CPWF research for 2009-2014

Research in CPWF’s Phase 2 is designed to contribute to solving an important and pressing Basin Development Challenge (BDC).  Each BDC research challenge is made up of four to five projects of which one is a coordination project responsible for fostering learning across the BDC in support of innovation and adaptive management.

The CPWF seeks to contribute to developmental outcomes and impact by ensuring quality of research and quality of process.

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 and Resilience – whether it be the practices of collective fishers or the policies of governments - in six river basins around the world.

Through its Basin Development Challenges, 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, multiple use water systems, and better sharing of benefits from water, the CPWF aim to help people and their ecosystems become more productive and 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.