AgWater Solutions is producing tools and databases to improve the targeting, design, implementation, and evaluation of agricultural water management investments. These tools are not just for researchers. Many can also be used by investors, project implementers and evaluators. To access currently available tools, click on the highlighted links in the descriptions below.
- If you are involved in designing or implementing agricultural water management projects, you will find Participatory Rapid Opportunities and Constraints Analysis (PROCA) useful. This tool provides an approach to analyzing and evaluating potential AWM solutions to identify the most promising for a specific context.
- If you are deciding on how to invest in agricultural water management, check out AgWater Solutions’ interactive, web-based inventory of technologies and intervention approaches (AWM Solutions Database). This tools enables investors, researchers and implementers to see what has been tried in the past and what has worked where in order to better understand the opportunities and constraints associated with different technologies and intervention approaches.
- Interested in increasing project success rates and benefiting women equally with men? Gender mapping can help. By categorizing farming systems according to the predominant patterns of decision-making – male, female, joint or mixed – gender mapping helps improve targeting of information and implementation efforts and reveals opportunities to unlock women’s productive potential.
Other research and knowledge tools that will be made available here as they are completed include:
- Bio-physical and socio-economic data collected through the project as well as links to relevant existing datasets
- Database of AWM adoption case studies detailing watershed-level impacts on livelihoods and land and water resources
- Maps indicating geographic domains for each technology, by agroecological zone and crop (as feasible) for sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
- A prototype spatial screening and investment tool for smallholder technologies
- GIS-referenced interactive database and mapping platform of gender in irrigation and crop control
- Maps of livelihood patterns for target countries
- Tables of potential environmental impacts of technologies (by production system and agroecology)
- Location-specific estimates of potential benefits and beneficiaries for target watersheds
- Participatory GIS guide to assess livelihood strategies adopted by communities in target watersheds