CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems
An Overview for Science Focal MeetingAmman, December 2013
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
The challenges facing our global food production systems
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
CGIAR System Level Outcomes
1. Reduce rural poverty
2. Increase food security
3. Improve nutrition and human health
4. Sustainable management of natural resources
WLE IDO: IncomeIncreased and more equitable income from agricultural
and natural resources management and ecosystem services in rural and peri-urban areas
WLE IDO: ProductivityImproved land, water and energy productivity in rainfed
and irrigated agro-ecosystem
WLE IDO: Risk ManagementIncreased ability of low income communities to adapt to
environmental and economic variability, demographic shifts, shocks and long term changes
WLE IDO: GenderWomen and marginalized groups have decision making
power over and increased benefits derived from agriculture and natural resources.
WLE IDO: EquityIncreased resilience of communities through enhanced
ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes.
Goal: Sustainable intensification of agricultural development
WLE Portfolio 2013/2014Activities Mapped into
SRPs and Activity ClustersWLE Innovation
FundFocal Region
Activities
• 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
Where WLE is moving towardSRP Led
Global Pathways
Examples• Resource Recovery
& Reuse• Land Degradation• Water, Food &
Energy Nexus• Small Scale
Irrigation in SSA• Salinity
Focal Regions
West Africa
East Africa
SE Asia
South Asia
Latin America
Southern Africa
Central Asia
Middle East
Cross-Cutting Initiatives
• Environmental flows• Mapping ESS and
resilience into Focal Regions
• Gender across program
• Information decision-making
WLE research outputs
WLE research outcomes
WLE Intermediate Development Outcomes
WLE Uptake Framework: CGIAR/ISPC Impact Pathways/Theories of Change
System Level Outcomes
WLE research outputs
WLE research outcomes
WLE Intermediate Development Outcomes
Opportunity identification
Client analysis
Decision analysis
Partner engagement
Levers and incentives
WLE uptake strategy: significant focus on the research client
System Level Outcomes
Risk analysis: major decisions affecting agro-ecosystems that support large
numbers of people
Opportunity analysis: research needed to provide alternatives that improve ecosystem
services for human development
Client analysis: decision makers demand research
Niche analysis: limited research available
WLE opportunity
space
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
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
WLE research outputs
WLE research outcomes
WLE Intermediate Development Outcomes
Opportunity identification
Client analysis
Decision analysis
Partner engagement
Levers and incentives
Supporting research client decision making through decision analysis
System Level Outcomes
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
WLE research outputs
WLE research outcomes
WLE Intermediate Development Outcomes
Opportunity identification
Client analysis
Decision analysis
Partner engagement
Levers and incentives
Focused partner engagement, levers and incentives
System Level Outcomes
Farmers receive training and capital to : - Rehabilitate
wetlands- Forest conservation- Improve farming
practices
CPWF/Andes: uptake incentives through benefit sharing
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Canete River Basin, PeruUpper basin: subsistence agriculture, extensive degradingMiddle basin: hydropower companyLower basin: urban and tourism
How we are organized
WLE Operations Team Resource Persons
Lead Center Board
Lead Center DG
WLE Steering Committee
Program Director
SRP Leaders
ESS/R Lead
GPI Lead
Management Committee
GPI Program Management
Comms/KMME&L
West Africa
East Africa
Mekong GMS
South Asia
Focal Regions
Latin America
Southern Africa
Central Asia
Middle East
Science Focal Points
Research Coord.
Partnership for Outcomes
LANDSCAPE
NATIONALREGIONAL
GLOBAL
DELIVER RESEARCH OUTCOMES – impact multiplies through partners
Potential beneficiaries 10s of thousands
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6 ye
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3 –
6 ye
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6 –
9 ye
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• Global initiatives informed and inspired by research, support national and landscape investments
• New investments made by IFAD, GIZ, GEF• Public and private• Policy, Regulation, Incentives support adoption
Strategies adopted that are site specific, gender & equity sensitive
FAO, GSP, UNCCD, ELD, GEF, UNEP, UNDP
National Agriculture and NRM policy CAADP, IFAD, GIZ, SDC
Communities, civil society, NGO’s, national extension, ARI’s, IFAD, SDC
100’s of thousands
Millions
Capacity Building• Embedded into Impact
Pathways• Beyond PhDs and
training• Mentoring and Young
Professionals • Putting national
partners in the lead
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
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