Water Governance and Political Economy (WGPE)

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    Does social transformation drive out-migration? Perceptions and changes
    (Journal Article, 2025-04) Setrana, M. B.; Teye, J. K.; Nikoi, E. G. A.; Asiedu, E.; Osei-Amponsah, Charity; Yakass, E.
    Migration and social transformation are major drivers of socio-economic development. Yet, the linkages between social transformation and migration in Ghana are poorly understood. This article seeks to shed light on how social transformation affects or is affected by migration, using mixed methods with transformationalist and social change theoretical lenses. At the same time, there have been retrogressive transformations in the economic conditions, technology and demography have improved and increased, respectively, and political and cultural factors have remained relatively the same over the past decade. Although there is a perceived bi-directional relationship between social transformation and migration, social transformation exerts greater influence on migration than migration has on social transformation except for higher educational attainment and improved household income. Therefore, the relationship between social transformation and migration is not balanced in our study area as the former influences more than the latter.
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    Creating an enabling environment for agricultural innovation in emerging markets
    (Report, 2025-04-10) Ires, Idil
    Market is the structure for the development and delivery of innovations that are able to address environmental, societal, and economic challenges. The lack of enabling conditions for market development has resulted in low investment levels and economic stagnation, impacting livelihoods in Africa. Although there have been efforts to implement market-driven reforms, challenges such as inadequate policies, weak legal frameworks, transparency issues and bureaucratic inefficiencies pose significant risks for public and private investments and for their potential to reach the target beneficiaries. This situation also discourages development partners and businesses from investing in the region.Technical assistance is crucial to improve the investment climate. This paper presents a framework to help governments create a more conducive environment for agricultural market development and the private sector to navigate through the existing challenges. Traditional technical assistance practices have faced criticism for adopting a one-size-fits-all approach that overlooks local contexts. Recently, however, there has been a shift towards more context-based and adaptive assistance, which informs this framework. This framework emphasizes key elements that contribute to an enabling environment, including institutions, such as policies, regulations, and legal frameworks, as well as clear market and regulatory information that help reduce transaction costs. The framework is theoretically based on new institutional economics and political economy approaches. It focuses on assistance in three areas with three categories of delivery partners: policy support to governments, institutional capacity strengthening (especially of National Agricultural Research and Extension Systems) and (agri)business acceleration support to small- and medium-scale enterprises. Through such assistance, this framework seeks to help create an enabling environment for the delivery of innovations that offer solutions to emerging climate, societal and economic crises. These solutions, especially those developed and scaled by the private sector, are targeted toward recipients such as farmers (including women and the youth), marginalized groups, displaced communities, refugees and migrants. The framework utilizes value chain and market development as the primary delivery structures. This framework has guided several recent enabling environment assistance practices under CGIAR’s International Water Management Institute (IWMI). This paper explores these practices and positions CGIAR as a strong technical assistance partner. While this framework offers a systematic approach to analyzing the enabling environment, the technical assistance driven by this framework promotes collaboration and co-creation. It actively engages governments, national research and extension offices, farmers and other stakeholders in influencing policies and business transaction advisories that directly benefit them. Furthermore, it aims to strengthen their capacities to diagnose and overcome enabling environment challenges as they arise. By helping to create an enabling environment for the private sector—especially small- and medium-scale enterprises that innovate and scale—and derisking the investment climate, this framework seeks to strengthen agrifood market systems to foster food security and alleviate poverty.
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    Gendered transformations: rethinking climate resilience building in northwest Ghana
    (Journal Article, 2025-03) Osei-Amponsah, Charity; Okem, Andrew; Wahabu, E.; Quarmine, William; Hyde, Sandra N. T.
    The transformation of gender roles and responsibilities have implications for how men and women and other social groups are impacted by and cope differently with the changing climate. However, such dynamics are often not considered in formulating and implementing climate resilience interventions. Through a case study in rural communities of the northwestern part of Ghana, Africa, using a mixed-methods approach, this paper investigates the gendered nature of transformations and the implications for climate resilience building. The study found that compared to ten years ago, women have increase access to farmland, participate more in agricultural development decision-making, better access to credit, and more diverse livelihood pathways. Nevertheless, women’s ability to adapt to climate change impacts like droughts is worsening because of cultural norms that restrict women’s control over land resources and their limited adaptive capacities. To achieve positive gendered transformation outcomes while minimising negative social transformation trade-offs, policy makers must rethink the strategies for building climate resilience. There is the need to focus on strategies that support the formulation and implementation of well-funded and targeted interventions with a perspective on gender realities and dynamics that provide women with real resources and agency, enabling institutional support and transformative opportunities.
