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Sub-Saharan Africa Challenge Program
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Climate change, agriculture and food security
CPWF aims to increase the resilience of social and ecological systems through better water management for food production Through its broad partnerships, it conducts research that leads to impact on the poor and to policy change
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CPWF MT
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G5 C&C project
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Technical projects
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CPWF Partners
NARES University Government Organization CGIAR Center Network Advanced Research Institute Non- Governmental Organization Research Organization Private Sector River Basin Organization No info TOTAL no. orgs in network
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50,000 B.C.: Gak Eisenberg invents the first and last silent mammoth whistle
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Through co-developing theory of change Through partnership Through working at different scales While ensuring integration of research and
knowledge management
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Benefits of ToC
Developing and agreeing project ToC with partners and stakeholders helps build commitment; purpose Helps set priorities Basis for M&E Basis for comms and uptake strategy Aids subsequent reflection; helps justify course corrections
Improvements in poverty alleviation, food security and the state of natural resources result from dynamic, interactive, non-linear, and generally uncertain processes of innovation. EIARD, 2003 22
What projects liked in CPWF Phase 1 had much to do with working in partnership
Survey of PLs, principle scientists (n=79)
Greater diversity Multidisciplinarity Complementarity Wider geographic reach Adopting a basin-scale perspective Smaller organizations could increase their reach (through networks)
Sullivan and Alvarez, 2009
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Pathway 1. On-farm change in technologies Pathway 3 Policy enabling environment Pathway 2 Improved water supply to
farms
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Bangladesh Impact
2500 farmers increase returns by 50 to 100% Rice-shrimp farmers increase returns by 157% BWDB and LGED change polder management policy Farmer adoption of double cropping, storage of water in canals, new varieties (incl. from Vietnam, fish culture with shrimp)
Local BWDB and LGED staff allow polder infrastructure to be used to store water
Before
Mr. Nguyen Hoang Ben Ap Lung Chim, Xa Dinh Thanh, Dong Hai.
Insights and experiences = knowledge Knowledge is embodied in individuals or embedded in organizational processes and practices
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Planning
M&E
M&E
Comms, Uptake
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Technical projects
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3. Through co-developing theory of change 4. Through partnership 5. Through working on technical, institutional and process innovations at different scales 6. While ensuring integration of research and knowledge management
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Reasons to be cheerful
Experience to learn from Successful test flights Does what it says on the label
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