ICID Task Force on the Role
of Irrigation on Poverty Alleviation and Livelihoods
(TF-Poverty)
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About ICID
Objectives of the TF
Issues and Focus
Outputs
Membership
Minutes & Agendas
Case Studies
Bibliography
WWF5 Preparation 
NEWS (updated
28/08/08)
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1st
Consortium Meeting, Cemagref, Montpellier, 3 Sep 2008 -
more info
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2nd
Consortium Meeting, ICID Central Office, Delhi, 10 Oct 2008
Latest version of the Draft topic scoping paper and session plan
for WWF5 Topic 2.3
FAO-IFAD
publication "Water and the rural poor"
TF-Poverty Bibliography
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| About ICID |
| The International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID)
was established on 24 June, 1950 as a Scientific, Technical and Voluntary Not-for-profit
Non-Governmental International Organization (NGO) with headquarters in New Delhi, India. The Commission is dedicated to enhancing the worldwide supply of food and
fibre for all people by improving water and land management and the productivity of
irrigated and drained lands through appropriate management of water, environment and
application of irrigation, drainage and flood management techniques. |
Objectives of the Task Force |
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Objectives
The main purpose of
TF-Poverty is to prepare an ICID position to participate in the consortium
preparing WWF5's topic on "Water and food for ending poverty and
hunger". It is hence established for 2 years and will resume its
activities during the IEC meeting of Abuja in 2009, by drawing lessons from
the process of knowledge sharing and from WWF5 itself.
Its
specific objectives are to:
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Synthetize specific
knowledge and experience from the irrigation sector, to design pro-poor
actions in a wider understanding of irrigation, ie from full-irrigation
to supplementary irrigation along the whole rainfed-irrigated continuum
(aka agriculture water management).
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Look for technical
solutions that work, within a clearly defined socio-economic context, so
that it can be mobilized on a case specific approach.
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Emphasize multiple-use
irrigation systems (MUS) as a specific approach to alleviate poverty in
this context.
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Issues and focus |
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Common issues
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How to refine poverty
analysis with a better understanding of the role of irrigation in
livelihoods at household level and to scale it up to system and basin
level?
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How to identify the
best capability for optimal impact of pro-poor investment?
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How to upgrade
capacities, esp. how to raise the poorest and highly vulnerable to the
group of traditional/subsistence farmers, giving due recognition to the
social role of irrigation?
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How to upgrade
irrigation water services to support multiple use approaches, and how to
finance these upgrades?
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How to target pro-poor
interventions to make them effective?
Regional focus
The
group recognized that interventions differ regionally, and that it is not in
its mandate to detail too much at regional level. Prime focus on Africa, but
other regions (Asia, Latin America & the Caribbean) should not be forgotten,
esp. to draw some lessons learnt from irrigation and poverty alleviation
experiences, which are particularly numerous in Asia. |
Outputs |
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Outputs
Milestones
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WWF5 Preparation |
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ICID is now the coordinating
institution of the consortium preparing topic 2.3
Water and food
for ending poverty and hunger, under the leadership of Bart Schultz,
President Honoraire of ICID, and with a strong support of TF-Poverty and UN
Water. A draft topical issue paper has hence be prepared with inputs from
the TF, to be presented in early February in the forthcoming WWF5 2nd
Regional & Thematic Coordinators Meeting, to be held in Istanbul, 7-8
February 2008
In order to discuss, elaborate and finalise
the draft Topic Scoping Paper and Session Plan, two meetings have been
scheduled:
- The first
Consortium meeting on Wednesday September 3 in Montpellier, France
from 9 - 13 hour at CEMAGREF, Montpellier, France, 361 rue Jean-François
Breton, Room Mosson.
