1. CPWF Science Progress Report
May-October 2011
Alain Vidal, CPWF Director
Larry Harrington, CPWF Research Director

2. Outline
Early results and trends in our six basins
Developing science and messages
influencing the global agenda
 Media outreach
 Meta-synthesis
Integration into CRP5 – JVA
evolution

3. Six basins active
Projects already started
Inception workshop Oct 2011
Operational
Operational
Operational Operational
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4. Research programs on BDCs
Focus on a “basin development challenge”
In a basin
Coherent, integrated research program
 Technologies, policies, institutions, governance
 Whole basin consequences of change
 Spatial targeting of innovations
 Multiple partners
 Evidence to inform dialogue/ innovation platforms

5. Andes system of basins
Benefit-sharing mechanisms
Upstream x downstream
Externalities
Generate more benefits and
share them more equitably
Foster evidence-based dialogue
Evidence on
hydrology, ecosystem
services, investment
opportunities, poverty

6. Ganges
Freshwater storage
Increase freshwater storage
in Ganges delta’s polders
Develop governance
mechanisms for allocation
of stored freshwater
Use stored water to
stabilize rainy season
production
intensify and diversify
dry season production

7. Limpopo
Rainwater management and
value chains
Strengthen agricultural value
chains where market-related
failures contribute to poverty
Innovation platforms:
stakeholders develop solutions
for improved livelihoods
Implications for water
management, access, governa
nce, infrastructure

8. Mekong
Hydropower and livelihoods
Improve how hydropower is
designed, managed and
operated
Mitigate negative impacts and
improve livelihoods
Dialogue processes/multi-
stakeholder platforms to
monitor and apply research
findings

9. Nile
Rainwater management and
landscapes
Historical perspective on
rainwater management
Constraints to
adoption, institutional
arrangements, research gaps
Fitting land and water
management innovations to
landscape niches
Innovation platforms

10. Volta
Rainwater and small
reservoirs
Hydrology, management, mult
iple uses, health, policy and
institutional aspects of
rainwater and small reservoirs
Capture common threads
driving innovations across the
basin, evaluate ecosystem
services to enhance
resilience, and analyze
shaping of policies and
institutions

11. Media Outreach
from our Phase 1 science
Joint IWMI-CPWF campaign for SWWW
 Focused on IWMI-UNEP report “An Ecosystem Services Approach to
Water and Food Security”
 Good example of future IWMI-CPWF collaboration
Campaign for IWRA Congress
 Launching the Basin Focal Project Special Issue Journal
series
 “Water scarcity is not the only issue”: major impact with
the media and on international events: Rome Sharefair,
Bonn conference on water-energy-food nexus, WWF6
Marseilles, Rio+20
IFWF3 on 14-17 November 2011
And more - ARDD at COP17, Planet under Pressure
conference London 2012, …

12. Meta-Synthesis

13. MS aims and process
Pull together major findings from CPWF Phase 1 projects
Place them in the context of findings from Basin Focal
Projects and the Comprehensive Assessment
Link them with the Phase 2 work program
Process: guided by editorial team, aim to produce special
issues of journals, book

14. Some areas emerging from MS
Water scarcity: importance of quality, timing and access
Water productivity:
 Practical difficulties in increasing water productivity in rainfed areas
 Using stored water for high value off-season
production, importance of market value chains
Tailoring land and water management practices to biophysical and
socioeconomic “niches”
Widespread use of principles of conservation agriculture
Research evidence to inform dialogue, negotiation, policy, investment
Added value from non-traditional partners

15. Integration into CRP5 - JVA Evolution
Governance and management integration behind us
JVA Evolution
 CPWF AC wants to maintain partners’ ownership and CPWF mandate and
vision while integrating into CRP5, and to identify ways of ensuring the
impact of research-for-development with partners outside CRP5
 JVA kept in force in its current form during transition period
 As CRP5 starts, AC terminates the JVA and active members sign a CPWF
Partnership Agreement with IWMI
 CRP5 PIA (Program Implementation Agreement) refers to CPWF program
and activities and to CPWF Partnership Agreement
 CPWF Partnership Agreement placed under the oversight of the CRP5
Steering Committee

16. Thank you