Valentine J Gandhi, Nicole Lefore and Barbara Van Koppen IFAD, Household Methodologies Workshop, Entebbe, Uganda October 3rd to 10th 2013

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Household Methodologies and
IWMI
Valentine J Gandhi, Nicole Lefore and
Barbara Van Koppen
IFAD, Household Methodologies
Workshop, Entebbe, Uganda
October 3rd to 10th 2013

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IWMI – An Intro
• The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is a non-profit,
scientific research organization focusing on the sustainable use of water
and land resources in developing countries. IWMI is a member of CGIAR,
an international consortium of agricultural research centers.
• IWMI’s Mission is to improve the management of land and water
resources for food, livelihoods and the environment.
• Research is the core activity of IWMI. Cross cutting activities in all themes
include, assessment of land and water productivity and their relationship
to poverty, identification of interventions that improve productivity as well
as access to and sustainability of natural resources, assessment of the
impacts of interventions on productivity, livelihoods, health and
environmental sustainability.
• IWMI works through collaborative research with many partners in the
North and South and targets policy makers, development agencies,
individual farmers and private sector organizations.

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Need for HH Approach within IWMI
• WATER remains the ENTRY POINT for agricultural
growth for millions around the world.
• Mostly macro level (Landscapes, Hydrology, NRM)
information leading to Inefficient water
distribution/use, ineffective investments by donors in
water resources, inequitable, don’t train the right
people in interventions, imbalanced labor
requirements.
• Structural Aspects of Poverty often gets ignored.
• But this was on line with the earlier objectives of
IWMI. It is now transitioning

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RESEARCH
CHANGE&OUTCOMES
Transition to Research for Development
POLICIES
INVESTMENTS
PRACTICES
BIOPHYSICAL
SOCIAL
ECONOMICS
BUSINESS
RESEARCH OUTPUTS
INTERMEDIATE
DEVELOPMENT OUTCOMES

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IWMI and HH Methodologies
• Moving Beyond Research for Research (i.e. outputs) to
Research for Development (outcomes)
• IWMI hosts IMAWESA, an IFAD funded knowledge network
for AWM. Lessons from the field (under representation of
vulnerable groups)
• Africa Rising Intervention – Small Scale Irrigation at HH Level,
Outcome mapping and Sustainability Measures.
• Irrigation Innovation Lab (USAID)
• ICT Tools for Irrigation (SDC)
• LIVES – PRDA (Canada)
• Combining Macro data and HHM – Powerful Data enabling
targeted and practical interventions.

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Integrating HH data with GIS – An example

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HH methodologies for AWM
Household Economy Approach: Save the
children/Evidence for Development
- Livelihood Zoning, Outcome analysis, Markets, Food, non food etc,
beyond expenditure and consumption data. Integrates both quantitative
and qualitative tools.
Household Based Approach – Asian Development Bank
- Household, Assets and Aspirations
Social Analysis – Risk, Vulnerability and Outcome mapping
LIVES – Participatory Rapid Diagnosis and Action Planning

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Pilot Project Objectives
• Identifying guidelines for the household approach that
could be useful for AWM interventions; what would the
objectives be for a household approach with respect to
AWM.
• Facilitating the household level dialogue, etc. What
would be key issues for facilitators to understand?
What types of tools might be integrated into a
household approach where investment is in AWM or
some type of NRM planning?
• What IWMI’s next steps are to further refine guidelines
for HH approach for AWM (or elements that could be
added into projects with AWM component)
• Utilizing Innovation Platforms?

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