Project V5 Coordination and Change

Olufunke Cofie

VBDC Annual Science Reflection Workshop 3-5 July, 2012 Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Andes • Ganges • Limpopo • Mekong • Nile • Volta

“Given that four research projects have been designed to respond to the Volta Basin Development Challenge (VBDC) of integrated management of rainwater

and small reservoirs for multiple uses, the Coordination and Change Project V5, is formulated to orient, align and integrate the VBDC to contribute to poverty

reduction and improved livelihood resilience in the Volta Basin. To do this, the project team will apply seven strategies: ensuring and coordinating quality

research, fostering change through multi-stakeholder processes, communications, adaptive management, innovation research, gender mainstreaming and capacity development while working in collaboration with the other four projects (V1 – V4)

to achieve the VBDC”

Lead Institution: VBAPartners: GWP, IWMI and INERA

Project Summary

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Research Coordination

Innovation Research

Fostering Change through MSP

Capacity Developm

ent

Gender M

ainstreaming

Effective Comm

unications

M&

E/ Adaptive managem

ent

Strategic Interventions

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1. Research Coordination

How best can we orient and integrate research conducted by BDC Projects V1, V2, V3 and V4 to achieve expected outcome?

– is the VBDC research implementation relevant to the issue on the ground?

– are projects being implemented in perspectives (e.g considering gender aspect etc.) and delivering on agreed outputs and outcomes?

How?-Engage V1-V4, Ensure synergies and interactions between BDC projects,-Customized capacity development to enhance VBDC research ad uptake-Evaluation of 6-monthly reports-Gender audit

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V2 – Integrated Management of rainwater for Crop-Livestock

Agroecosystems

V1 – Targeting and Scaling Out

V4 – Sub-basin management and governance of RW and SR

V5 – Coordination & Change

• Guideline on rainwater management strategies (RMS) that improve s farmers livelihood targeted to different biophysical and socio-economic domains

• Innovation platforms on crop-livestock value chains

• Tools for integrated analysis of RMS

Identification of successful agricultural water management (AWM) interventions in specific locations and under specific conditions

• SR management options that improves the livelihood of reservoir water users

• SR management that improves the functioning and the resilience of reservoir

• Information on governance decisions that combine sustainability, planning concerns and livelihood priorities

V3 – Integrated Management of Small Reservoirs (SR)

for Multiple Use

•high quality integrated research results effectively com

municated to next and end users provides

enabling environment for RW

and SR managem

ent

BasinCom

munity

Watershed

VBDC Research

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Project Links• Review on AWM: completed• Joint publication: on-going• Policy and institutional analysis: ongoing• Volta Storylines and Scenarios (VSS) project: What are the common research

threads, that link the different VBDC projects: ongoing • What are the interventions that enhance ecosystem services and that could put

our target communities in the Volta Basin on a resilient path?: about to start• V2 &V4 : on PhD of Balma?• V4 & V3 on the PhD on health?• Application of V4 participatory tool to validate issues identified by V1, V2 and V3

issues?• Further PGIS on the sites of V2, V3 and V4?• Cross cutting topics: MSPs, modeling, ….

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2. Fostering Change through multi-stakeholder processes

• Stakeholder database• Mapping and analysis• Engagement plan with various levels of stakeholders Region, National

Local• Capturing the feedback of end users and other stakeholders• Document and analyse processes for learning

Focus on national regional level stakeholders: GWP/VBA platforms

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3. Communicating VBDC R4D

• Internal & External to VBDC. • Multiple actors and scale• Multiple channels and products focused on use not mere

production• Compliments project level communication activities

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4. M&E and Adaptive Management• Ensure learning oriented monitoring in the VBDC• Clear basin level M&E plan based on the V1-V5 impact

pathways and harmonised BDC level theory of change• Monitor the Impact Pathway to analyze it for intended

outcomes and provide regular feedback• Ensure that V1-V5 is leading to planned outputs and identify

triggers that can enhance achievement of VBDC Goal.• Regular reflection meetings.

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5. Innovation Research• Understanding policy processes in agricultural water

management sector – IWMI (JP)• Evaluation of the whole spectrum of research and change

processes within the BDC for learning and for up/out scaling (Karen)

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V5 Presentations

• Policy and institutional analysis• Communications• Innovation Research• M&E

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Thankswww.volta.waterandfood.org