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David Molden, IWMI and Francis Gichuki, University of Nairobi

Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture: Contributing to the knowledge base on water, food and nature. David Molden, IWMI and Francis Gichuki, University of Nairobi. Why Another Global Exercise?.

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David Molden, IWMI and Francis Gichuki, University of Nairobi

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  1. Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture: Contributing to the knowledge base on water, food and nature David Molden, IWMI and Francis Gichuki, University of Nairobi

  2. Why Another Global Exercise? • We face a water crisis that is driven by how water is developed and managed in agriculture • Let us directly address the problem to get the solution - water management in agriculture • Not addressed directly in Millenium Ecosystem Assessment, World Water Development Report, CA will complement these.

  3. Relationship with other programmes

  4. What is Comprehensive Assessment Programme? The Comprehensive Assessment is an international research program whose goal is to investigate questions of water used in agriculture and to develop more precise understanding of the water-food-nature interactions in developing countries.

  5. Objectives of Comprehensive Assessment • Provide credible information and tools to make wise investment, policy and management decisions • Foster capacity building to apply this information and tools • Uptake of Information

  6. CA’s main themes

  7. Main elements of the knowledge base

  8. Global National / Basin Local

  9. Outputs • Benefits, costs, and impacts of water management in agriculture assessed. • Innovative approaches identified and their role in food and environmental security assessed. • Key information gaps filled. • Future water, food and environment Scenarios defined and explored.

  10. Outputs - cont’d • Conceptual and analytical toolsdeveloped and applied • Capacity building activities at the national, local and community levels • Interaction with the Global Dialogue on Water, Food and Environment and other global initiatives

  11. Scope • Multi-scale - • global, national, basin, local • nested structure • Multi-stakeholder - • policy makers, • resource managers at different levels • 5 years (2002-2006)

  12. Main Milestones • The first key milestones are the 3rd World Water Forum. At this point, most of the major review works and initial analysis will have been complete giving input into the Challenge Program’s research program. Initial results of reviews, analysis and synthesis will be presented at the 3rd World Water Forum. • Second milestone is the 4th World Water forum when field studies, analysis, and synthesis will be presented.

  13. The Assessment • Forward Looking - what are options for the future? • A stock taking exercise - what is the situation now, what has worked, and failed? • A chance to fill critical gaps • A chance to work in a broader water community

  14. Types of Projects • Global Data and Analysis • Basin and Local Case Studies • Analysis of Innovations • what is the potential for various innovations? • What is the significance of? • Does the information have relevance elsewhere? • Importance of synthesis

  15. Purpose for basin case studies • to contribute to addressing IWRM challenges by generating, synthesizing and disseminating useful information and knowledge on basin level water management and trade-offs (e.g. between agriculture and environment, between upstream and downstream users, etc).

  16. Main activities • Review of available literature; • Identify potential case study contributions and determine the sample for the comparative study; • Carry-out case studies; • Synthesize and cross-analyze the different studies • Disseminate results

  17. Case study focus (1) Understanding process and interactions • Water accounting (uses, demand and supply) • Water allocation mechanisms • Impacts of different interventions (deforestation, reservoir operations, irrigation management, pollution, etc)

  18. Case study focus (2) Understanding trade-offs • Upstream-downstream (water resources use, storage, land use, etc) • Between and among uses and users • Institutions issues (balance between govt vs local, private vs public, market vs regulation, etc) • In investment decisions (which basins, which sector, upstream or downstream, structural vs non-structural measures, etc)

  19. Case study focus (3) Identifying management options in different contexts • Conflict management • Resource conservation and allocation • Combination of interventions (policy, governance, institutional, infrastructural, markets, regulatory, etc)

  20. Partnerships • CG Centers, NARES, IARCS,NGOs • Partners - take responsibility for overall output • Participating Organizations - involved in various projects

  21. Types of Projects • Contributed Projects - on-going projects of participants that fit goals of the Assessment • Directly Funded Projects - Participating organizations independently submit proposals, manage projects, results feed CA

  22. Thank You

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