1. N3 Partner Technical Meeting, March 28-29
A LANDSCAPE APPROACH TO RAINWATER MANAGEMENT IN ETHIOPIA: Targeting and Scaling out
Lisa-Maria Rebelo
IWMI Addis Ababa
N3 Partner Technical Meeting, March 28-29

2. Background assessment of the Nile basin
CPWF Phase 1 - Nile BFP Project Objective:
To identify high potential water management interventions to reduce poverty and increase water productivity
There are numerous opportunities to manage water better for agriculture in order to improve productivity, food security and livelihoods
While most of the focus has been on river water, we start with rainfall to look for opportunities outside of the river
Significant gains can be made through improving rainfed production systems through better agricultural water management
Access to water is related to poverty, not availability – need to differentiate between access and availability
In upstream basin countries water access is limited, and water productivity low – key to poverty reduction.

3. Background assessment of the Nile basin:
Water consumption:
Rain = 1745 km3
Rainfed ET – 190 km3
Irrigated ET – 67 km3
Outflow – 10 to 30 km3
Limited options to expand irrigation, ample options to upgrade agriculture on rainfed lands

4. Background assessment of the Nile basin:
RWM Intervention Analysis:
What are the existing water related interventions in the basin under various production systems?
Which interventions have succeeded and which ones failed?
Which future interventions are needed to have a high impact on poverty, water availability, access and productivity for various target groups?
Production/farming system:
Crop/Livestock/Rainfed
Biophysical:
Infrastructural
Water and land based (eg watershed management)
Socio-economic:
Ag trade, virtual water
Hydropower-generation, power trade, interconnection
Industrial – value addition
Institutions and policies:
Institutional innovations, basin, sub-basin institutions
Benefit/water-sharing

5. Required: Identification + disseminate of site specific technologies
Extreme biophysical variations
Elevation, soil, climate
Population pressure and land degradation
Shortage of land
Encroachment to marginal lands
Exacerbating deforestation and erosion
Reduced land and water productivity
Poor infrastructural development
Limited use of modern technologies
Lack of site specific technologies
Lack of integrated approach
Increased poverty, food insecurity,
vulnerability to climate change
Major challenges to agriculture
Required: Identification + disseminate of site specific technologies
Pre-requisite: identify “Homogeneous Units”

6. CPWF Phase 2: The Nile Basin Development Challenge
N3: A landscape approach to rainwater management in Ethiopia - Targeting and Scaling out
Matching technologies (or whole strategies) to environments
Suitability of technologies may be influenced by many different factors
“Blanket” RMS are often inappropriate

7. CPWF Phase 2: The Nile Basin Development Challenge
N3 aims to identify the conditions – biophysical/socioeconomic/institutional – that favour the use of particular sets of practices, then scan the landscape to find out where else these conditions prevail (the “conditionality of recommendations”)
improve the targeting of interventions and enable successful scaling up

8. CPWF Phase 2: The Nile Basin Development Challenge
Matching interventions to environments
Baseline assessments of biophysical environment
Identification of RWM interventions and location
Matching of RWM systems to conditions on the ground
Linking of interventions to extrapolation domains
Assessment of potential biophysical and socioeconomic impacts
Identification of interventions that
i) currently exist in the basin
ii) are available elsewhere
Targeting tool

9. Thank you! CPWF Phase 2: The Nile Basin Development Challenge
N3: A landscape approach to rainwater management in Ethiopia - Targeting and Scaling out
Thank you!