Working towards “out-scaling strategies” for WLI technologies WLI Socio-Economic Thematic Group Bezaiet Dessalegn

The overall goal of WLI is to improve the livelihoods of rural households and communities, through the development and pilot testing of integrated water, land, and livelihood strategies on selected benchmark sites for scaling out

Impact pathways and theories of change Willingness to adopt WLI promoted technologies Revise the logical framework (regional and national level) Working towards out-scaling WLI promoted technologies

Impact Pathways and Theories of Change  Regional Workshop on "Catalyzing Change through the Impact Pathway and Theories of Change", April 2014, Amman  NCARE and UF  14 participants from 7 countries

CountryImproved technologies or management practices Egyptirrigation water scheduling, soil improvement, raised-bed technology Iraq deficit irrigation, surface and subsurface drip irrigation, greenhouses, organic fertilizers and amino acids, livestock and forage production, use of saline water to grow maize Jordan Introduction and evaluation of drought resistant shrubs, water harvesting using continuous and intermittent contour ridges with Vallerani, water spreading (marabs), terraces, cisterns for family use, and planting of different species of barley in Marabs, as well as different varieties of vetch, safflower, and shrubs. Lebanon water harvesting - najarims, conservation agriculture, good agricultural practices - IPM, deficit irrigation, introduction of new varieties (wheat, barley, and chickpeas, grape, apricot, cactus) and local grape varieties Palestine Silage, hydroponics, introduction of native plant species and drought resistant wheat and barley, water harvesting (terraces, semi-circle bund and eye brow) Syria Deficit irrigation using drip irrigation to grow sorghum, integrated crop-livestock production, supplemental irrigation to grow medicinal crops for income generation, water accounting for the Orontes River Tunisia supplemental irrigation, deficit irrigation, water harvesting, soil and water conservation, alley cropping, and zero tillage Yemensupplemental irrigation for spate irrigated sesame, lipid forage WLI promoted technologies and strategies

Regional Comparative Study on Willingness to Adopt selected technologies CountriesTechnologies EgyptRaised bed IraqSub-surface irrigation JordanMarab LebanonConservation Ag. PalestineSilage production TunisiaDeficit irrigation for citrus production Iraq: white Agralic screen (Agral 17) to improving the Cucumber production Under Greenhouse

Assessing Perceptions & Constraints Objective: Improve technology dissemination strategies and approaches that promote adoption of proven water and land management technologies by identifying researcher, extension, and farmer- based perceptions and constraints.  Additional support from MEAS

 Assess farmers’ perceptions of, and exposure to, the technology  Assess researchers’ perceptions of technology development and existing dissemination strategy  Assess extension agents’ perspective on existing technology dissemination strategies  Identify potential challenges and opportunities for adoption by farmers including gender-based constraints  Initiate dialogue between extension agents and researchers for good practices that can accelerate adoption rates  Develop new and effective technology dissemination strategies with regional applicability. Specific objectives

Progress to date and plans for  Teams identifiedData collection and analysis  Funding securedFinal workshop  Questionnaire designed and translated Write up Jenn from UF ready to go out to the sites immediately Secure additional funding

M&E -WLI Logical Framework  Designed in 2009  Revisit the expected outputs and outcomes  Identify appropriate verifiable indicators  Develop revised framework

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