Overview on projects coordinated by the West Africa Office
IWMI has commenced quite significant activities since its establishment in the sub-region. In addition to its linkage to Africa wide and Global activities, there are considerable sub-regional and country specific projects ongoing, completed or in the pipeline.
- Regional activities
- Country specific activities:
Ethiopia
Kenya
Tansania
| Short Project Title and Description |
Status |
Regional Activities |
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Improving Irrigation Performance Africa
a project designed to improve the capacities of farmers and field level staff in enhancing performance of small and medium scale irrigation schemes (“APPIA” French-supported) in Kenya and Ethiopia |
Ongoing |
CGIAR-NBI Synergies
This project deals with stakeholders’ consultation process to identify gaps in knowledge and opportunities for research and capacity building that would directly support the NBI programs.
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Ongoing |
CP 36:Improved Livelihoods with Dam Management
The wise and sustainable use of dams requires consideration of a large number of complex and inter-related issues and poses intricate technical and political problems. This project is investigating the use of modern decision support systems (dss) for the planning and management of dam operation. The study is investigating which dss are most appropriate for the complexity of large dam operation and how these dss are best used to ensure successful stakeholder participation, and assess the costs and benefits of different operating options. |
Ongoing |
CP 37: Increasing water-use efficiency for food production through better livestock management – The Nile River Basin
The research project is to develop concepts and tools to account for livestock use, depletion and degradation of water in river basins, to assess livestock-water productivity and to use this knowledge to improve overall allocation and use of water and land resources for all users and at scales ranging from the household and community to the basin level. |
Ongoing |
Assessing Health Impacts of Small Reservior in Burkina Faso
Collection of primary data to understand health impacts of small reservoirs in Kaya and Koubri (Burkina Faso) |
Ongoing |
Health Impact Assessment of Small Dams in Morocco
Participatory health impact assessment of a small dam in Morocco: methodology development and community mobilization |
Ongoing |
System wide Livestock Program
Membership of Livestock Program Group, the steering committee of SLP. |
Ongoing |
SSA-CP Lake Kivu Pilot Learnning Site (PLS): A consortium is established to develop a research proposal on Lake Kivue PLS. This is a joint project of NARIs, SWMNet, and CG Centers |
In Pipeline |
Green Blue Water Initiative: A research and development program using a new framework in integrated land and water resource management. |
In Pipeline |
Country Projects
Ethiopia Specific Activities
Irrigation Impact on Poverty and Environment
A multi-year research and capacity building project applying new methodologies for assessing the impacts of irrigation on poverty and environment and finding ways to enhance the positive impacts. |
Ongoing |
CP 28: Multiple uses of water
Systems that allow efficient and effective supply of water to various stakeholders and that interact with various providers of water related services ('multiple use systems') are probably highly desirable from the perspective of using scare water most efficiently and also from the perspectives of gender equity and improving livelihoods. The MUS-project carries out scientific action research to validate this statement about a water-innovation. The project works through so-called learning alliances in 5 river basins around the world to develop locally-specific innovations and build capacity for scaling up. |
Ongoing |
Agricultural Water Management Technologies
This project is intended to bring together stakeholders working in small scale irrigation, water harvesting and micro irrigation fields. Through establishing a national level steering committee and organizing symposia, exhibition and workshop it would try to understand existing positive and negative lessons in the agricultural water management in Ethiopia. Through stakeholders’ consultations, it explores key areas of study and research that would create impact in AWM. |
Ongoing |
Improving Productivity and Market System for Small Holder Farmers in Ethiopia-IPMS
IWMI is contributing to the ILRI led and CIDA funded project in relation to small scale irrigation, water harvesting and development of training module under a project known as IPMS |
Ongoing |
Application of the POADIUM decision tool for assessing water and food tradeoffs in Ethiopia and at river basin level (part of a multi-country project with IPTRID-Dutch support). |
