Presented by Nadia Manning (IWMI) at the CGIAR-CSI Annual Meeting 2009: Mapping Our Future. March 31 - April 4, 2009, ILRI Campus, Nairobi, Kenya

1. Agricultural Water Management (AWM)
Landscape Analysis
Assessing the feasibility and potential
impacts of smallholder AWM interventions
in SSA and SA
Partners: IWMI, IFPRI, SEI, FAO, IDE, CH2M Hill

2. The opportunity
• 40-80 billion US$
• Smallholder agricultural water
management is a promising
investment option to improve
the livelihoods and food security
of the rural poor

3. The challenge
• Despite documented success stories adoption
rates remain low. Adoption at large scale in a
sustainable manner, and targeting poor
(particularly women) remains a challenge.
• Irrigation investments mixed success rate,
particularly in SSA
• Where to invest, how?

4. Project Goal
To stimulate and support successful pro-poor,
gender-equitable AWM investment, policy and
implementation strategies through concrete,
evidence-based knowledge and decision-
making tools.

5. Three Key Outputs
1. Criteria, methodology and tools for selecting
AWM interventions (technologies & approaches);
2. M&E Framework for evaluating economic, social
and environmental impacts of AWM
interventions;
3. National agricultural water management
investments guides that offer AWM intervention
guidance for donors, policy-makers and
implementers
Ethiopia, Ghana, Burkina, Zambia, Tanzania ;
2 states in India (MP, WB).

6. Project Impact Pathway
Vision of Success: Livelihoods of 65 million
Anticipated Impact
poor women and men farmers in SSA and
15-20 years SA are significantly improved
Target: Beneficiaries multiplied through broader
uptake and financing of project
Post Project Timeframe
5-10 years recommendations
Target: Livelihoods of 1 million smallholder
5 years farmers enhanced in project’s priority
locations
Outcome: Measurable changes in AWM
investment, policy and implementation
strategies by the project’s boundary partners
Direct Influence
Outcome: Clear guidance from the project
facilitates successful AWM policy,
investment, and implementation strategies in
the project’s priority locations
Output: Results synthesized, packaged and
communicated to policy makers, investors
Project and implementers
Completion Output: Cohesive set of AWM knowledge
products and decision-making tools

7. Activity Schematic
Outscaling and strategizing
Learning from existing
information
Learning from field experiences
/scenario development
Synthesizing, disseminating and reaching out

8. Activity 1: inventory
1.1 Inventory of technologies and approaches on
farm and community scale
1.2 Inventory of lesson learnt on watershed level
impacts
1.3 Synthesis of literature and existing information
Outputs
• Inventory database
• Documentation of lessons learnt
• Report cards per technology

9. •analyze the technological, biophysical, social and institutional landscape in which AWM technologies operate
•understand the opportunities, constraints and impacts of their use
Activity 2: Constraint and opportunity analysis
2.1 Development of methodology for Rapid
Participatory Opportunity and Constraint
Analysis
2.2 Identification of field sites
2.3 Opportunity & constraint analysis at farm
level: at least 20 sites
2.4 Opportunity & constraints analysis at
community level: at least 30 sites

10. ctivity 2: Opportunity and Constraint analysis
2.5 Impacts at watershed level, 3 comprehensive
watershed studies, nested approach
2.6 Adoption scenarios and environmental impacts at
watershed level
2.7 Synthesis
Outputs
• Opportunity & constraints assessment tools /
methodology at farm, community & watershed scale
• Application of methodology at >20 farm sites, >30
small reservoirs, >3 watershed sites
• Intervention briefs by technology & intervention
approach

11. Activity 3: Scaling up, evaluating potential
3.1 Data Harmonization
3.2 Mapping biophysical & socio-economic
opportunities & constraints
3.3 Mapping gender, Irrigation & crop control
3.4 Assessment of geographic suitability
domains
3.5 Assessment of AWM potential and their
impact

12. Activity 3: Scaling up, evaluating potential
3.6 AWM Impact – cost model
Outputs
• Data accessible through searchable web-portal
• GIS based suitability domains
• Maps & tables of potential impacts under
different adoption scenarios
• AWM investment cost-benefit analysis tool

13. Activity 4: AWM Strategic support
4.1 Distillation of the key messages
4.2 Project workshops (inception, midterm &
synthesis)
4.3 Web-based data dissemination
4.4 Country policy dialogues
4.5 Dissemination to NGO’s and other
implementing agencies

14. Activity 4: AWM Strategic support
4.6 Project Monitoring and Evaluation: internal
and external M&E
Outputs
• Criteria for high potential areas, guidelines for
AWM interventions, tools to estimate costs
and benefits
• Intervention briefs, journal articles,
dissemination materials, website, blog

15. Three Key Outputs
1. Criteria, methodology and tools for selecting
AWM interventions (technologies & approaches);
2. M&E Framework for evaluating economic, social
and environmental impacts of AWM
interventions;
3. National agricultural water management
investments guides that offer AWM intervention
guidance for donors, policy-makers and
implementers