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1 Hastie, T.; Tibshirani, R.; Friedman, J. 2001. The elements of statistical learning: Data mining, inference, and prediction. New York, NY, USA: Springer-Verlag. xvi, 533p. (Springer series in statistics)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 519.5 G000 HAS Record No: H030488)
2 Varma, Samyuktha; Evans, Alexandra; da Silva Wells, C.; Jinapala, K. 2009. Attitudes and actions of participants in multi-stakeholder processes and platforms. Knowledge Management for Development Journal, 5(3):201-214. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/19474190903451165]
Water resource management ; Participatory management ; Wastewater irrigation ; Sanitation ; Hygiene ; Stakeholders ; Attitudes ; Learning ; Organizational change / Asia / Sri Lanka / Bangladesh / Kurunegala / Rajshahi
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042704)
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Multi-stakeholder processes (MSPs) and platforms are being used to address various aspects of water management. They have been championed as a way to improve planning and coordination to involve marginalized groups, and to increase learning and uptake of innovations. Between 2005 and 2008, a project called ‘WASPA Asia’ established multi-stakeholder platforms in two cities, Kurunegala in Sri Lanka and Rajshahi in Bangladesh, to address wastewater use in agriculture and its impact on farmers’ livelihoods. This paper presents findings on the benefits and constraints of a particular MSP around a ‘Learning Alliance’. It also describes and analyzes the methodology used to obtain findings and suggests ways in which such a methodology could be used to improve results of MSPs. The paper indicates that the obvious merit of MSPs is in providing spaces for information sharing and awareness-raising. In time, MSPs can evolve to bring about changes in stakeholders’ attitudes and actions but in many cases they are established around short-term projects, which limits their potential for (institutional) change. Given this constraint, attitudinal change and a better understanding of the issues amongst stakeholders are major accomplishments. Analysis of the methodology used for the review shows the benefits of regular joint monitoring, open communication, and the usefulness of relatively simple tools such as ‘change stories’.
3 Blokland, M. W.; Alaerts, G. J.; Kaspersma, J. M.; Hare, M. (Eds.) 2009. Capacity development for improved water management. Leiden, Netherlands: CRC Press. 382p.
Capacity building ; Training ; Knowledge management ; Water resource management ; Adaptability ; Learning ; Participatory management ; Community involvement ; Gender ; Equity / Colombia / Indonesia / Iran / Africa / Uganda
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 363.61 G000 BLO Record No: H043640)
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This book starts with an introduction and overview of progress and challenges in knowledge and capacity development in the water sector. The next part presents tools and techniques that are being used in knowledge and capacity development in response to the prevailing challenges in the water sector, and a review of experience with capacity change in other sectors. In the third part a number of cases are presented that cover knowledge and capacity development experiences in the water resources and water services sectors. This part also presents experiences on water education for children and on developing gender equity. The fourth part provides experiences with the monitoring and evaluation of knowledge and capacity building.
4 Le Borgne, E.; Pels, J.; Manning-Thomas, Nadia. 2009. Learning for the water sector: quenching the thirst for knowledge and bridging the banks?. Editorial. Knowledge Management for Development Journal, 5(3):197-200. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/19474190903451108]
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043667)
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5 Lennie, J.; Tacchi, J. 2013. Evaluating communication for development: a framework for social change. New York, NY, USA: Routledge - Earthscan. 189p.
Communication ; Evaluation ; Community development ; Social change ; Capacity development ; Learning ; Organizations
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 306.449 G000 LEN Record No: H045792)
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6 Vincent, K.; Cull, T.; Kapoor, A.; Aggarwal, Pramod; Bhatta, Gopal Datt; Lau, C.; Kristjanson, P.; Phartiyal, P.; Parvin, G.; Bisht, S.; Nilormee, S. 2013. Gender, climate change, agriculture and food security: a CCAFS Training-of-Trainers (TOT) manual to prepare South Asian rural women to adapt to climate change. Copenhagen, Denmark: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) 126p.
