 drawing on a review in Africa and Asia. The information available to establish a geodatabase on FLI for Ethiopia and Ghana was insufficient in 2019. In 2020 the scope is adapted by identifying changes in FLI irrigation using RS. Ministries, donors, private sector entities have requested access to the spatial information to guide investments in farmer-led irrigation.

Contact Person

Schmitter, Petra <p.schmitter@cgiar.org>

Lead Center

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Donors

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

Texas A&M University

Sir Ratan Tata & Allied Trust (SRTT)

Sir Dorabji Tata & Allied Trust (SDTT)

Global Affairs Canada

International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC)

Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC)

Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Partners

AMU - Arba Minch University, BDU - Bahir Dar University, FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute, ILRI - International Livestock Research Institute, IWMI - International Water Management Institute, MoFA - Ministry of Food and Agriculture (Ghana), Texas A&M University

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2017 — December 31, 2021

Cluster

2.1 ALWM Solutions for Resilient Smallholder Livelihood and Landscape Systems

Regions

Eastern Africa, Middle Africa, Southern Africa, Western Africa

Countries

Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Tanzania

Improving sustainability by better incorporating the environment in water trade-off assessments

Amanda — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 08:00:00 +0000

This project will support IWMI researchers who are contributing to international conventions and other prominent fora (e.g. IPBES, Ramsar, JAXA) through application of IWMI research. This involvement contributes to better assessment of trade-offs and how to manage them and highlights the value of WLE related research in an international arena.

Contact Person

McCartney, Matthew <m.mccartney@cgiar.org>

Lead Center

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Donors

CGIAR

Partners

IPBES - Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, IWMI - International Water Management Institute, JAXA - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Ramsar - The Ramsar Convention Secretariat

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2017 — December 31, 2021

Research ThemeVariability, Risks and Competing Uses

Cluster

4.2 Managing Competing Uses and Trade-offs

Regions

Central Asia, Eastern Africa, Middle East and North Africa, Southern Asia, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, Western Africa

Countries

Sri Lanka

Sustainable Groundwater

Amanda — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 06:42:00 +0000

The project takes an inter-disciplinary approach to understanding groundwater resources availability (renewability and storage) and variability/trends, dependence on the resource for agriculture and related uses, livelihoods and pathways to sustainable use in cooperation with local, national and international partners. It investigates the transboundary issues related to internationally shared aquifers and how joint approaches can build trust and further impetus for cooperation around long-term sustainability and use of the aquifer resources for increased resilience in the face of climate change.

This project supports RAMOTSWA, Groundwater Solutions Initiative for Policy and Practice (GRIPP), and liaises with UN-Water and other global international organisations on issue of sustainable groundwater use.

Activities under this project include:

Groundwater Futures in SSA Phase 2

GroFutures will apply new geophysical techniques and compile long-term observations of groundwater levels from the Network of Groundwater Obsevatories (NAGO) to substantially improve knowledge of the renewability and volume of groundwater in Sub-Saharan Africa.

GroFutures will also develop an inclusive, participatory framework for groundwater governance in which the views of poor women and men are considered together with the trade-offs associated with groundwater development pathways.

Resilience in the Limpopo Basin: the Potential Role of the Transboundary Ramotswa Aquifer (RAMOTSWA)

The overall objective of the project is to support a long-term joined vision and cooperation on the shared groundwater resources of the upper Limpopo region where the states potentially share significant and valuable freshwater underground resources as well as space for enhanced water storage. The project will facilitate joint management and better groundwater governance focused on coordination, scientific knowledge, social redress and environmental sustainability, in order to reduce poverty and inequities and to increase prosperity, livelihoods and food security in face of climate chance and variability.

Understanding Recharge in the Limpopo River Basin (GRECHLIM)

The GRECHLIM project will increase the capacity to assess groundwater resources, and in particular groundwater recharge, among students at the University of the Witwatersrand. It will also contribute to improving methodologies and practices for groundwater assessments and management among the national and local partners responsible for water supply and management in the Limpopo River Basin.

