1. Group 1 Amhara Oromia Benshangul Research University Donor CGIAR No Federal?

2. Implementation capacity problem – knowledge and coordination problem Livestock management Challenges Multiple stakeholders/actors Best practices Opportunities Program ideas Boundary conditions 1 mill. USD Short time BNB

3. Program Topic 1.Enhancing Community Based Integrated RWM 2.Ensuring Sustainable Adoption of Best Practices of RWM 3.Validation and Scaling out of Best Practices of RWM Validation and Scaling out of Best Practices of RWM

4. Beneficiaries Direct beneficiaries – Farmers in the basin (poor, women, unemployed) – Community based service providers and self-help groups Indirect beneficiaries – Private enterprises involve in the value chain system – Input and credit service providers – Extension

5. Approach Grass Root Level Capacity Development and Empowerment Local knowledge integration Need assessment Establishing baseline Community play role of facilitation of processes by themselves Planning: community and stakeholder participation (bottom-up) Implementation: FREG, participatory learning /action research, test sites Strengthening grass root organizations/institutions

6. Issues to be addressed in the program Knowledge gap of implementers No real participation of the community Inadequate Research-extension linkage No strong/well established input delivery system – technology products and supporting inputs Poor value-chain for market Role of credit and extension services

7. Main activities 1.Community empowerment  Organize and legalize community organizations and user groups (considering social strata or typology)  Equip with communication facility, learning tools  Application of learning tools – (WAT-a-GAME, participatory learning)  Train and empower the community for decision making on resources management, grant management, leadership, facilitation and ownership of processes 2.Capacity development  Training main actors – DAs, watershed committee, etc  Empower regulatory functions –enforce rules  Experience sharing  Strengthening facilities Boundary conditions 1 mill. USD Short time BNB

8. 3.Linkage and cooperation – engage in planning, implementation, M&E  Strengthen platforms at different levels 4.Value-chain system  Organize actors in the value chain – input, product  Strength marketing system 5.Research and extension  Selection of technologies and best practices – WHAT? and WHERE?  Action research (and validation)  Scaling out  Process and impact monitoring

9. Outcomes Attitude and knowledge IncomeEmployment Sedimentation & hydrology M&E indicators Organized Self-help groups Enforcement of bylaws/rules Controlled Free grazing Feed development Facilitation and leadership quality HHs adopting technologies Area covered by best practices Increase in productivity – yield/ha, yield/water, livestock/head, livestock/water Income/head, net value Labor employed – farm and off-farm On-site erosion Sediment Discharge

10. M&E and learning – Quarterly reporting – Participatory M&E Establish Community based M&E – eg. FREG, Joint supervision and monitoring by actors/stakeholder platforms Application of participatory M&E methods/models Communication – Platforms – Learning tools – WAT-a-Game – FREG – Field days – Radio or mobile technology Stakeholder coordination – Platforms