Alain VIDAL, Basin Leader MeetingLaos, 19. Jan. 2011

The Challenge Program on Water and Food Big Picture

Assumptions, givens, strategic choices

Global food crisis: a poverty “countdown”

3 billion poor below US$2.5/day2 billion suffer from malnutrition1 billion suffer from hunger 75% of them are rural poor Alleviating hunger means reducing rural poverty

Reducing rural poverty Increase the income of the rural poor to enable

investment Ensure they can cope with short-term and long-

term changes

The resilience challengeFood production communities and ecosystems should be able to cope with local and global changes (climate, economy, demography, migrations…), ie become more resilient Achieved through improved water

productivity (more food with less water) together with empowerment, equity, market access, health and ecosystemservices

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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 Phase 2(2009-2014)

Basins, science, core principles and values

Focusing our strategy – a quizz

Why, where and on what do we focus?How long are we supposed to live?What does one basin development program cost? How many partners does it include?

Six basin development challengesAndes – Benefit-sharing mechanismsGanges – Floods and salt in the DeltaLimpopo – Small reservoirs, rainwater and livelihoodsMekong – Dams and livelihoodsNile – Rainwater management in EthiopiaVolta – Small reservoirs, rainwater and livelihoods

Cross-basin science

Topic working groups Multiple-uses Resilience Learning to innovate Global drivers Others

Fed by and informing research done in basins Progressively established in 2010-11

How we work

Guided by core principles: working in partnership adaptive management capacity development gender and interdisciplinary integration accountability

Linking research to impact through compelling basin development challenges and ‘outcome pathways’ Seeking insight across projects and basins

In other words…Projects contribute to achieving the BDC - hence should adhere to core principlesBasin focus but mechanisms in place to ensure cross basin learning - TWGsOur whole Program Team in place to make integrated process workAbility to scale up, replicate, influence and contribute to policy change

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Where do we stand?

Assets and opportunities

Engaging decision-makers and marketing Phase 1 outcomes

CPWF Learning Events atWorld Bank and IFPRI

Basin stakeholder visits in the Andes and the Nile

Stockholm World Water Week

Marketing outcomes from Phase 1The major effort to utilize Phase 1 outcomes is through Phase 2Continuous flow of Phase 1 legacy outputsBFP special issues, book and high-level science paperScience synthesis and evidence-based papersStrategic engagement with the media (films, print)Sourcebook for development professionals

Joint IFAD-CPWF initiative on Research into Use (5 Phase 1 projects) Mainstreaming innovation (19 Phase 1 projects)

Operationalizing Phase 2 - BDCs

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90% operational

EoIs approvedProposal development

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Operationalizing Phase 2 - Program

Basins to engage with decision-makers and donors

World Bank and other major global players to be invited to basin key events Link with program-level

Fund raising at basin level Basin- or activity-specific Not for a 2nd BDC Any fund raised by CPWF is supposed to benefit CRP5 Needs to be reflected upon from 2012 with the perspective of

a basin exit strategy

CPWF website and communication

MT responsibilities and communications rules

MT basin lead persons Boru: Ganges, Limpopo and Nile Larry: Andes, Mekong Sophie (AD): Volta – plus TWG

Full responsibilities of budget envelopes Boru – Innovation and Impact (incl. KM & publications) Larry – Science Sophie (AD) - Topic Working Groups

Program internal communications MT skype e-meeting every other Thursday E-mail: 1 idea – 1 title – 1 screen

Integration into CRP5

Changing a threat into an opportunity

« Full integration v1 » into CRP5 on Land, Water and Ecosystems

R4D portfolio, program/basin teams maintained until early 2014Contribution to CRP5 design, objectives and « best bets »

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A science integration learning from CPWF

A new Advisory Committee taking over CSC functions, guiding our science and being the core of the future CRP5’s ACCPWF role to better articulated in CRP5 Start from present writing and build the justification for effective integration as a way of strengthening CRP5 - in practice test our BDC approach on 1-2 regional hubs

A governance integration serving the program’s continuity

CPWF, its teams and its brand will continue to exist until 2014CPWF’s interests protected by ACOnce CRP5 is approved and launched IWMI and CPWF board amalgamated JVA dissolved CPWF Director member of CRP5 Steering Committee,

Management Committee and IWMI MT

An important reminder

As a partnership program aiming at alleviating poverty, we should constantly look for Increasing our efficiency – be firm on decisions

and avoid ineffective debates on processes and detail issues

Building alliances rather than walls

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