1. MUS Multiple Water Use Systems

2. MUS: Multiple Use Systems
Aim: enhancing multiple water use systems
to meet the broader range of water needs (health, food, income, work reduction)
sustainably
among poor women and men
for poverty alleviation and gender equity
in rural and peri-urban areas
Challenge Program Water and Food, via IWMI

3. MUS: Multiple Use Systems
Five basins - eight countries
Limpopo: South Africa and Zimbabwe (IRC, AWARD, IWSD)
Nile: Ethiopia (University of Mekelle, CRS, IWMI)
Andes: Bolivia and Colombia (IRC, CINARA, Centro-Agua)
Indus Ganges: India and Nepal (IDE, IWMI)
Mekong: Thailand (Khon Kaen University)
Cross-basin working groups
Long-term partnership - fund raising

4. MUS: Action - Research
Full-fledged MUS/domestic+/productive+: a vision at three interconnected levels: community - intermediate - national
Learning by doing and documenting: assessing, visioning, implementing, critical reflecting
Learning by Learning Alliances
Learning about WHAT?

5. National
Flows of information, finances, etc
Intermediate
Flows of information, finances, etc
Community

6. Community Level Ownership and understanding of MUS and its impact
Enabling environment at intermediate level is elaborated in the next slide
Implementing a sustainable, equitable and effective MUS approach for improved livelihoods- principles to be addressed in the different phases of the project cycle at community level
Thorough understanding of poor people’s water-based livelihoods
Proper financial models
Effective and inclusive community institutions
Sustainable use of available water resources and services
Appropriate technology

7. Participatory project cycles followed in implementation programmes
Coordination of planning, implementation and financing among intermediate level stakeholders
Intermediate Level
Participatory project cycles followed in implementation programmes
Enabling environment at national level (to be elaborated in the next slide)
Intermediate level institutions to support communities in operation and maintenance and other support to MUS
Ownership and understanding of MUS and its impacts among all intermediate level stakeholders
Enabling environment for implementing and scaling up a sustainable, equitable and effective MUS approach; principles at intermediate/service provider level
Resources exist among intermediate level stakeholders to implement and upscale MUS
Capacity to follow a learning approach to MUS among intermediate level organisations

8. Ownership and understanding of MUS and its impacts among national level stakeholders
Coordination of planning, implementation and financing of MUS among national level organisations that enables coordination among intermediate level stakeholders
National policies, legislation, norms and standards allow for integrated participatory project cycles at local and enabling intermediate level
Implementing and scaling up a sustainable, equitable and effective MUS approach; principles at national level for an enabling environment
National water policies, legislation, and implementation programs allocate resources to enhance physical access of the poor to an equitable share of water for multiple uses
Capacity to support a learning approach to MUS among intermediate level organisations
National water policies and legislation, and their enforcement strategies, enhance legal access of the poor to an equitable share of water for multiple uses

9. Thank You