The 3rd International Forum on Water and Food (IFWF3), convened in Tshwane, South Africa during November 2011. IFWF3 demonstrated the value of CPWF’s multi-stakeholder, research-for-development approach. The Forum report, entitled “Streams of innovation: Improving people’s lives through research on water and food“, synthesizes the main outcomes and issues identified at the IFWF3 and serves as [...]
Read moreParticipant 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 moreFrom ILRI Clippings: Earlier this year, the International Development Research Centre (Canada) published a book titled Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of East Africa. In this short video interview, Ethiopian scientist Tilahun Amede, on joint appointment with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and leader of a [...]
Read moreCPWF E-letter, April 2012 Director’s Message The last couple of months have marked an exciting period for CPWF and its partners. As we have refined and crafted our logic, numerous opportunities have arisen to present these messages at fora around the world. One major exercise we worked on was to hone our messages based on [...]
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Thoughts from the Andes 2012 Study Tour Leaving Lima, en route to the upper Cañete basin, we passed through some of the bleakest landscapes imaginable – mining towns like La Oroya, described by Time Magazine as one of the world’s most polluted places, where the average lead level is three times the World Health Organization [...]
Read moreThe last couple of months have marked an exciting period for CPWF and its partners. As we have refined and crafted our logic, numerous opportunities have arisen to present these messages at fora around the world. One major exercise we have worked on was to hone our messages based on Phase 1 results, emerging lessons [...]
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 moreConventional planning and decision-making often fail to address what are inherently inter-linked and inter-dependent processes. If the future needs of the global population are to be met, particularly the needs of the poor who do not have access to basic services, a more inter-linked approach to tackling water, food and energy issues is necessary. The [...]
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