G5: Coordination and change-enabling project
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Item Final Report on Ganges Coordination and Change Enabling Project (G5)(Report, 2014-12) BRACThe Coordination and Change Enabling Project (G5) worked in providing an enabling environment that promote connectivity of project research across topics and scales, from household agriculture- aquaculture farming systems to community polder water management through broader land use planning. The project also served as an interface between the programme and a variety of existing and potential stakeholders and worked towards scaling out research results to multiple stakeholders with common interest in achieving the goals for the CPWF for the Ganges coastal zone. Another important feature of this project is to increase the farm household income and productivity through collaboration with CSISA-BD project principally focusing on improved cereal cropping systems including fish and use of improved varieties and crop management technologies as well.Item Ganges Coastal Zone Issue Brief 5: Improved Agriculture and Aquaculture Cropping Systems(Brief, 2014-10) CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and FoodItem Ganges Coastal Zone Issue Brief 3: Governance by Small Water Management Units(Brief, 2014-10) CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and FoodItem Ganges Coastal Zone Issue Brief 4: Community Approach to Water Management(Brief, 2014-10) CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and FoodItem Ganges Coastal Zone Issue Brief 2: Agricultural Production and Drainage(Brief, 2014-10) CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and FoodItem Ganges Coastal Zone Issue Brief 1: Water Smart Communities(Brief, 2014-10) CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and FoodItem Ganges Coastal Zone Issue Briefs(Brief, 2014-10) CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and FoodA series of five issue briefs based on CPWF research on agricultural and aquacultural production and food security in the Ganges coastal zone. The brief topics are: water smart communities; agricultural production and drainage; governance by small water management units; community approach to water management; and improved agriculture and aquaculture cropping systems.Item Summary of CPWF Research in the Ganges River Basin(Working Paper, 2014-10) CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and FoodThe CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) has worked in the Ganges River basin since 2003. From 2010 to 2014, its research for development activities focused on the southwest and south-central coastal zone of Bangladesh with some additional work in the coastal zone of West Bengal, India. In most polders the primary limiting factors are poor water management due to the lack of systematic operation of sluice gates; lack of separation of lands of varying elevations; and siltation of the irrigation and drainage canals within polders. Uncoordinated operation and delayed and/or inadequate maintenance of polder infrastructure remain common challenges throughout the coastal zone. Agricultural and aquacultural productivity and homestead food production have suffered as a result. Seizing the opportunity for change, CPWF set out to find ways to reduce poverty and improve social-ecological resilience in the coastal zone through improved water governance and management, and intensified and diversified agricultural and aquaculture systems.Item WLE Ganges Focal Region Meeting(Internal Document, 2014-06) Meisner, Craig; George, Pamela; Pukinskis, Ilse; Humphreys, Elizabeth; Buisson, Marie-Charlotte; Mondal, Manoranjan K.Following the two-day WLE Ganges Regional Research Workshop on the CPWF Delta Program, a smaller meeting was held with fourteen participants. This meeting focused on providing insights from CPWF’s work in the Ganges and developing recommendations for the design team that will develop the WLE Ganges proposal. Discussions were based on the recently drafted Ganges Focal Region Development Challenge concept note following a WLE meeting in Amman, Jordan. Participants included key members of the CPWF-Ganges research team and representatives of the WLE Ganges ‘hills’ and ‘plains’ regions. WLE program staff led the meeting.Item Messages from the Ganges Basin Development Challenge: Unlocking the Production Potential of the Polders of the Coastal Zone of Bangladesh through Water Management Investment and Reform(Working Paper, 2014-05) To Phuc Tuong; Humphreys, Elizabeth; Khan, Zahirul Haque; Nelson, Andrew; Mondal, Manoranjan K.; Buisson, Marie-Charlotte; George, PamelaThe coastal polders of Bangladesh are characterized by extremes in terms of both challenges and opportunities. The polders are home to about 8 million people, where 85% of rural householders live under the national poverty line. The polders are subjected to flooding during the rainy season; drought and salinity during the dry season, and cyclones. In addition, the impacts of climate change, especially sea level rise, will be most severe in this region. Much of the poverty of the region has been attributed to soil and water salinity and flooding, which constrain agricultural and aquacultural productivity and cropping system intensification. The CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) Ganges Basin Development Challenge (GBDC) research shows that this need not be the case! This document draws on the GBDC research findings and discussions over the last decade and presents seven key evidence- based messages. The aims of the messages are to correct misperceptions about water resources and the production potential of the coastal zone, and to advocate for changes in resource-use technologies, resource management policies, institutional coordination and governance mechanisms. The seven messages are summarized below; their details with explanatory notes and supporting evidence are included in the main text.Item Adaptive Management Guidelines: Ganges Basin Development Challenge(Internal Document, 2012-03) Hossain, Mohammed EmdadThe goal of the Ganges BDC is ‘to reduce poverty, improve food security and strengthen livelihood resilience in coastal areas through improvement management, and more productive and diversified farm systems.’ Five inter-related projects address the BDC objective. The role of the Ganges Coordination and Change-Enabling project is to ensure that Projects 1-4 are well integrated into a program of research that ultimately delivers change – development outcomes and impacts. It therefore contributes to all BDC project goals through various actions. The adaptive management guideline is prepared considering the three major sections: a) Monitoring and Evaluation activities; b) Information & Communication, and; c) Capacity development.Item Initial visioning and planning for policy change with partners and other BDC projects(Internal Document, 2012-03) Miah, M A HamidThe objectives are this vision document are to: 1) suggest guidelines and steps towards deiserble policy shifts; 2) compile an understanding of the issues and probable technical solutions that require appropriate policy shifts, based on the experiences of different development partners working in these areas; and 3) envision outcomes for the four components of the GBDC.Item CPWF BDC Annual Report Ganges river basin: April 2011 to December 2012(Annual Report, 2012-04-20) Ganges Basin Development ProgramItem Report on Ganges BDC Reflection Workshop(Report, 2012-04-01) Douthwaite, Boru; Bayot, Ruvicyn S.Phase II of the CGIAR Challenge Program for Water and Food (CPWF) is a multi-institutional and inter-disciplinary research for development initiative focused on increasing the resilience of social and ecological systems through better water management for food production.Phase II in the Ganges Basin began in 2011 and is scheduled to end in 2014. With the aim of improving the livelihoods of Ganges coastal zone farmers in Bangladesh and West Bengal India, the five projects comprising the Challenge are focusing on areas where there is already some level of water control, especially within the polders of Bangladesh but also extending to areas outside polders in India.The goal of the Challenge is to reduce poverty and improve livelihood resilience. The first most important function of the Reflection Workshop is that it allows Ganges BDC project teams to share their individual project activities, findings, issues, opportunities and visions.This enables the BDC team as a whole to discuss, collectively, any adjustments that need to be made to better address the goal of the BDC, and to identify early results that should be built on, particularly for out and upscaling.Item Ganges Proposal Development Workshop(Report, 2011-01) Bayot, Ruvicyn S.Item Ganges theory of change workshop report(Report, 2011-11-08) Bayot, Ruvicyn S.; Salahuddin, A.; Douthwaite, BoruIf research is to have an impact then people must use the outputs, knowledge and insights it generates. This means that researchers and their organizations must link to next users and end users of their research. What a project or program does and who it does with to achieve impact is called its Theory of Change (ToC). Programs with clear and plausible ToC are more likely to be supported, more likely to achieve impact, and easier to monitor. This workshop will introduce participants to Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis (PIPA) as a way of articulating ToC, and using it in program planning and monitoring.