CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food

CPWF aims to: increase productivity of water for food & livelihoods in a manner that is environmentally sustainable & socially acceptable

15 years in 3 x 5-year phases – Phase 1 2004-8; Phase 2 2009-13; Phase 3 ?

CGIAR Science Council Commentary on Phase 2 Plan - 20 April 2008

“10 years, consistent with “Lessons Learnt on CPs” (Sep 2007)”

“there may be value in extending this CP beyond 2 phases, but that should not beanticipated at this stage”

CPWF intends that there will be a Phase 3

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Projects

• 33 “1st call” projects in first round, 3-5 years, $1-2 million from CPWF, starting 2004

• 8 “2nd call” projects started early 2008

• 4 Basin projects started in 2005 – Volta, Mekong, Sao Francisco, Karkeh

• 6 Basin projects started early 2008 incl. Limpopo

• 12 Small Grant projects (12-18 mths)

The CPWF Water-Food System

Scales

Global

Basin

SystemCrop Water Productivity

Theme 1 (IRRI)

People & catchments

Theme 2 (CIAT)

Aquatic ecosystems

Theme 3 (ICLARM)

Integrated river basin managementTheme 4 (IWMI)

Global and national policies and institutionsTheme 5 (IFPRI)

SCALES 5 THEMES

LIZ Bas Bouman

Doug White

Nancy Johnson

Sophie Nguyen-KhoaMartin van BrakelWORLD FISH/IWMI

Flip WesterC.T. HoanhFrancis Gichuki

Mark Svendsen

Annette Huber-lee

CGIAR Future Harvest Centers

NARES

Advanced Research Institutes

International River Basin Organizations

International NGOs

ARC YRCCAREO

16 Consortium Partners – Steering Cte

Present (2006) estimates of donor contributions 2003 - 2008 USD millions

Present estimate

United Kingdom 17.0 World Bank 13.7 France 6.2 Netherlands 5.4 Switzerland 5.4 European Commission (pending final approval)5.4 Germany 2.7 Norway 2.6 Denmark 2.2 IFAD 0.9 Sweden 0.6 USDA 0.1

Total 62.2

Mostly from Europe, similar funding anticipated for Phase 2

CPWF aims to:CPWF aims to: increase productivity of water for increase productivity of water for foodfood & & livelihoodslivelihoods in a manner that is in a manner that is environmentally sustainable,environmentally sustainable, socially acceptable socially acceptable & alleviates & alleviates poverty for all disadvantaged poverty for all disadvantaged groupsgroups

Phase 2 2009 – 2013Qualifiers 1. Liz’s understanding as of 14 June 2009; 2. work in progress

CPWF Phase 2 – main changes• Governance – more independent of CGIAR

- small board – 9 – first meeting Sept 08

- 5 independents (selected by CSC);

- independent chair (George Rothschild)

- 1 CG alliance rep. (IFPRI – Mark Rosegrant)

- 1 IWMI rep (accountable for CPWF – Colin Chartres)

- 1 rep non-CGIAR CSC members

- CPWF program director

• Implementation

- program director (Alain Vidal replaces Jonathan Woolley)

- science director (Larry Harrington)

- impact director (Boru Douthwaite)

- assistant director (Sophie Nguyen-Khoa)

- program administrator (Pamela George)

CPWF Phase 2 – main changes• More focussed, targetted

- 6 Basins (Limpopo, Nile, Volta, Ganges, Mekong, Andean “system”)

- 6 Research topics (part time topic leaders?)

- 1-2 “development challenges” per Basin, specific parts of Basin, stakeholder consultation for selecting the challenges (related to the topics – “chicken & egg”)……

• Basin driven research agenda

- “Basin Project” – comprised of 3-5 “projects”

- Basin advisory committee

- Basin Impact leader

- Basin Challenge leader (may come from sub-projects?)

- commissioned & competitively selected projects

The CPWF Water-Food System

Scales

Global

Basin

SystemCrop Water Productivity

Theme 1 (IRRI)

People & catchments

Theme 2 (CIAT)

Aquatic ecosystems

Theme 3 (ICLARM)

Integrated river basin managementTheme 4 (IWMI)

Global and national policies and institutionsTheme 5 (IFPRI)

SCALES 5 THEMES

Liz Humphreys

Doug White Sophie Nguyen-Khoa

C.T. Hoanh

Annette Huber-lee

Transition – oversighting completion of Phase 1 projectsCPMT – Sophie Nguyen-Khoa; Phase 1 Project Supervisors – former TLs 10%

Focusing the strategy in phase 2

Focusing on the technical content found to be most promising in phase 1 – plus some new areas

Focusing even more on research that will begin development impact within the 15 year CPWF time frame

All research is interdisciplinary, includes cross-scale analysis and focuses on resilience

Phase 2: 2009-2013; intended Phase 3 to 2018

Focusing the strategy in Phase 2

CPWF as the platform for partners to contribute their specialist expertise

Seeking to strengthen research for development networks in water & food in each basin that will continue functioning after CPWF finishes in 2018 (part of the “exit” strategy)

With expected minimum budget of USD 60 million can handle 1 challenge per basin; aiming for $90 and 2 challenges

Priority development challenges in each basin

Ganges delta  1. Integrated agriculture & aquaculture (2. Integrated management of groundwater)

Mekong (especially the “3S” border area Laos-Cambodia-Vietnam)   Basin Impact Leader Kim Geheb

1. Multiple use of reservoirs(2. Sustainable management of upland agricultural water)

Nile (especially Ethiopian highlands)  1. A landscape approach to rainwater management(2. Multiple uses of agricultural wastewater in the Delta)

First challenges (at least 3) to be contracted in 2009

Priority development challenges in each basin

Volta (Burkina Faso/northern Ghana) Small reservoirs & rainwater management

Andes (7 small basins)   1. Benefit-sharing mechanisms to improve water productivity &

reduce water-related conflict(2. Strategies for Andean communities to adapt to global

change

Limpopo (Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa) Small reservoirs & rainwater management

First challenges (at least 3) to be contracted in 2009

Flexible cross-basin topic working groups (TWG)in support of basin research

Increasing rainwater productivity

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Water benefit sharing

Global drivers of change

Learning to innovate

Participation and gender

(There will be periodic additions, mergers and deletions)

TWG members from Basin project teams working on elements of the Topic

Phase 2 Topic Working groups

•Foster cross-basin learning and sharing•Synthesize experiences gained in different basins•Strengthen the science•Apply lessons learned to further improve research in basins•Provide capacity for cross-scale analysis within basins

Iterative learning process

Phase 2 Limpopo

• stakeholder workshop in 2nd half of 2009 to develop research plan

• CPWF team visit to initiate workshop preparations• workshop 1-2 months later

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