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    Empowering change: trained development practitioners’ attitudes toward integrating social transformation analysis in planning
    (Brief, 2025-03-12) Quarmine, William; Nornoo, J. K. A.; Osei-Amponsah, Charity; Okem, Andrew
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    State level stakeholder consultation on participatory groundwater governance in Madhya Pradesh, India: learnings from Atal Bhujal Yojana and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)
    (Conference Proceedings, 2024-12-30) Patidar, P.; Bhattacharyya, S.; Taneja, Garima; Bhattacharjee, Suchiradipta; Mitra, Archisman; Bhaduri, Tanmoy
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    State level stakeholder consultation on participatory groundwater governance in Rajasthan, India: learnings from Atal Bhujal Yojana and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)
    (Conference Proceedings, 2024-12-30) Banerjee, H.; Papnoi, P.; Kaur, J.; Taneja, Garima; Bhattacharjee, Suchiradipta; Mitra, Archisman
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    Diet diversity among women in Attapeu Province, Lao PDR
    (Report, 2024-12-30) Rizaldo, Q. V.; Inphonephong, Souphalack; Phounvisouk, L.; Dubois, Mark
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    Ukama Ustawi ShareFair event
    (Report, 2024-12-30) Ageyo, C.; Hanke-Louw, Nora
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    Enhancing knowledge management and learning for agricultural resilience in East and Southern Africa
    (Brief, 2024-11-30) Kumwenda, Hannock; Nohayi, Ngowenani; Kasoma-Pele, Winnie; Kakuwa, B.; Odeke, M.
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    The PILA framework & policy flux: understanding change in complex institutional environments
    (Brief, 2024-11-30) Nicol, Alan; Schutter, M.; Bhattacharjee, Suchiradipta; Eldabbagh, Fayrouz; Sanchez Ramirez, Juan Carlos
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    Building coherence into food, land and water systems: tackling institutional complexity and policy choices in Egypt
    (Brief, 2024-12-30) Eldabbagh, Fayrouz; Nicol, Alan; Sanchez Ramirez, Juan Carlos; Brouziyne, Youssef
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    Advocating for effective policy coherence: reflections for CGIAR and beyond
    (Brief, 2024-12-30) Ramirez, Juan Carlos Sanchez; Nicol, Alan; Eldabbagh, Fayrouz
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    Sustainable Development Goal 6: ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
    (Book Chapter, 2024-04-19) van Koppen, Barbara
    Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6) seeks to ‘ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all’, and addresses the pathways to health, hygiene and ending hunger. This chapter highlights how reliable, weather-proof access to water is key for drinking, domestic uses, hygiene, and food preparation and processing from household to industrial scales. Further, agricultural water management and irrigation improve crop yields and can extend cropping into the ‘hunger’ season, also overcoming unexpected droughts. Moreover, water security stimulates investments in higher-value seeds and other inputs. Livestock, fisheries and aquaculture also depend on water availability. These pathways contribute to higher dietary diversity of micro-nutrient and protein-rich vegetables, meat, eggs, and other food for own consumption or sale. Water availability for multiple uses at homesteads is particularly effective for ending child malnutrition. However, food systems also risk polluting water. Therefore, SDG6 also envisages water quality control and resource recovery.
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    Development and application of standardized tools to support assessment of the socio-economic impact of water reallocation through compulsory licensing
    (Report, 2024-09-01) Zane, Giulia; van Koppen, Barbara; Sithole, P.; Mapedza, Everisto; Buisson, Marie-Charlotte; Murombo, T.; Schreiner, B.; Jacobs-Mata, Inga
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    Working together for more equitable water sharing solutions
    (Video, 2024-12-12) International Water Management Institute; WorldFish
    A new video from the CGIAR Initiatives on Asian Mega-Deltas and Aquatic Foods documents work to support Cambodia to delegate the management of water, land, agriculture, fisheries, and the environment to the district level. WorldFish and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - working closely with Cambodia’s Inland Fisheries Research and Development Institute (IFReDI) – piloted the establishment of a District Technical Working Group to facilitate the integrated management of water resources of Beung Sneh Lake, Prey Veng Province, in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap floodplain and Mekong delta. The work is a departure from the strongly sectoral approach to natural resources management in the country and represents a fundamental policy shift that can enable natural resources planning to better reflect the shared nature of water and land resources across multiple food production systems.
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    A toolkit for social transformation analysis (STA) in development planning
    (Brief, 2025-01-21) Osei-Amponsah, Charity; Quarmine, William; Essipke, C. W.
    The toolkit aims to integrate social transformation analysis (STA) into development planning processes. It would enable policymakers, development practitioners, and other stakeholders to better understand and act on context-specific dynamics as well as transformations arising from development interventions and other societal processes by providing a structured framework and set of guidelines.
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    Links between water resources and infrastructure in water tenure
    (Book Chapter, 2024-11-28) van Koppen, Barbara
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    Water tenure: integrity at the interface between statutory and customary law in Africa
    (Book Chapter, 2024-11-28) Schreiner, B.; van Koppen, Barbara