Gender ; Women ; Farmers ; Climate change ; Adaptation ; Food security ; Agriculture ; Training materials ; Manuals ; Learning ; Greenhouse effect ; Environmental effects ; Research projects ; Hydrological cycle / South Asia / India / Nepal / Bangladesh / Bihar / Indo-Gangetic Plains
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046067)
http://cgspace.cgiar.org//bitstream/handle/10568/33344/TOTManual.pdf?sequence=1
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046067.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046067.pdf
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7 Nicol, Alan; Langan, Simon; Victor, M.; Gonsalves, J. (Eds.) 2015. Water-smart agriculture in East Africa. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE); Kampala, Uganda: Global Water Initiative East Africa (GWI EA). 352p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2015.203]
Agriculture ; Water productivity ; Small scale farming ; Irrigation schemes ; Drip irrigation ; Vegetable growing ; Climate change ; Adaptation ; Food security ; Drought tolerance ; Crops ; Sorghum ; Rice ; Maize ; Livestock production ; Land management ; Watershed management ; Rain ; Water harvesting ; Water conservation ; Water use ; Water storage ; Groundwater ; Rehabilitation ; Soil conservation ; Participatory approaches ; Highlands ; Erosion ; Sustainable development ; Arid lands ; Catchment areas ; Wetlands ; Income ; Incentives ; Smallholders ; Dams ; Gender ; Natural resources management ; Learning ; Collective action ; Case studies / Africa / Tanzania / Ethiopia / Africa South of Sahara / Uganda / Horn of Africa / Manyoni / Singida / Agago / Otuke / Nile River Basin / Birr Watershed / Debre Mawi Watershed
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H046950)
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8 Lefore, Nicole. 2015. Strengthening facilitation competencies in development: processes, challenges and lessons of a learning alliance to develop facilitators for local community engagement. Knowledge Management for Development Journal, 11(1):118-135.
Capacity building ; Training ; Learning ; Local community ; Community development ; Water users ; Waste management ; Farmers ; Stakeholders ; Agricultural sector ; Sustainability ; Participatory approaches ; Non governmental organizations ; Case studies / East Africa / southern Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047007)
http://journal.km4dev.org/index.php/km4dj/article/viewFile/217/356
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047007.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047007.pdf
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Effective facilitation enables farmer-based water user organizations to analyse contextual issues, identify causal links, formulate clear challenges, develop partnerships with stakeholders, and innovate and implement solutions. However, facilitation is often provided by international partners, such as advanced research institutions or non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The reliance on external consultants to facilitate innovation and change processes creates risks for sustainability. This article provides an overview of a capacity development initiative for facilitation of change in the agriculture water sector in Africa. It focuses on the case study of the Improved Management for Agricultural Water in East and Southern Africa (IMAWESA) network’s learning alliance on facilitating community engagement. The IMAWESA learning alliance sought to build competency on facilitation methods and tools at national and sub-national levels within and across agricultural water management projects. The paper primarily seeks to address questions related to the sustainability of facilitated processes and the effectiveness of capacity development methods to train facilitators and thus strengthen local facilitation.
9 Langan, Simon; Kebede, H.; Tadesse, Desalegne; Terefe, B. (Eds.) 2015. Proceedings of the Launching Workshop of the Agricultural Water Management Platform, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 15-16 January 2015. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 56p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2015.210]
Agriculture ; Water management ; Agricultural sector ; Agricultural development ; Watershed management ; Water conservation ; Soil conservation ; Government policy ; Research institutions ; Investment ; Incentives ; Climate change ; Sustainability ; Land management ; Land degradation ; Farmers ; Smallholder ; Small scale farming ; Irrigation water ; Irrigation schemes ; Crop production ; Households ; Capacity building ; Learning / Ethiopia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047032)
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10 Chambers, R. 2014. Into the unknown: explorations in development practice. Warwickshire, UK: Practical Action Publishing. 148p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.3362/9781780448220]
Community development ; Development studies ; Participatory rural appraisal ; Group approaches ; Training programmes ; Learning ; Professionalism ; Knowledge management ; Policy ; Irrigation systems ; Research ; Political aspects ; Economic aspects ; Social aspects ; Poverty ; Sanitation / South Asia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 307.14 G000 CHA Record No: H047659)
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11 Taylor, S.; Asimah, S. A.; Buamah, R.; Nyarko, K.; Sekuma, S. P.; Coulibaly, Y. N.; Wozuame, A.; Jeffrey, P.; Parker, A. H. 2017. Towards sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene technology use in Sub-Saharan Africa: the learning alliance approach. Water Policy, 19(1):69-85. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2016.252]
Water supply ; Sanitation ; Hygiene ; Sustainability ; Technology assessment ; Stakeholders ; Capacity building ; Learning ; Attitudes ; Project design ; Innovation adoption ; Institutional development / Africa South of Sahara / Uganda / Ghana / Burkina Faso
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048025)
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To extend water, sanitation and hygiene services to all, technological innovations are required which take into account a diverse range of stakeholder perspectives. We report the experiences of an intervention which sought to build capacity in the assessment and introduction of technologies in Uganda, Ghana and Burkina Faso by developing the Technology Applicability Framework (TAF), a tool which culminates in a multi-stakeholder scoring workshop. The project also used Learning Alliances to build capacity around technology introduction. This paper explores how stakeholder attitudes changed through the project and evaluates the Learning Alliance approach. It finds that whilst the intervention did manage to connect stakeholders in a novel way, uptake of the TAF may be hampered by a lack of government involvement in the earliest stages of the project.