Transboundary Ramotswa Aquifer -II

The overall objective of the RAMOTSWA Project is to support a long-term joint vision and cooperation on the shared groundwater resources of the Limpopo River Basin and build a community of practice around transboundary aquifer management in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region. The project will facilitate joint management and better groundwater governance focused on coordination, scientific knowledge, social redress and environmental sustainability, in order to reduce poverty and inequities and to increase prosperity, livelihoods and food security in the face of current climate variability future climate change.

Contact Person

Villholth, Karen <k.villholth@cgiar.org>

Lead Center

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Donors

UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)

Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)

CGIAR

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark

Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Department for International Development (DFID), United Kingdom

Partners

AGWT - American Ground Water Trust, Aquamatters, AWARD - African Women in Agricultural Research and Development, AWDROP - Association of Water Well Drilling Rig Owners and Practitioners, AWRA - American Water Resources Association, BGR - Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe / Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, BGS - British Geological Survey, CAWR - Center for Advanced Water Research, DHI, GEF - Global Environment Facility, Government of Botswana, Government of Denmark, Government of South Africa, Government of Uttar Pradesh (India), Government of Zimbabwe, HRNS - Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung, IAH - International Association of Hydrogeologists, ICAR - Indian Council of Agricultural Research, IDS - Institute of Development Studies, IGES - Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, IRHA - International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance, IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature, IWMI - International Water Management Institute, KickStart International, MetaMeta, NCGRT - National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training, NERC - Natural Environment Research Council, NGWA - National Ground Water Association, NUOL - National University of Laos, OKACOM - The Permanent Okavango River Basin Water Commissio, OSS - Sahara and Sahel Observatory (Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel), Peace Parks Foundation, SADC-GMI - South African Development Community - Groundwater Management Institute, Sanitech, SANParks - South African National Parks, SKAT - Swiss Resource Centre and Consultancies for Development (Skat Consulting Ltd.), SuSanA - Sustainable Sanitation Alliance, SWM - Smart Water Metering, SYSU - Sun Yat-Sen University , TU Dresden - University of Dresden, UB - University of Botswana, UCL - University College London, UCPH - University of Copenhagen, UNDP - United Nations Development Programme, UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, University of Strathclyde, University of the Western Cape, UNL - University of Nebraska, UNU-INWEH - United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health , USAID - U.S. Agency for International Development, WUC - Water Utilities Corporation (Botswana), ZAMCOM - Zambezi Watercourse Commission

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2015 — December 31, 2021

Research ThemeVariability, Risks and Competing Uses

Cluster

4.1 Risks associated with water variability mitigated

Regions

Eastern Africa, Middle East and North Africa, Southern Asia, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, Western Africa

Countries

Botswana, Ethiopia, India, Laos, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Vietnam

From documenting impacts to enabling actions: Strengthening capacity for incorporating malaria control into planning and management of water infrastructure

Amanda — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 06:17:00 +0000

Building on a much-publicized WLE project establishing relationships between dams and malaria in Africa, this work will generate and promote adoption of guidance that improves the way in which water infrastructure is planned and managed, to enhance the contributions of such infrastructure to health, food security and the environment. Specifically, the work will determine and compare the malaria impacts of large and small dams in Africa, as well as assign importance major variables presumed to influence variation in such impacts, to generate predictive guidelines for infrastructure planning and management. These guidelines will in turn be disseminated to basin authorities in Africa.

Contact Person

Lautze, Jonathan <j.lautze@cgiar.org>

Lead Center

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Donors

CGIAR

Partners

IWMI - International Water Management Institute

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2017 — January 31, 2020

Research ThemeVariability, Risks and Competing Uses

Cluster

4.1 Risks associated with water variability mitigated

Regions

Eastern Africa, Middle East and North Africa, Southern Asia, Western Africa

Resource Recovery from waste for Reuse (RRR) Capacity development and Outreach

Amanda — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 05:59:00 +0000

This project supports the development of RRR curriculum, RRR/RUL publication series, an RRR tool box, global databases (with FAO) and the outreach of Flagship 3 at major conferences. In addition, GlobE - UrbanFood Plus is mapped to this overarching project.

