6th Regional Coordination MeetingAmman – Jordan, 2014

Water Management Strategies and Impacts on Livelihoods in

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WLI Goal and Intended Outputs

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Overall Goal: to improve the livelihoods of rural households and communities in areas where water scarcity, land degradation, and associated problems are prevalent.

Intended Outputs: 1. Integrated water and land-use strategies for policy-making, tools for sustainable benchmark management and organizational mechanisms for community inclusion at the benchmark site.2. Enhanced knowledge, skills and qualifications for key stakeholders in the benchmark sites.3. Improved rural livelihoods of farmers in the benchmark sites through the adoption of sustainable land and water management practices and livelihood strategies.

National Policy Objectives in Palestine:1. The resilience of farmers and small scale herders affected/threatened by

shocks is protected and livelihoods restored 2. Enhanced agricultural production, productivity, competitiveness, as well as

enhanced contribution of agriculture to food security. . 3. Efficient and sustainable management of natural resources include the

optimized usage of scarce water resources and responding to climate 4. Improving agricultural practices, combating land and rangelands

degradation and introducing sustainable production systems.

Mechanisms for Community InclusionSite Advisory Group Members

MoA- Dura Agricultural Directorate

MoA – Tubas Agricultural Directorate

Ad Dahirya agricultural cooperative for plant and animal production

Sumara Women Cooperative

MoLG (local Councils of Atuff & Sumara)

An-Nasarieh women cooperative

Atuff Women Association

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Associations Benefitted (FTF indicator)

1. 8 animal breeders trained on silage production, and 4 farmers on growing barley through hydroponic.

2. 10 women trained on non-conventional cheese making

3. 58 farmers trained on water harvesting techniques. 4. 10 under graduated students trained on hydroponic. 5. 52 farmers got the opportunity to practice water

harvesting on their lands. 6. 84 farmers benefited from the up scaled projects'

activities (drought resistant Wheat and Barley)7. 58 farming families benefited from plating drought

resistant varieties. 8. Atuf cooperative benefited from the implemented

silage making and feeding demonstration Job opportunities: paid 436 days for 194 personsIn kind work (beneficiaries): 218 days.

Tammun & Hebron Benchmarks , PALESTINE

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Target population 9 villages 707 households 4,243 total inhabitants 1268 adult male , 1489adult female

FTF Indicator: Number of hectares under improved technologies or management practices as a result of USG assistance: (17.8 ha)

Benchmark site (5,210 ha)GPS coordinates in annual report

Up scaling area (42 ha)

Pilot area(s) for data collection(116 ha)

Administrative boundaries Tubas and Hebron

Water catchment areas (56ha)

Central highland (2,628 ha) AridEastern Slope (2,582 ha) Semi arid

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Improving Water and Land Management: Field Level

• Water Harvesting techniques:– Semi-circles bund – Contour ridges – Check dams

• Planted with rangeland shrubs, wheat and barley

• The results showed:– The WH models are founded suitable as

following: – Semi-circle bund is suitable for shrubs– Check dams suitable for field crops– Contour ridges suitable for rangeland shrubs

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Improving Water and Land Management: Field Level (Contd.)

• On the verities level:– Several wheat verities were tested

in the filed crops land: – Sham 3, Hetieh, Debieh, Anbar, F8

and Kahatat.– Each variety was planted with an

area of 10 ha per each variety.• The obtained results showed that:

– Within the benchmark area, the biomass of harvested Sham 3 and Hetieh the highest.

– In the up-scaled areas (outside the Benchmark) also, the highest production form seeds and hay was achieved by Sham 3 and Hetieh.

Improving Land & Water Management: Pilot testing at Field-level

Development and Use of Technologies (FTF Indicators)Technology Stage of Devt Land Area (ha) Users (m) Users (f)

Reintroducing the indigenous species in the rangeland areas

Recently Started/ continue

1.8 8 2

Introduction of drought resistance cereal species.

Continuous 102 122 20

Adopting Water harvesting techniques

Continuous 56 40 12

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Understanding and improving on-farm Income

Farm Budget Type A• Input costs: Sheep fed by the

combination of concentrated feed + hay:

• Feeding cost: 531 USD/ head/year

• Milk production = 220 liter • Total revenue = 610 USD• Net return = 79 USD

Farm Budget Type B• Input costs: Sheep fed by the

combination of concentrated feed Silage + hay:

• Feeding cost: 440 USD/ head/year

• Milk production = 244 liter • Total revenue = 638 USD• Net return = 198 USD

Predicting Results from Livelihood Improvement

Estimated Household Income from Occupation A

• During the year 2015, The demonstration will be up-scaled on household level

Estimated Household Income from Occupation B

Summary of Enhanced Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications at the Benchmark Site

In-countryFarmers:• Trainings on cheese

production, water harvesting, silage and hydroponic.

70 male and 10 females

Building the capacities of the project team and MoA in water harvesting techniques (both lectures and on field training)

Regional1. "The Economics of natural

Resource Management", 24-25 June 2014, Amman – Jordan

(2 persons, males) 2. "Catalysing Change through the Impact Pathway and Theories of Change", WLI Socio-Economic Thematic Group, 15-17 April 2014, Amman – Jordan (3 persons, males)

Challenges, Needs and Opportunities

• Challenges – Fluctuation of rainfall– Drought – Land degradation – Community commencement– High cost of agro-inputs. – Political conflict

• Needs: – Continue the human capacity building– Up-scaling the succeeded field experiments and demonstrations– Financial resources to cover the costs

• Opportunities: – Linking the WLI initiatives with other institutional funds– Enhancement of partnership between the civil society and governments – Exchange/win the knowhow on national, regional and international levels.– Sustain the natural resources management .

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Draft Workplan for 2015: Accelerated Schedule

2015 2014

12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 12 11

Improve Water Mgt Strategies

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Improve Livelihoods

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Exchange Knowledge

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Quarterly & Annual ReportingMonitoring WLI Indicators

Resource Mobilization Plan for 2015: (Country)Total (US$)

Additional Resource Needs

Other Sources (K US$) WLI Seed Fund (US$)

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Eg 1 million 30 ,000.00 US$ GRAND TOTAL

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Research Team Members Institutions

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Socio-economic Component