Work Packages
The WaterPIP project is broken down into 5 distinct but interconnected work packages:
Click on the boxes below to find out more information about each work package:
Work Package 1: Assisting water projects
The objective of Work Package 1 (WP1) is to guide water projects and programs in understanding the concept of water productivity, to be able to report on trends in water productivity, identify causes for variability and decline in water productivity, and to be able to select a course of action for improving water productivity. All of these efforts will work towards the target of increasing water productivity by 25% as stipulated by the Dutch governmental agenda. The definition of water productivity used here is broad, and includes biophysical and socioeconomic parameters. The aim is to develop standardized protocols for analyzing biophysical water productivity (e.g., using WaPOR or AquaCrop), to complete diagnostic analyses to identify the causes for low water productivity, and to identify and discuss measures to improve water productivity with (agricultural) water managers and users.
Work Package 2: Agri-business & IT
Work Package 2 (WP2) aims at providing services to promote and facilitate improving water productivity. It involves connecting with small and medium-sized enterprises, non-governmental organisations, and agri-businesses, and engage them in putting water productivity into practice. Farmers, suppliers, financers, processing industries, public sector, and information technology (IT) companies need to collaborate to develop solutions to improve water productivity.
The objective of WP2 is to:
- Identify local use cases and engage with, and support (potential) WaPOR users through local service centers (engage)
- Improve access to and interpretation/analysis/usage of WaPOR data and information by (co-)developing applications (develop)
- Share, demonstrate and showcase water productivity tools through a repository and country based water productivity events (demonstrate)
See activities and outputs from WP2
Work Package 3: Assisting national policies
In Work Package 3 (WP3), the WaterPIP team will focus their efforts on assisting national policies in Egypt, Jordan, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Sudan. This assistance will be delivered through policy dialogues. Many valuable opinions and insights will exist on how to be more productive with water regions in a particular region. A policy dialogue is then useful to get a deeper understanding of current and alternative policy directions. The dialogue should move beyond mere water productivity (for instance crops per drops as pure policy objective), as in reality many more factors will play a role in decision-making processes on new policies for water management, such as employment generation, energy blending targets, poverty alleviation, food sovereignty, environment.
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Work Package 4: International upscaling
Work Package 4 (WP4) aims at increasing the engagement of governments, donors and funders to put improving water productivity higher on the global agenda. Technical and communication material will be developed building on WaPOR applications and case studies developed by WP1-3. WP4 communicates how water productivity improvement goes beyond biophysical improvement and links to socio-economic dimensions. It makes explicit the trade-offs intrinsic to various kinds of decision-making and priority setting related to agriculture and water management. In order to strengthen the link with the international agenda (Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other relevant reporting frameworks), WP4 focuses on repackaging the case studies and tools developed in other work packages to support reporting on SDG 6.4, to which FAO is custodian agency, as well as other internationally relevant themes such as drought and dryland farming.
Work Package 5: Knowledge hubs
Work Package 5 (WP5) aims at setting up knowledge hubs in target countries to uptake training activities and support on WP, develop a MOOC on water productivity, and to integrate water productivity related topics in research projects and curriculums run by academia in target countries. WP5 aims to increase the reach of the water productivity based assessments by developing knowledge hubs, specialized curriculums, a MOOC, and training materials in partnership with academic institutes in the south and will include additional uptake activities to disseminate the developed materials.