Or “The Multiple Water Use Project” Or “The MUS Project”

1. Global Project“Models for ImplementingMultiple-Use Water Systemsfor Enhanced Land and Water Productivity, Rural Livelihoodsand Gender Equity” Or “The Multiple Water Use Project”Or “The MUS Project”

2. Five lead partners

3. Budget over four years: $ 2.45 million $ 1.6 million $ 0.15 million $ 0.7 million Matching funds lead partners

4. Project Outputs • Global and national awareness of science-based and field-tested models, guidelines and tools for multiple-use schemes. 2. Enhanced capacity to implement and study those schemes and elicit their 100-fold upscaling within five years after the project.

5. Location 4 5 3 1 2 Mekong (Thailand) Nile (Ethiopia) Andes (Colombia & Bolivia) 3 1 5 Indus-Ganges (India & Nepal) Limpopo (Zimbabwe & South Africa) 4 2

6. De facto multiple uses of single-use planned water systems: Problemor Opportunity ? Rationale

7. Opportunities of m.u.s. approaches • Meeting broader water needs of women and men (health, freedom from drudgery, income from crops, livestock, fish, businesses)

8. Opportunities of m.u.s. approaches • Meeting broader water needs of women and men (health, freedom from drudgery, income from crops, livestock, fish, businesses) • Improving scheme sustainability by avoiding ‘illegal’ uses, damage, and deviation from planned allocations

9. Opportunities of m.u.s. approaches • Meeting broader water needs of women and men (health, freedom from drudgery, income from crops, livestock, fish, businesses) • Improving scheme sustainability by avoiding ‘illegal’ uses, damage, and deviation from planned allocations • Investing low incremental costs for high additional benefits

10. Opportunities of m.u.s. approaches • Meeting broader water needs of women and men (health, freedom from drudgery, income from crops, livestock, fish, businesses) • Improving scheme sustainability by avoiding ‘illegal’ uses, damage, and deviation from planned allocations • Investing low incremental costs for high additional benefits • Improving ability to pay for ‘domestic’ schemes

11. Opportunities of m.u.s. approaches • Meeting broader water needs of women and men (health, freedom from drudgery, income from crops, livestock, fish, businesses) • Improving scheme sustainability by avoiding ‘illegal’ uses, damage, and deviation from planned allocations • Investing low incremental costs for high additional benefits • Improving ability to pay for ‘domestic’ schemes • Allowing for massive upscaling

12. Opportunities of m.u.s. approaches In sum: A m.u.s. approach is the most effective way to use water for poverty alleviation and gender equity in rural and peri-urban areas

13. Opportunities of m.u.s. approaches

14. Generic Methodology • New partnerships: domestic and productive water sectors; researchers and implementers • Action Research – Learning by Doing • Through ‘Learning Alliances’ at local, intermediate, national and international level • Around a research framework of 12 principles for a m.u.s. approach

15. Strategy • Methodology • Action research to develop tools and methodologies • Using a principle-based approach • Scaling up • Learning about Multiple Use water Services (MUS) through learning alliances • Learning about learning alliances for scaling up MUS

16. Project framework • Focus at 3 levels: • National – an enabling framework of policy, legislation, and resource allocation • Intermediate – coordination and long term support mechanisms • Local – implementation and management • Principles for implementation and scaling up at each level • Principles provide a checklist helping to identify questions to ask, and actions to take, in each phase of action research • Leading to action results, and learning about the process

17. National Flows of information and communication Intermediate Flows of information and communication Community

18. Community Level Ownership and understanding of MUS and its impact Enabling environment at intermediate level Thorough understanding of poor people’s water-based livelihoods Proper financial models Implementing a sustainable, equitable and effective MUS approach for improved livelihoods- principles to be addressed in the different phases of the project cycle at community level Effective and inclusive community institutions Sustainable use of available water resources and services Appropriate technology

19. Coordination of planning, implementation and financing among intermediate level stakeholders Intermediate Level Participatory project cycles followed in implementation programmes Enabling environment at national level Enabling environment for implementing and scaling up a sustainable, equitable and effective MUS approach; principles at intermediate/service provider level Intermediate level institutions to support communities in operation and maintenance and other support to MUS Ownership and understanding of MUS and its impacts among all intermediate level stakeholders Resources exist among intermediate level stakeholders to implement and upscale MUS Capacity to follow a learning approach to MUS among intermediate level organisations

20. Ownership and understanding of MUS and its impacts among national level stakeholders National Level Coordination of planning, implementation and financing of MUS among national level organisations that enables coordination among intermediate level stakeholders National policies, legislation, norms and standards allow for integrated participatory project cycles at local and enabling intermediate level Implementing and scaling up a sustainable, equitable and effective MUS approach; principles at national level for an enabling environment National water policies, legislation, and implementation programs allocate resources to enhance physical access of the poor to an equitable share of water for multiple uses Capacity to support a learning approach to MUS among intermediate level organisations National water policies and legislation, and their enforcement strategies, enhance legal access of the poor to an equitable share of water for multiple uses

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23. Conclusions • Need for integrated approaches to address people’s multiple water needs • Approach based on innovating and scaling-up at the same time • Aiming to address relevant issues at all levels: national, district and community