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This program, funded with $1 million, aims to validate and scale best practices in community-based integrated resource management (RWM) in the Amhara, Oromia, and Benshangul regions. Focusing on empowering direct beneficiaries, including poor farmers, women, and unemployed youth, it will foster participatory learning, strengthen grassroots organizations, and enhance stakeholder engagement. Key activities include establishing local knowledge systems, training community members, and improving research-extension linkages, ensuring sustainable adoption of RWM practices for long-term impact.
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Group 1 Amhara Oromia Benshangul Research University Donor CGIAR No Federal?
Program ideas Boundary conditions • 1 mill. USD • Short time • BNB
Program Topic Validation and Scaling out of Best Practices of RWM • Enhancing Community Based Integrated RWM • Ensuring Sustainable Adoption of Best Practices of RWM • Validation and Scaling out of Best Practices of RWM
Beneficiaries • Direct beneficiaries • Farmers in the basin (poor, women, unemployed) • Community based service providers and self-help groups • Indirect beneficiaries • Private enterprises involve in the value chain system • Input and credit service providers • Extension
Approach Grass Root Level Capacity Development and Empowerment Establishing baseline Need assessment Local knowledge integration Community play role of facilitation of processes by themselves Strengthening grass root organizations/institutions • Planning: • community and stakeholder participation (bottom-up) • Implementation: • FREG, participatory learning /action research, test sites
Issues to be addressed in the program • Knowledge gap of implementers • No real participation of the community • Inadequate Research-extension linkage • No strong/well established input delivery system – technology products and supporting inputs • Poor value-chain for market • Role of credit and extension services
Boundary conditions Main activities • 1 mill. USD • Short time • BNB • Community empowerment • Organize and legalize community organizations and user groups (considering social strata or typology) • Equip with communication facility, learning tools • Application of learning tools – (WAT-a-GAME, participatory learning) • Train and empower the community for decision making on resources management, grant management, leadership, facilitation and ownership of processes • Capacity development • Training main actors – DAs, watershed committee, etc • Empower regulatory functions –enforce rules • Experience sharing • Strengthening facilities
Linkage and cooperation – engage in planning, implementation, M&E • Strengthen platforms at different levels • Value-chainsystem • Organize actors in the value chain – input, product • Strength marketing system • Research and extension • Selection of technologies and best practices – WHAT? and WHERE? • Action research (and validation) • Scaling out • Process and impact monitoring
M&E and learning • Quarterly reporting • Participatory M&E • Establish Community based M&E – eg. FREG, • Joint supervision and monitoring by actors/stakeholder platforms • Application of participatory M&E methods/models • Communication • Platforms • Learning tools – WAT-a-Game • FREG • Field days • Radio or mobile technology • Stakeholder coordination • Platforms