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Draft Meeting Agenda
- Preparatory Documents
- Contact: Dr. Alain
Vidal, tel: +33 4 67046338, mobile: +33 6 86078925, fax: +33 4
67166440, e-mail:
alain.vidal@cemagref.fr, or Ms. Chantal Miralles, e-mail:
chantal.miralles@cemagref.fr
- Access: Cemagref
Montpellier is located at the Northern limit of the city, at 30
minutes from downtown (where most hotels are located) using public
transportation (tramway + bus). Take the tramway (line 1 - blue
trams) towards Mosson and get off at St-Eloi station. Then take the
bus (line Navette) towards Agropolis and get off at Campus Agropolis
(ask for the bus stop next to the zoo), then take the rue
Jean-François Breton on your right and follow it on 400 m. Finally,
enter Cemagref on your left (see
map here).
- Accomodation: Most
participants will attend the
World Water Congress
and be accomodated through it. Please use your facorite hotel search
engine for your own in downtown, preferably close to the Tramway
line 1. There is a cheap and comfortable hotel close to Cemagref
called Heliotel (ask for
Cemagref price)
- The second Consortium meeting on
Friday October 10 in New Delhi, India from 9 – 12 hour at International
Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID), 48 Nyaya Marg,
Chanakyapuri, New Delhi 110121, India. Please also be available during
the afternoon for any follow-up actions that may arise during the
meeting. Contact Mr. M. Gopalakrishnan, Tel. +91 11 26883190, Fax 91 11
26115962, e-mail icid@icid.org, or
Mr. K.N. Sharma, Te l. +91 11 26116837; e-mail: icid@icid.org;
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Membership
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Members of
TF-Poverty
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Alain Vidal, Convener and Chair,
France
- Summer Allen, UC Davis USA
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Madhusudan
Bhattarai, AVRDC
- Anisa Divine, USCID USA
- Jean-Marc Faurès, FAO
- Peter Lee, ICID UK
- Monique Mikhail, IDE
- Audrey Nepveu, IFAD
- Christelle Pezon, IRC Netherlands
- Mary Renwick, Winrock
- Mark Svendsen, USCID USA
- Linden Vincent, WUR Netherlands
- Dennis Wichelns, University of
Hanover, USA
Composition of the Network linking with
TF-Poverty
- Wouter Linklaen Arriens, ADB
- Rudolph Cleveringa, IFAD
- Simon Cook, CPWF - BFP
- Annette Huber-Lee, CPWF
- Intizar Hussain, INPIM
- Nancy Johnson, CIAT
- Andrew Keller, Keller-Bliesner
Engineering
- Ian Makin, ADB
- Paul Polak, IDE
- Henri Tardieu, AFEID
- Barbara Van Koppen, IWMI
- Steve Vosti, UC Davis
- Jonathan Woolley, CPWF
- Bob Yoder, IDE
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Minutes and Agendas of Meetings |
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Agenda of the International Workshop on the
Role of Irrigation on Poverty Alleviation and Livelihoods
Sacramento (California), 4 October 2007, 14.00-17.00
Conclusions of the International
Workshop on the Role of Irrigation on Poverty Alleviation and Livelihoods
Sacramento (California), 4 October 2007 |
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Examples and
Case studies |
- The World
Bank approach on poverty analysis in agricultural water operations -
Salah Darghouth, Dept of Agriculture and Rural Development, The World
Bank
- Rethinking
water and poverty, the IFAD perspective - Audrey Nepveu de
Villemarceau, International Fund for Agricultural Development
- Water and the
rural poor: intervening to improve livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa
- Dennis Wichelns, Department of Economics, Hanover College,
Jean-Marc Faurès and Guido Santini, Land and Water Division, FAO
- CPWF research
advances on water productivity and poverty alleviation - Annette
Huber-Lee and Alain Vidal, Challenge Program on Water and Food
- Multiple-Use Approaches to Water
Services for the Poor: Assessment of the State of Knowledge and the
Potential Market Size - Mary Renwick, Water Innovation Program,
Winrock International
- MUS and IDE’s
experience in the Indus-Gangetic basin - Monique Mikhail and Bob
Yoder, International Development Enterprises
- Improving access
to water: an efficient and effective way to reduce poverty -
Summer Allen and Steve Vosti, UC Davis / Challenge Program on Water and
Food
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Bibliography |
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Water and Poverty
Irrigation to alleviate poverty
Poverty |
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