Participant Reflections from a Cambodian Study Tour to Lao’s Theun-Hinboun Expansion Project Dam Site From February 13-18, 2012 thirteen participants took part in a study tour to the Theun-Hinboun Dam expansion project in Lao PDR. Traveling from Steung Treng Province in Cambodia this diverse group, made up of Cambodian provincial government officials, NGO workers and [...]
Read moreIn Phase 2, the Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) looks to address specific basin development challenges in six river basins. Collaborative partnerships ensure both ownership and use of our research. Identifying program partners who could help CPWF to achieve its research-for-development goals was one of the first activities of Phase 2. Active stakeholder [...]
Read moreI don’t know about you, but I’m tired of having my awareness raised. It seems every other paper, report or project proposal I pick up is invoking “awareness raising” as rationale, output, outcome or impact and sometimes all four at the same time. Can awareness raising really be all those things, or is it just [...]
Read moreSeveral key members of the Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) community, among them the Management Team and Basin Leaders, met in February for a few days of quiet reflection. One of the topics discussed was related to our “global messages” (see box): what did we, as the CPWF, wish to say to the [...]
Read moreLire la version française. Communication activities do not always form a coherent whole for the Volta Basin Development Challenge (VBDC). Integration, guidance and ongoing collective documentation and reflection can significantly enhance the good efforts undertaken by all in the Volta so far. In a two-day workshop (27-28 March), representatives from all individual Volta projects came together to [...]
Read moreEthiopia receives abundant rainfall but often too much comes at once leading to long periods of water scarcity and problems with soil erosion –interventions tend to be driven by decision makers and there is a need to find ways of giving local communities more ownership of the process. The CGIAR Challenge Program for Water and [...]
Read moreThe uncertainty of science is one of the hardest things to communicate and has been a hindrance to starting many conversations about climate change. The session at Planet Under Pressure (PUP) “Communicating climate change: achieving richer public engagement” sought to answer the following discussions: How can we enhance interest in climate change discussions? How can [...]
Read more“Are we just talking to ourselves?” (Nishai Pillai, facilitator at Planet Under Pressure) A major stream of discussion at Planet under Pressure (PUP) has been how we communicate science. Many of the challenges facing the planet are not about technical solutions but rather how we communicate and negotiate science into political debates. The CGIAR Consortium Office and its 15 [...]
Read more“I was conducting surveys, when I realized that I had missed a lot of important information because I hadn’t designed my survey to take into account gender issues—I felt ignorant.” (Male) “In another job, my assistant was a male older than me. When we went to meetings together, many times people thought that he was [...]
Read morePosted by Olufunke Cofie, CPWF Volta Basin Leader Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) should not be seen as “theory” even though it is guided by some theoretical principles. The guiding theory is to help us ask the right questions, think broadly, and define, as simply as possible, appropriate gauging parameters for effective monitoring. Hence project evaluation [...]
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Learning from Laos: Hydropower Development and Affected CommunitiesMay 16, 2012, 1:37 amSocial Network Analysis: Capitalizing on Partner ConnectionsMay 14, 2012, 3:16 amOn Awareness and Its RaisingMay 13, 2012, 10:57 pmCPWF’s Emerging Messages ExplainedApril 8, 2012, 10:03 pmCommunication in the Volta Basin: A workshop brick in the wall of collective research for developmentApril 2, 2012, 1:28 am
