CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems

1. CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems An Overview for Science Focal Meeting Amman, December 2013

2. Contents • Over-view of WLE – Goals, Objectives • Emerging WLE Program Areas of Work • How we are organized • Examples of innovation & how WLE intends to work

3. The challenges facing our global food production systems

4. Water Land and Ecosystem Vision: A world in which agriculture thrives within vibrant ecosystems, where communities have higher incomes, improved food security and the ability to continuously improve their lives

5. Goal: Sustainable intensification of agricultural development • WLE IDO: Productivity • Improved land, water and energy productivity in rainfed and irrigated agro-ecosystem CGIAR System Level Outcomes Reduce rural poverty Increase food security Improve nutrition and human health Sustainable management of natural resources • WLE IDO: Equity • Increased resilience of communities through enhanced ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes. • WLE IDO: Income • Increased and more equitable incomefrom agricultural and natural resources management and ecosystem services in rural and peri-urban areas • WLE IDO: Risk Management • Increased ability of low income communities to adapt to environmental and economic variability, demographic shifts, shocks and long term changes • WLE IDO: Gender • Women and marginalized groups have decision making power over and increased benefits derived from agriculture and natural resources.

6. WLE Portfolio 2013/2014 Activities Mapped into SRPs and Activity Clusters Focal Region Activities WLE Innovation Fund • 2013 CPWF Related Activities ending in 2013/2014 • Regional Representation • Design of focal region programs • 160 Activities mapped into SRPs • ESS Related Scoping Activities • Gender related activities • Moving promising activities to scale • Centrality of partners • Gender and ESS play central role

7. Where WLE is moving toward SRP Led Global Pathways Cross-Cutting Initiatives Focal Regions • Examples • Resource Recovery & Reuse • Land Degradation • Water, Food & Energy Nexus • Small Scale Irrigation in SSA • Salinity • Environmental flows • Mapping ESS and resilience into Focal Regions • Gender across program • Information decision-making West Africa SE Asia East Africa South Asia Southern Africa Latin America Central Asia Middle East

8. WLE Uptake Framework: CGIAR/ISPC Impact Pathways/Theories of Change System Level Outcomes

9. WLE uptake strategy: significant focus on the research client System Level Outcomes

10. In each focal region, WLE is identifying the “opportunity space” for research to support client decision making WLE integrated portfolio of research is designed to capitalize on this opportunity

11. Example of client focus: WLE resource recovery and reuse Issue: Urban areas are growing and consuming more resources. How do we recover nutrients and water at scale? Technical knowledge is available, but few projects go to scale. WLE seeks to change this by analyzing business models and returns on investment. Clear client focus: the private sector, public private partnerships, and business schools • The research portfolio is designed for the client: analyze successes and test promising business models for replication at scale • Multi-disciplinary research team includes economists, business developers, and environmental scientists Faecal sludge Nutrients for agricultural production

12. Supporting research client decision making through decision analysis System Level Outcomes Accountability (M&E)

13. Example: the decision analysis process Northeast Kenya: Tap the Merti aquifer to pump water > 100 km to town of Waiir? Identify risks and uncertainties in decision of interest Engage decision makers Make probabilistic cost/benefit impacts on different stakeholder groups of likely outcomes of decision Compute value of additional information (uncertain variables with high information value = priorities for measurement) Probabilistic outcomes (benefits/negative impacts) for different stakeholder groups Applied Information Economics D. Hubbard, “How to Measure Anything”, 2010

14. Focused partner engagement, levers and incentives System Level Outcomes Accountability (M&E)

15. CPWF/Andes: uptake incentives through benefit sharing • Canete River Basin, Peru • Upper basin: subsistence agriculture, extensive degrading • Middle basin: hydropower company • Lower basin: urban and tourism • Farmers receive training and capital to : • Rehabilitate wetlands • Forest conservation • Improve farming practices $

16. Lead Center Board How we are organized • Lead Center DG • WLE Steering Committee Program Director • WLE Operations Team • Resource Persons • Management Committee • Focal Regions • Science Focal • Points Program Management GPI West Africa Mekong GMS SRP Leaders GPI Lead ESS/R Lead ME&L Comms/KM South Asia East Africa Research Coord. Southern Africa Latin America Central Asia Middle East

17. Partnership for Outcomes DELIVER RESEARCH OUTCOMES – impact multiplies through partners GLOBAL • Global initiatives informed and inspired by research, support national and landscape investments FAO, GSP, UNCCD, ELD, GEF, UNEP, UNDP NATIONAL REGIONAL • New investments made by IFAD, GIZ, GEF • Public and private • Policy, Regulation, Incentives support adoption 0 – 6 years 3 – 6 years 6 – 9 years National Agriculture and NRM policy CAADP, IFAD, GIZ, SDC LANDSCAPE Strategies adopted that are site specific, gender & equity sensitive Communities, civil society, NGO’s, national extension, ARI’s, IFAD, SDC Potential beneficiaries 10s of thousands 100’s of thousands Millions

18. Capacity Building • Embedded into Impact Pathways • Beyond PhDs and training • Mentoring and Young Professionals • Putting national partners in the lead

19. Challenges for Us to Address • Vision for where we are going • Complexity and adaptation: We cannot solve complex problems with simple solutions • Integration and working together • Change management

20. Thank you Visit the website at: WLE.cgiar.org