A New and Tighter Research Framework |
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In 2005, IWMI developed a new and tighter research framework to help the Institute better carry out its mission, while contributing to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of reducing poverty and hunger and maintaining a healthy environment. Under the new research framework, IWMI’s work falls into four blocks or activities: Mapping Water Productivity to assess water productivity at basin level for key crops and complementary livestock/fishery outputs, livelihood strategies and environmental values, spatially disaggregated across the basin. This provides a basis for understanding productive land and water use. Mapping Water Poverty (WPv) to assess spatial patterns of poverty and poor people’s access to productive land and water resources throughout the basin. This helps to identify target groups that could benefit from improved access to land and water resources. Analyzing High–Potential Interventions to identify, assess and possibly develop interventions such as technologies or combinations of technologies, institutions and policies that can improve land and water productivity and access to land and water resources while maintaining the sustainability of natural resource use. Assessing Impacts to determine the impacts of specific interventions on water and land productivity as well as on water poverty and the potential impact of interventions under different adoption scenarios on areas such as water productivity, livelihoods, health and resource use at basin scale. This new framework is expected to help tighten the focus of IWMI’s research in the years to come.
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