GlobE - UrbanFood Plus

IWMI is contributing regional expertise on urban food systems and nutrient flows to different sub-projects (SPs) of the larger GlobE (Urban Food Plus) project , in particular for the supervision of PhD students, support of field trials and activity backstopping. This is the second part of of the ongoing 5 year project, co-funded by BMBF and BMZ.

Contact Person

Drechsel, Pay <p.drechsel@cgiar.org>

Lead Center

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Donors

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

University of Kassel

CGIAR

Partners

AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology, CEWAS, IWMI - International Water Management Institute, Ministry of Agriculture (Sri Lanka), RUAF - RUAF Foundation, UNEP / UN Enviroment - The United Nations Environment Programme

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2017 — December 31, 2021

Research ThemeRural-Urban Linkages

Cluster

3.2 Business Options for Nutrient, Water and Energy Recovery and Reuse

Regions

Global, Southern Asia, Western Africa

Countries

Burkina Faso, Ghana, India, Sri Lanka

Support of RRR Business Development, Implementation and Scaling-up

Amanda — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 05:47:00 +0000

This project combines several smaller projects on RRR investment climate analysis, business models, and gender analysis. The activities are as follows:

Septage Management & Collection Pattern: Septage Characterisation and Study on Septage Management & Collection Pattern for Negombo Municipality (NEWRI)

To carry out septage characterisation for Negombo Municipality in Sri Lanka to develop a plan for implementation phase of the project.

Solid waste management in North SL-Ph II

The objective of the intervention is to strengthen the integrated solid waste management process and build the capacities of the local authorities in safe wastewater management, water quality monitoring and coordination in the districts of Batticaloa, Vavuniya and Mannar; The expected outputs of the project are 1. Training of relevant stakeholders to support sustainability of compost plants in Batticaloa district; 2. Assessment of effectiveness of wastewater treatment systems (a. Vavuniya town and b. Vavuniya Hospital), local operational capacity, and the need to include further infrastructure measures for health and environmental risks mitigation; 3. Recommendations on adapting existing training and capacity building initiatives of the local stakeholders involved with or responsible for the provision of wastewater management services in the Vavuniya district, also in view of sanitation safety planning; and 4. Recommendations on sustainable municipal solid waste management strategies for the Mannar district.

Training Program for FSM

The program targets existing entrepreneurs and organizations to move into treatment and re-use solutions in sanitation, by lowering the barriers and risks to move into this sector. The program will provide technical assistance, leverage existing infrastructure as much as possible (reducing capex

funding dependency at an early stage) and enable local business partners in developing viable business models. These business models will be based on existing business models and innovations from around the globe and adapted / replicated to the local Indian context. In the context of this program, Enviu wishes to award a sub grant to IWMI for its international network and expertise in the field of Fecal Sludge Management (FSM) business models, execution of feasibility studies and technical support to entrepreneurs.

RRR impact and up-scaling

The goal of the programme is to reduce rural poverty and improve the sustainability of food production and environmental security in Africa by addressing multiple aspects of development in landscapes, river basins and regions. The overarching objectives of this multifaceted programme are to: Improve food, environmental security and governance in selected areas through simultaneous development of multiple ecosystem services (soil, water, biodiversity); Improve water and soil nutrient management at landscape and basin scales to support rural and peri-urban livelihoods; Enhance local stakeholder capacities to take informed decisions on the provision of services and goods related to adopting effective agricultural water management solutions and other innovations pertinent to resource management practices, institutions and policies.

Contact Person

Nikiema, Josiane <j.nikiema@cgiar.org>

Lead Center

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Donors

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT-AU)

Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS)

United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)

Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

U.S. Department of State

Partners

IWMI - International Water Management Institute, JVL - Jekora Ventures Ltd

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2017 — December 31, 2021

Research ThemeRural-Urban Linkages

Cluster

3.2 Business Options for Nutrient, Water and Energy Recovery and Reuse

Regions

Southern Asia, Western Africa

Countries

Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka

Alternative Pathways to improve electricity access and Energy Roadmaps Development and Energy access in the Eastern Nile - water and food implications

Amanda — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 06:34:00 +0000

Assess implications for food and water security from alternative energy development pathways. This project combines a project in Ethiopia and one in Pakistan to improve energy development.