12 Lefore, Nicole; Weight, Elizabet; Rubin, D. 2017. Gender in irrigation learning and improvement tool. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). 40p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2017.203]
Gender ; Women's participation ; Men ; Equity ; Irrigation schemes ; Decision making ; Policy making ; Irrigation schemes ; Stakeholders ; Learning ; Training ; Literacy ; Land allocation ; Water resources ; Water use ; Domestic water ; Agricultural production ; Participatory approaches ; Governance ; Performance evaluation ; Investment ; Monitoring
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H048080)
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13 Mekuria, Wolde; Barron, Jennie; Dessalegn, Mengistu; Adimassu, Zenebe; Amare, T.; Wondie, M. 2017. Exclosures for ecosystem restoration and economic benefits in Ethiopia: a catalogue of management options. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). 28p. (WLE Research for Development (R4D) Learning Series 4) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2017.204]
Research and development ; Learning ; Capacity building ; Ecosystems ; Economic situation ; Stakeholders ; Smallholders ; Livestock production ; Milk production ; Woodlands ; Habitats ; Renewable energy ; Energy sources ; Natural resources management ; Gender ; Women ; Youth ; Guidelines ; Governance ; State intervention ; Local communities ; Community involvement ; Land use ; Land management ; Land degradation ; Living standards ; Income ; Fodder plants ; Soil conservation ; Water conservation ; Watershed management ; Management techniques ; Sustainability ; Risk reduction ; Private sector ; Public sector / Ethiopia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H048081)
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14 Nansambu, D.; Sugden, Fraser. 2017. A generation on the move: voices of youths in the context of climate change, migration, and livelihood transition. Session Report from the 11th International Community Based Adaptation Youth Conference, Kampala, Uganda, 26-29 June 2017. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 22p.
Climate change ; Rainwater ; Water harvesting ; Learning ; Agroforestry ; Youth ; Farming systems ; Coffee
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048245)
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15 Lefore, Nicole; Weight, Elizabeth; Mukhamedova, Nozilakhon. 2017. Improving gender equity in irrigation: application of a tool to promote learning and performance in Malawi and Uzbekistan. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) 31p. (WLE Research for Development (R4D) Learning Series 6) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2017.217]
Research and development ; Gender equity ; Learning ; Training programmes ; Performance evaluation ; Women ; Women’s participation ; Men ; Irrigation schemes ; Participation ; Improvement ; Assessment ; On-farm production ; Agricultural extension ; Agricultural production ; Productivity ; Water management ; Water allocation ; Farmers ; Market access ; Investment ; Community involvement ; Stakeholders ; Resource management ; Decision making ; State intervention / Malawi / Uzbekistan
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H048368)
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This paper provides a brief synthesis of research conducted on gender in irrigation, and the tools and frameworks used in the past to promote improvement for women in on-farm agricultural water management. It then presents results from the pilot of the Gender in Irrigation Learning and Improvement Tool (GILIT) in locations in Malawi and Uzbekistan in 2015. Through the results of the tool, the paper looks at benefit sharing between men and women farmers: (i) access to irrigation scheme resources (including information, for example, in the design phase; land, water and other inputs); (ii) participation in scheme management; and (iii) access to scheme benefits, including access to market information, packaging and payments. The indicators for the tool were modelled after principles reflected in existing gender policies and strategies, and intended to improve performance at field level in line with national and regional goals. The paper concludes with informal and formal constraints to gender-equitable outcomes from irrigation investments identified during the pilot, and suggests how the tool can be used by various development actors to improve the benefits for women from investments in agricultural water management.
