Water Land and Ecosystems CGIAR Research Program:

Uptake StrategyElizabeth Weight, IWMI Global Uptake Coordinator

Contents

• Overview of WLE at a Glance • Overview of WLE Impact Pathways and

Impact Pathway thinking • Fitting in Comms/KM into impact pathways• Assignment

CGIAR System Level Outcomes

1. Reduce rural poverty2. Increase food

security3. Improve nutrition

and human health4. Sustainable

management of natural resources

WLE IDO: IncomeIncreased and more equitable income from agricultural and

natural resources management and ecosystem services in rural

and peri-urban areas

WLE IDO: ProductivityImproved land, water and energy

productivity in rainfed and irrigated agro-ecosystems

WLE IDO: GenderWomen and marginalized

groups have decision making power over and increased

benefits derived from agriculture and natural

resources.

WLE IDO: Risk Management

Increased ability of low income communities to adapt to

environmental and economic variability, demographic shifts, shocks and long term changes

WLE IDO: EquityIncreased resilience of

communities through enhanced ecosystem services in

agricultural landscapes.

WLE Goal: Sustainable intensification of agricultural development

WLE Uptake Framework: CGIAR SLOs and WLE IDOs

WLE Future Impact Pathways

Flagship Thematic Impact Pathways

RRRSalinity Landscape degradationInformation Decision-making

Focal Region Development Challenges with integrated work from different SRPs

MekongIndus/GangesNile-East Africa West Africa

WLE Current Reality

• More than 160 projects, mapped into SRPs and aligned to activity clusters

• No coordinated work in the Basins

WLE research outputs

WLE research outcomes

WLE Intermediate Development Outcomes

WLE Uptake Framework: CGIAR/ISPC Impact Pathways/Theories of Change

System Level Outcomes

WLE research outputs

WLE research outcomes

WLE Intermediate Development Outcomes

Opportunity identification

Client analysis

Decision analysis

Partner engagement

Levers and incentives

WLE uptake strategy: significant focus on the research client

System Level Outcomes

Example of client focus: WLE resource recovery and reuse

Issue: Urban areas are growing and consuming more resources. How do we recover nutrients and water at scale? Technical knowledge is available, but few projects go to scale. WLE seeks to change this by analyzing business models and returns on investment.

Clear client focus: the private sector, public private partnerships, and business schools

The research portfolio is designed for the client: analyze successes and test promising business models for replication at scale

Multi-disciplinary research team includes economists, business developers, and environmental scientists

Faecal sludge Nutrients for agricultural production

WLE research outputs

WLE research outcomes

WLE Intermediate Development Outcomes

Opportunity identification

Client analysis

Decision analysis

Partner engagement

Levers and incentives

Supporting research client decision making through decision analysis

System Level Outcomes

Example: the decision analysis process Northeast Kenya: Tap the Merti aquifer to pump water > 100 km to town of Waiir?

Identify risks and uncertainties in decision of interest

Engage decision makers

Make probabilistic cost/benefit impacts on different stakeholder

groups of likely outcomes of decision

Compute value of additional information (uncertain variables with high information value = priorities for

measurement)Probabilistic outcomes (benefits/negative impacts) for different stakeholder groupsApplied Information Economics D. Hubbard,

“How to Measure Anything”, 2010

WLE research outputs

WLE research outcomes

WLE Intermediate Development Outcomes

Opportunity identification

Client analysis

Decision analysis

Partner engagement

Levers and incentives

Focused partner engagement, levers and incentives

System Level Outcomes

CPWF Mekong use of communication and knowledge management to improve dialogue

Changing how decisions are use of dams in the Mekong are made

1. Mekong Forum to dialogue around research

2. Short targeted State of Knowledge studies– in all Mekong Languages

3. Use of Film and video 4. Study tours and exchanges5. Face-to-face individual discussions

with Chinese Dam operators, investors, policy makers

Convening Power and Trust

Changes in how some dam operators carry out relocation and livelihood schemes, manage flows

Can discuss issues without fear of getting “shut down”

Designing Impact Pathways

Design Impact pathway

Develop Outcome Logic

Model

Develop Implementation

PlanImplement

Reflect

BudgetResourcesCapacity Comms/KM

Change agents, assumptions, strategies,

Client AnalysisNetwork MappingAssessing entry points

ResearchEngagement

Revise assumptionsIdentify new oppsIdentify changes

Types of KM Activities

Support Learning Culture

Open access of materials

Communication about the

project

Sharing and discussing progress

Repackaging, co-creation

Comms for policy

influence

Comms for development

Adapted from Simone Staiger

Integrating Communication & KM

Activities

Outputs

OutcomesImpacts

Internal ExternalImplementers Partners Users

ResearchKM on processesComms on what the project doesEngagement

Products into useRepositoriesRepackagingCommunicate about results

Comms/KM ProcessesEngagementMeetingsAdvocacy

Different approaches for different groups.

One-way communication - the complexity of the issue is low, the message; high certainty

Two-way communication - the issue is complex, the message difficult, no immediate guarantee

Participatory approaches - issue is highly complex, the messages not clear yet and there is yet no certainty that the action will lead to the desired outcome

Do we communicate to the right audience capable of taking the action we desire?

• Context matters – what are barriers?

• Who are the messengers (Not just products)

• How will products support impact pathways.

Assignment• WE will take 4 draft impact pathways and

transform them into Outcome Logic Models and then develop a KM/Comms plan for them– Global– Regional – Volta – Thematic – Landscape Degradation– Thematic – Information Decision-making

• 1hr developing outcome logic model• 1hr developing draft plan for KM/Comms plan