CPWF research for 2009-2014

Recognized internationally for innovative practices, equality and vision, CPWF stakeholders value:

• CPWF partnerships for creating strong social capital, as they link water and food institutions to each other, to rural communities, and to development experts seeking to alleviate poverty; and
• Impact from rigorous scientific results of the first five years of the program's Phase 1 research

The Phase 2 call for Open Competition Projects is now underway, in staggered stages of action for each of the six basins.

CPWF builds on its lessons learned 
The CPWF continues in its streamlined ‘Phase 2’ form to work with its hard-won successes built over the last five years.

In continuity with the Phase 1 research and its innovative Program-level synthesis and analysis work, the CPWF is now focusing on different aspects of Water Productivity – whether it be the practices of collective fishers or the policies of governments - in six river basins.

By identifying water-related basin development challenges through its community-of-practices' expertise, the CPWF will try to unlock the constraints that prevent people in developing countries from improving the quantity of food and income they can generate from cropping, fisheries and livestock.

Through improved rainwater management, strengthened and resilient multiple use systems, and better sharing of benefits from water, the CPWF aim to help people and their ecosystems become more resilient to local and global change.

Geographically, in Phase 2 the CPWF will concentrate the efforts of its community-of-practice on six river basins - the Andes, Ganges, Limpopo, Mekong, Nile, Volta - and in those river basins its focus will be on sub-regions where the potential impact of improved water management on poverty and livelihoods is the highest.