Presentation of CPWF 6-month progress report made in Vientiane on 21 April 2012 before the IWMI Board Program Committee

1. CPWF Science Progress Report
November 2011 – April 2012
Alain Vidal, CPWF Director

2. Outline
3rd International Forum on Water and Food
Developing science and messages influencing the
global agenda
Early results from our six basins

3. IFWF3 highlights – the story
 CPWF is all about evidence but  300+ participants
must do more to ensure quality  Research partners, decision
evidence is made available makers, donors, media
 CPWF needs to maintain its  Mesh of Basin, TWG, local-to-
relevance and accessibility for a global, global-to-local
way beyond the science  Global social media and
community traditional media coverage
 Gender matters – more needed  Interactive, dynamic and
 Young Professionals need real innovative
recognition  Federating
 CPWF is rooted in the local –  Closing of the gaps between
sincerely global science – development – policy
 CPWF in Africa

4. IFWF3 – the real story
Multitude of case studies
Evidence emerging from all
projects
Wide buy-into a model for
carrying out AR4D
Real challenge from insiders-outsiders to step up to
the challenge of demonstrating the evidence and
taking the space offered at the policy table
CPWF able to ask itself tough questions, bring in
external view, extend its partnerships

5. New CPWF messages
Overall message: Despite challenges in many river basins, overall the
planet has enough water to meet the full range of people’s and
ecosystems’ needs for the foreseeable future, but equity will only be
achieved through judicious and creative management.
 Message 1. Wise use of our water resources for strengthening (rural) livelihoods
and ecosystem services requires simultaneously using it more productively and
sharing water and its benefits more equitably.
 Message 2. Higher water productivity and greater social equity can be obtained
only through a radical in change of policies and institutional arrangements in both
developed and developing nations.
 Message 3. The CPWF R4D strategy identified and promotes the policy, institutional
and technological innovations required in developing countries for people to
increase water productivity and ecosystem services in an equitable and sustainable
manner.
Very good echo in recent major global events: WWF6, PUP 2012

7. Andes: Benefit-sharing mechanisms
and their low hanging fruits
Trust funds and local dialogues
established
Upstream ecosystems restored
Benefits downstream through
improved pastures supporting
community dairy production
Consolidating Andes experience
as a world-laboratory on BSMs
Scaling out in Uganda and Nepal

8. Ganges: Freshwater storage for
improved livelihoods in polders
Well managed short duration
aman rice varieties double
yield
Improving local institutions to
ensure hardware maintenance
and improvement
Key to use stored water to
stabilize rainy season
production
intensify and diversify dry
season production

9. Limpopo: Rainwater management
and value chains
Strengthen agricultural value
chains where market-related
failures contribute to poverty
Success of community
innovation platforms depends
on trust among the actors and
sufficient incentives
Appropriate technologies must
fit existing livelihood systems
and include socially acceptable
incentives

10. Mekong: Hydropower and livelihoods
Techniques, land and water uses
identified that can increase
benefits available to riparian
communities
Fish-rice systems
Artificial wetlands in reservoirs
Add value for both dam builders
and communities
Dialogue processes identified
institutional weaknesses in the
ways regulations are
implemented

11. Nile: Rainwater management and
landscapes
Rainwater management
interventions to target
landscapes, linking bio-physical
drivers with socio-economic
factors
Suitability map considering key
limiting factors: erosion, rainfall
regimes, soil fertility and
enterprise choices
Development of innovation
platforms in 3 different
landscapes

12. Volta: Rainwater and small reservoirs
Identified successes (soil-water
conservation, small
reservoirs, and small pumps)
and failures (culture and
gender-sensitivity)
Integration of maintenance
costs in project budgets and
capacity building of actors
(mostly farmers)
Resilience analysis helps
evaluate common threads
driving or limiting innovations

13. Thank you