WaPOR 2- Compendium of solutions Petra Schmitter - IWMI 05 May 2023

1. WaPOR 2:
Compendium of solutions
International Water Management Institute

2. WaPOR Phase 2: demand driven applications
2 main international partners, 3 components,
5 years,10+ countries

3. • Co-design process and GESI strategy
• Country solutions
• Lessons learned
Content
Drought
Monitoring
Irrigation
performance
Water resources Irrigation
scheduling app
• Sudan • Mali
• Jordan
• Mozambique
• Ethiopia
• Iraq
• Kenya • Tunisia
• Algeria
• Palestine

4. Co-Design Process and Stakeholder
Engagement
• Co-design process is a collaborative approach to design a tool that
involves stakeholders in the design process from the outset
• Bringing together developers, users and other key stakeholders
• Sharing of powers and responsibilities
• Understanding user contexts, needs and preferences,
• Stakeholder engagement is the process of involving and
collaborating with stakeholders in decision-making processes that
affect them
• Enhances ownership, sustainability and supports scaling

5. Engaging Stakeholders: Defining Priorities for Effective Engagement.
Accumulative
Resource &
infrastructure
Capacity building
Impact assessment
(stakeholders) Validations of solutions
Stakeholders
mapping
activities
Users vision &
suitability with
WaPOR
Identify
the use
cases
Use case 2:
water producivity
Use case 1:Irrigation
performance assessement
Use case 3:
Resource mapping
Innovation characterization and scaling
SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS
IMPLEMENTATION
SUPPORT AND ASSESSMENT
Training
requirements
and strategy
Inclusiveness
Trust
development
Multi-
stakeholders
dialogues
Training
activities
Characterize
the use cases
Co-design stakeholder workshops
Stakeholder mapping
Human
centered
design
Co-design
workshops
User
interface
IMPLEMENTATION
Multi-
stakeholders
dialogues
Training
activities
Characterize
the use cases
Market based
Public based
Human
centered
design
Co-design
workshops
User
interface
Capacity building
Co-design stakeholder workshops
Stakeholder mapping
Set
of
tools
Sustainability
Use case 4:
Drought monitoring

6. Stakeholder mapping for tool development
Sudan
Drought monitoring tool Mozambique
Irrigation performance tool

7. The 5 GESI Goals
Identifying data needs to compliment WaPOR on
GESI implications with regards to water and land
use rights/use/access
GESI crop preferences
and ability to grow might
influence high or low
water productivity
Embed GESI relevant data into
WaPOR DSS to reduce
inequalities
Enhance GESI preferences and
needs into technology/solution
design depending on end-user
targeted
Embed local
knowledge into DSS
to ensure that
recommendations
are contextually
relevant

8. Compendium of solutions:
Drought
Monitoring
Irrigation
performance
Water resources Irrigation
scheduling app
• Sudan • Mali
• Jordan
• Mozambique
• Ethiopia
• Iraq
• Kenya • Tunisia
• Algeria
• Palestine

9. Sudan
• Challenge: Lack of drought monitoring system for
large rainfed areas in Al Qadarif
• Solution: Drought monitoring system integrating
WaPOR datasets
• User: Ministry of Agriculture; Sudan Meteorological
Authority (SMA)
• Information provided: Drought indicators focusing
on precipitation, vegetation conditions, soil
moisture status and biomass growth
• Stakeholder interactions: 7 from which 6 online
• Status: First version ready on CDI discussed with
stakeholders
• Next steps: Stakeholder co-design workshop
(posponed due to the current crisis)

10. Jordan • Challenge: Lack of information on the peformance of
North Jordan Valley irrigation system
• Solution: Irrigation performance assessment tool
integrating field based data with remote sensing based
datasets from WaPOR portal
• User: Jordan Valley Authority (JVA); Ministry of Water
and Irrigation; Ministry of Agriculture
• Information provided: seasonal trends in crop water use,
yield, water productivity and other hybrid indicators
• Stakeholder interactions: 2 formal meetings, and 2
informal introductory meetings
• Status: Design
• Next steps: Stakeholder co-development wokshop and
crop water requirement training planned in June
• Use case used for gender strategy
Field data WaPOR (100m) data
Canals
Farm boundary
WUA boundary
Water supply
Crop type/stage
Yield
Socio-economic
Crop water use
Biomass
Traditional
performance
indicators
Hybrid
indicators
RS performance
indicators
• Performance of the canal systems
• Efficiency – water supplied vs water consumed (ET)
• Equity – water consumption patterns between fields with same crop type
/stage
• Uniformity – water consumption patterns in a location across time
• Water use and consumption in head vs tail end
• Water use hotspots
• Water productivity of citrus
Efficiency and productivity at different scales

11. Mozambique • Challenge: lack of information about the
peformance of Lower Limpopo irrigation
systems
• Solution: Irrigation performance assessment
tool integrating field based data with remote
sensing based datasets from WaPOR portal
• User: INIR, HICEP, and MADER
• Information provided: seasonal trends in crop
water use, yield, water productivity and other
hybrid indicators
• Stakeholder interactions: Six online
consultations
• Status: Design
• Next steps: Stakeholder co-development
wokshop in May
Chowke Irrigation scheme

12. Tunisia
• Challenge: INGC Tunisia has developed IREY with
basic/not validated Crop Coef. Kc without forecast
• Solution: Use of WaPOR + high res. climate data
to calculate Kc using two different methods
• User: Pioneer Farmers/Early adopters Network
• Information provided: Accurate operational and 10-d
forecasted IWR at the plot level
• Stakeholder discussions: 3
• Status: design
• Next steps: calibrated Kc coeffiecients updated in the
app ready end 2023, forecast + validation in 2024

13. General observations/reflections on solution implementation
Adaptive management to stakeholder engagement
Original “requests” requires translation to on the ground needs and contextualization; requires adaptive
management to “tool selection’ – end user ; adaptation to on-the-job training and training schedules
Co-design process and stakeholder engagement is crucial in tool ownership but takes times
Different needs – visions – expectations; in presence in country matters; tool transfer – vs active
participation in co-design; enhances O&M; low capacity in some countries
Difference in original country implementation timelines – capacity limitation
Demand for all countries at the same time; faster traction in country presence; moving gears to in
country presence (Iraq, Palestine, Mozambique, Kenya)
Difference in stakeholder capacity – requires for additional resources for implementation
Resources needs for processing/programming, UX/UI, etc differs

14. Thank you