Lessons learnt on scaling-up multiple-use water services

Barbara van KoppenInternational Water Management Institute

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1 Andes (Colombia & Bolivia)

2 Limpopo (Zimbabwe & South Africa)

3 Nile (Ethiopia)

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4 Indus-Ganges (India & Nepal)

5 Mekong (Thailand)

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Lessons from the Learning Alliances of the ‘MUS project’

of the Challenge Program Water and Food

This presentation

Project focus on

Homestead-scale MUS

Community-scale MUS

Scaling-up by five water stakeholder groups

Water users, CBOs, and local private service providers

NGOs

Domestic sector

Productive sector

Local government

Homestead-scale MUS50-100 lpcd; 5 lpcd safe

‘most MDG per drop’

healthlabour saving,

gender

resilient food and income….

..from livestock..from fish

..from enterprise

..from crops

Community-scale MUS Multiple sources, shared infrastructure, re-use

People’s participation for livelihoods and sustainability

1. Water users, CBOs

Own investments and innovations for self-supply and local management have always been for MUS

Seeking to integrate fragmented professional support

Communal self-supply in peri-urban Cochabamba, Bolivia

Farmer Wisdom Network N.E. Thailand

Water for Food Movement South Africa

2. NGOs

MUS increasingly obvious for livelihoods goals

Technological innovation homestead-&community-scale MUS

Institutionalizing MUS in government for sustainability and upscaling

Mvuramanzi, Zimbabwe

CRS, Adi Daero basin,

Ethiopia

IDE, Nepal

3. Domestic sector

Targeting everybody, including the poor, and homesteads Single-use expertise on health Expertise on engineering and management for small-scale usesClaiming unplanned livelihood benefits Recognizing higher design norms for anticipated expansionFuture planning for higher service levels, with 5 lpcd safe Moving up from ‘add-ons’ to community-scale MUS

Cinara, PAAR, Colombia

IDE, Jalswarajya/Aple Pani Maharashtra

4. Productive sector

Expertise on productive end-uses at fields and direct access (crops, soils, markets, livestock, fisheries)

Expertise on engineering and management for larger-scale uses and water resources management

Recognizing the homestead as a site of pro-poor and gender-equitable productive water uses, besides domestic uses

Moving from ‘irrigation add-ons’ to community-scale MUS

5. Local government

Permanent democratic interface to match communities’ needs with fragmented support

Developing implementation capacity for iterative community-scale MUS (e.g. SADC seven steps approach)

AWARD, South Africa, integrating MUS in municipal Integrated Development Plans

In sum Opportunities for Scaling-up MUS

Water users, CBOs and NGOs:

Community-scale MUS for livelihoods

Homestead-scale MUS a likely priority

Domestic and productive sectors:

Merging resources and expertise on engineering and management across sites and scales;

Providing single-use expertise according to people’s priorities

Local government: the coordinator

Thank you

for your attention

All outputs at

www.musproject.net

www.musgroup.net

CRS, Adi Daero sub-basin, Ethiopia