The second part of this project involves developing a regional energy model for the Eastern Nile that incorporates energy export and import and assess related water and food implications to support the Nile Basin Initiative that is looking for alternatives to contentious water sharing challenges. The impact on greenhouse gas emissions will be assessed.

Contact Person

Mondal, Alam <a.mondal@cgiar.org>

Lead Center

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Donors

Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI)

CGIAR

Partners

IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2017 — December 31, 2018

Research ThemeVariability, Risks and Competing Uses

Cluster

4.2 Managing Competing Uses and Trade-offs

Regions

Eastern Africa, Middle Africa, Southern Africa, Western Africa

Countries

Ethiopia, Pakistan

Science-policy exchange processes and learning alliance around strengthening the role of ecosystem services for increased resilience of investments in sustainable intensification (and Agent Based Modeling (ABM) framework)

Amanda — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 06:24:00 +0000

This activity involves use of online decision support tools developed in previous WLE project for the Niger River Basin and the Mekong River basin. The design of these online tools is based on the notion of agent-based modeling and allows for stakeholders in the river basin to express their options for water resources development of river basin and explore how their decisions could interact with the options of other stakeholders and influence the ecosystem services provided by the water resources in the basin. To this end, a seminar will be held to generate real-time responses and gather unfiltered feedback on the utility & design of the online tools. We will also monitor the status of the use of the online tools, improve the system design/performance given the feedback, and analyze the stakeholder input data collected by the online system to generate insight into in a real world situation how stakeholders in a river basin could compete and collaborate in future water resources development activities.

This project is also contains a generic ABM framework for complex ecosystem service analyses in WLE focal regions.

Contact Person

Ringler, Claudia <C.RINGLER@CGIAR.ORG>

Lead Center

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Donors

CGIAR

Partners

IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute, IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Lehigh University, RIVERFUTURES LTD, University of Illinois, Wetlands International

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2017 — December 31, 2017

Research ThemeEnhancing Sustainable Agriculture

Cluster

4.1 Risks associated with water variability mitigated

Regions

Eastern Africa, Middle East and North Africa, Southern Africa, Western Africa

Watershed management practices under changing landuse practices in the semi-arid region of Mali and Niger

Amanda — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 05:30:00 +0000

This research builds on the existing data collection and knowledge generated on watershed management practices in southern Mali since August 2015. The research is aimed at providing scalable technologies proven to be successful in Asia, East Africa and parts of Mali through integrated watershed management approach. At the farm/plot level the focus is on evaluating the impacts of in-field soil and water conservation practices. At watershed scale, existing land and water management practices will be assessed and evaluated under changing landuse systems. Community perception on land and water management practices will be evaluated to develop support strategies for longer-term conservation approaches and agricultural productivity improvement. Particularly, this project will:

(a) evaluate the impact of in-field soil and water conservation practices on runoff and erosion rate and crop yield,

(b) investigate the spatial and temporal variations of land management interventions under changing land use practices,

(c) evaluate community perception (gender disaggregated) on farm level in-field soil and water conservation interventions, and test ways to promote wider adoption, and

(d) integration and evaluation of contour bunding and agroforestry systems on crop-livestock productivity.

The impact of soil and water conservation practices (contour bunding) on socioeconomic aspects and biophysical systems have been evaluated and results are published. The work in 2021 involves evaluating crop-livestock productivity and household income through the use of contour bunding and agroforestry options.

Contact Person

Zemadim, Birhanu <Z.Birhanu@cgiar.org>

Lead Center

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Partners

ICRISAT - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, IER - Institut d’Economie Rurale (Mali)

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2017 — January 31, 2021

Research ThemeLand and Water Solutions

Cluster

2.1 ALWM Solutions for Resilient Smallholder Livelihood and Landscape Systems

Regions

Western Africa

Countries

Mali

Topics:

Land Water

Water, Land and Ecosystems - Western Africa

Community Movement for Rehabilitating Drying Springs of Yewol Mountain Watersheds at the heads of the Nile basin

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