After months of planning, the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) is taking its first step toward an integrated approach for research and development. At the end of May, WLE will hold the Volta and Niger Basins Consultation and Design Workshop, the first in a series designed [...]
by Larry Harrington, CPWF Research Director We hear a lot about water scarcity. We hear that we are running out of fresh water, that food security is threatened, and that the grim consequences are already upon us. While there is some truth to this, it is easy to over-state the [...]
In honor of World Water Day, the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food has released a new series of posters. The CPWF Water Dialogue Poster Series derives key messages from work conducted from Phase 1 of the program (2003-2008) and presents them in striking visual cartoons. The posters are [...]
Photo: cc: Michael Foley World Water Day, March 22 2013 is the UN International Year of Water Cooperation. Water is a crucial factor in improving food security, health and nutrition and livelihoods. Water management can be challenging in any context and factors such as climate change, urbanization and a lack [...]
How are people supposed to talk to each other if they don’t speak the same language? I had my first encounter with this question during the planning meetings for MK11’s consultation workshops in Ngoy district, Luang Prabang province. I was sitting at a table with staff members from Village Focus [...]
March 2013 Director’s Blog, by Alain Vidal This week we are publishing thirteen CPWF outcome stories. Just a few days after the groundbreaking ceremony of the CGIAR Headquarters in Montpellier, where French authorities were told how the new CGIAR was “big, bold and beautiful”, these outcome stories may look small, [...]
CPWF-Mekong has now been working in the Mekong for almost four years. What have we achieved. Besides implementing a wide variety of projects, below are the emerging results from the program. By supporting dialogues surrounding the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocols (HSAP), these are now firmly established in the Mekong as one facet of the discussion [...]
Digital storytelling refers to short films composed of digitized still and moving images, sound and text. This is a highly effective way of presenting compelling stories in an engaging format. Digital stories can be created by people everywhere, on any subject and shared electronically. In November 2012 ILRI research staff [...]
The goal of this mini-blog series is to document the participatory process of a community modelling project taking place in the Mekong. Funded through a CPWF Research into Use grant, the project seeks to increase the diversity of stakeholders involved in the management of water resources in the Nam Theun [...]
As I prepared the presentation of my six-month CPWF science report to the IWMI Board last week, I reflected upon this year and all of the challenges we have gone through with CPWF. We have also learnt a lot as an organization, and I have learnt a lot myself by [...]
Making Our Research Relevant to the People That Matter in the Volta and Niger BasinsMay 23, 2013, 9:49 am
Outcomes are nice, but what about measuring them?March 12, 2013, 9:20 am
2012 End of the Year Director’s BlogDecember 20, 2012, 7:19 am
Rebutting extremism: a comment on the debate surrounding the Xayaburi Dam in LaosNovember 12, 2012, 2:19 pm
Closing the income gap: Reflections from World Water WeekSeptember 5, 2012, 12:41 am
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