Ongoing |
A new project on Small Scale Irrigation and Micro Irrigation and their linkage to Private Sector, which is sponsored by USAID is about to be launched by organizing a symposium and exhibition. |
Ongoing |
Capacity Building: In addition to collaborative works with the various organizations and Institutions, IWMI has been supporting 5 Ph.D. students. Over 20 Ethiopian and Students from the North completed their M.Sc. studies through IWMI’s financial support and or supervision and guidance. Currently 3 additional M.Sc. students are working under IWMI support. Over 70 irrigation professionals trained on diagnosis and M &E of SSI in Kenya and Ethiopia. |
Ongoing |
Achieving Food Security, Gender Equity, and Agricultural Growth in Ethiopia through Innovative Water and Land Management Interventions. Proposal has been developed and submitted to CIDA but not yet sponsored |
In pipeline |
| SRP: Small Dams and Malaria Phase II: testing of interventions for malaria control around small dams in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, and Capacity building for data management and data analysis for malaria and small dams in Tigray, submitted. |
In Pipeline |
Ethiopian Special Country Support Program (ESCP): IFAD-MOWR-IWMI-CIAT on participatory and comprehensive evaluation of phase II activities. IFAD requested IWMI to develop TOR, but not yet provided the resource |
In Pipeline |
Pilot implementation of irrigation system guidelines and evaluation in an integrated community context (Joint proposal of IWMI, Austrian Institution and NGO has been developed and submitted to Austrian government funding) |
In Pipeline |
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Assessment of Experience and Opportunities of Small Scale Irrigation, Micro Irrigation and Water Harvesting in Ethiopia: a CIDA supported project completed with providing proposal for innovative up-scaling. See working paper 98. http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/pubs/working/WOR98.pdf |
Completed |
Ground Water Hydro-Ecology of Ethiopia. Desk study conducted end of 2004 and beginning of 2005. Supported through Comprehensive Assessment (CA) |
Completed |
Wastewater Addis: A Rapid assessment of the extent and significance of wastewater irrigation around Addis Ababa City has been conducted and completed in January 2005 as one of 30 Cities studied under the Comprehensive Assessment (CA) |
Completed |
Small Dams and Malaria: Entomological studies to determine the malaria transmission potential around 6 earth dams in Northern Tigray (Dutch-supported through SIMA, complemented with IWMI core funds, terminated end 2005. Links to other projects on health impacts of small dams in Burkina Faso and Morocco). |
Completed |
Kenya Specific Activities
IWMI initially started activities in Kenya opening an office in Nairobi. It has dealt with certain project activities such as rain water harvesting, bright spot projects and etc and looking forward to strengthen it activities for future. Some of the current activities include:
SIMA - Integrating malaria control interventions with development strategies in Mwea |
Ongoing |
Sustainable Increases In Agricultural Water Productivity. Research on Strategies to Reduce Poverty by Improving Agricultural Water Use and Management in the Ewaso Ng’iro North River Basin, Kenya. A proposal has been submitted to the World Bank and awaits funding. |
In Pipeline |
Tanzania Specific Activities
There have been quite a few projects undertaken in Tanzania whose details are not included here. More information can be attained through the Southern Africa IWMI office. To mention some of the current activities
IWMI- Sokoine University: IWMI through its Southern Africa office has been working with Sokoine University for quite some time. IWMI signed an MOU with Sokoine University of Agriculture in 2003.
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Ongoing |
IWMI has signed MoU with Tanzanian Ministry of Agriculture in 2004 to widen the scope of activities in Tanzania. |
Ongoing |
A major initiative, in Tanzania, is the RIPARWIN project. Working with local and international partners the project is investigating approaches to improving irrigation water management upstream of the Usangu wetlands, in western Tanzania. The aim is to develop strategies to “free” sufficient water to maintain dry season flows in the Ruaha River downstream of the wetlands. |
Ongoing |
RIPARWIN
The RIPARWIN (Raising Irrigation Productivity and Releasing Water for Intersectoral Needs) project studies competition for water in the upper part of the Great Ruaha River. It is testing the theory that improving irrigation efficiency and productivity in upstream areas will “free up” water for downstream needs. |
Completed |
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