1. Photo: cc: Gates Foundation
Investing in equitable and sustainable
solutions for a post-2015 world
Alain Vidal (CGIAR Consortium) & Nicoline de Haan (CGIAR Research Program on Water,
Land and Ecosystems- WLE)
Stockholm World Water Week, September 4, 2014

2. The SDGs:
 Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
 Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition,
and promote sustainable agriculture
 Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
 Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water
and sanitation for all
 Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and
modern energy for all
 Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries

3. What do we know about poverty?
Photo: cc: Nana Koffi/IWMI

4. What do we know about poverty?
 Links with
• Food security and agriculture but not in a linear way
 What we have learned through the Challenge Program on Water
and Food (CPWF)
• Multi-dimensional aspect of poverty - power dynamics and
political systems that systematically undermine the ability of the
poor to maintain their entitlements, and their rights to access
(Leach & Mears)

5. Photo: cc: Pietrek Weggersi/IWMI
Food security and access

6. Food security vs. productivity
in Ghana and Burkina Faso
Source: World Bank, FAO

7. Improve commodity
markets/value chains
and develop better
policies
Farmers
and
technology
Markets
and
policies
Better
livelihoods
Water and energy
- common pool resource
- mediated by institutions or
by technology
- finite and deteriorating
- demand for energy in
agriculture is increasing
Improved production
through high yielding variety
and management
Access
What do we mean by the missing middle?

8. Access to the missing middle
 Access
• Why is access important?
• Why is it relevant?
 Areas to consider:
• Change needed in societal structures
• Ensuring productivity and equity
• Answering who is investing?
• From control to service (van Koppen)
• Finite and deteriorating - ecosystems

9. Photo: cc: Neil Palmer/CIAT
Entry points

10. Entry points for action on access
 Meaningful participation
• Participatory irrigation management and rolling up responsibility
• 30% women in WUA
• Needs from the users
• Thriving institutions
 Addressing structural constraints
• Land tenure
• Access to credit
• Capacity development

11. Entry points for action on access
 Build institutions that are able to deal with trade-offs
• Accept the presence of multiple uses of water and energy
• Think in terms of the nexus: water – food – energy
• Not win-win – quality of process becomes important
• Meaningful participation
• Local solutions - provisional

12. Indicators?
In development – ideas:
 Already working on:
• Access to resources
• Meaningful decision making
 Productivity or water use efficiency is not adequate
 Capacity to manage common pool resources at individual and
institutional levels
 Nexus connectivity indicator? e.g. the variation between the weights
decision-makers would put on water, food and energy in investment
and management decisions
 The role of information

13. THANK YOU
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