16 Reddy, V. R.; Pavelic, Paul; Hanjra, M. A. 2018. Underground taming of floods for irrigation (UTFI) in the river basins of South Asia: institutionalising approaches and policies for sustainable water management and livelihood enhancement. Water Policy, 20(2):369-387. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2017.150]
Groundwater depletion ; Drought ; Flood irrigation ; Participatory communication ; Learning ; Payment for Ecosystem Services ; Environmental services ; Social legislation ; Regulations ; River basins ; Corporate culture ; Sustainability ; Water management ; Living standards ; Aquifers ; Watersheds ; Upstream ; Downstream
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048452)
Underground taming of floods for irrigation (UTFI) is a new approach for mitigating flood impacts through targeted floodwater storage in depleted aquifers for irrigating crops in the dry season. UTFI not only fosters the much desired conjunctive use and management of water resources but also provides the environmental services that are of high socioeconomic value. UTFI interventions are individually established at the local scale (e.g. village pond, check dam) but to achieve more substantial positive benefits at the scale of meso watersheds (10 s of km2) or sub-basins (100–1,000 s of km2) in the flood-prone river basins requires area-based implementation. Given the nature and scale required, UTFI needs to be managed at the community level with the help of appropriate institutional arrangements taking into account both the upstream and downstream locations. This paper reviews the existing institutional approaches and proposes an institutional framework that can help to mainstream UTFI management in the context of South Asia. The proposed model is centred on the existing formal institutions and also integrates non-market (participatory) and market (payment for ecosystem services) instruments that can provide win–win strategies for water resource management to downstream and upstream communities.
17 Re, V.; Misstear, B. 2018. Education and capacity development for groundwater resources management. In Villholth Karen G.; Lopez-Gunn, E.; Conti, K.; Garrido, A.; Van Der Gun, J. (Eds.). Advances in groundwater governance. Leiden, Netherlands: CRC Press. pp.215-230.
Groundwater management ; Water resources ; Water institutions ; Capacity building ; Education ; Training ; Learning ; Socioeconomic environment ; Nongovernmental organizations ; Policy making ; Scientists
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H048549)
18 Jordan, A.; Huitema, D.; van Asselt, H.; Forster, J. (Eds.) 2018. Governing climate change: polycentricity in action? Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 389p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108284646]
Climate change adaptation ; Governance ; International agreements ; Environmental conventions ; UNFCCC ; International organizations ; Environmental organizations ; State intervention ; Regulations ; International law ; Environmental policies ; Carbon markets ; Entrepreneurship ; Economic aspects ; Technology transfer ; Innovation ; Experimentation ; Energy technology ; Solar energy ; Towns ; Political aspects ; Equity ; Leadership ; Diffusion ; Monitoring ; Evaluation ; Learning
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048770)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/033486F6DA7F2CD1F8F3D6011B17909B/9781108418126AR.pdf/Governing_Climate_Change.pdf?event-type=FTLA
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048770.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048770.pdf
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19 Ringler, C.; Choufani, J.; Chase, C.; McCartney, Matthew; Mateo-Sagasta, Javier; Mekonnen, D.; Dickens, Chris. 2018. Meeting the nutrition and water targets of the Sustainable Development Goals: achieving progress through linked interventions. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE); Washington, DC, USA: The World Bank. 24p. (WLE Research for Development (R4D) Learning Series 7) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2018.221]
Research and development ; Learning ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Nutrition ; Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water supply ; Water quality ; Water security ; Water pollution ; Water use ; Water availability ; Waterborne diseases ; Sanitation ; Food security ; Food production ; Diet ; Sustainable agriculture ; Agricultural systems ; Drinking water ; Climate change ; Policy making ; Economic aspects ; Equity ; Landscape ; Public health ; Wastewater treatment ; Ecosystem services ; Communities ; Risk management ; Irrigation water
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H048974)
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Water and nutrition are linked in multiple ways, but few of these interlinkages are well understood. What is, for example, the exact relationship between water pollution and health or between water resource management and nutrition? Even less is known about the interactions across these various linkages. The importance of better understanding these connections has been highlighted as we pursue the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which challenge mankind to meet both water security as well as food and nutrition security goals, while also improving water-based ecosystems. It has become increasingly clear that progress toward these goals can only be achieved if measures in the food and nutrition space (SDG 2) do not constrain progress on water (SDG 6) and if measures undertaken to support targets under one of these SGDs also support the outcomes of the other. This paper provides an overview of water–nutrition linkages as reflected in the SDGs, and it identifies key gaps in these linkages and suggests a way forward to support the achievement of both water and nutrition goals and targets.
20 Gitau, J. K.; Mendum, R.; Njenga, M. 2018. Gender and improvement of cooking systems with biochar-producing gasifier stoves. In Njenga, M.; Mendum, R. (Eds.). Recovering bioenergy in Sub-Saharan Africa: gender dimensions, lessons and challenges. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). pp.49-57. (Resource Recovery and Reuse: Special Issue)
Energy generation ; Gender ; Cooking ; Biochar ; Gasifiers ; Stoves ; Biomass ; Charcoal ; Fuelwood ; Household consumption ; Role of women ; Learning ; Byproducts
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049006)
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