Josephine Tucker

j.tucker@odi.org.uk

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Josephine Tucker is a Research Fellow in ODI’s Water Policy Programme, working on pro-poor service delivery (urban and rural) and water for livelihoods, food security and climate change adaptation.

Her research areas of interest include:

local water security and resilience to climate variability and change
pro-poor design, targeting and delivery of water and sanitation services
adaptive water resources management

Josephine has extensive experience in East Africa, primarily Ethiopia. She has an academic background in ecology and geography and has worked at ODI for seven years.

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Rhetoric versus realities: a diagnosis of rainwater management development processes in the Blue Nile Basin of Ethiopia

Publication - Research reports and studies - 20 March 2013

E. Ludi, A. Belay, A. Duncan, K. Snyder, J. Tucker, B. Cullen, M. Belissa, T. Oljira, A. Teferi, Z. Nigussie, A. Deresse, M. Debela, Y. Chanie, D. Lule, D. Samuel, Z. Lema, A. Berhanu, D. J. Merrey

Ethiopia has invested extensively in rainwater management interventions, in particular soil and water conservation and afforestation, over the last 40 years, but often with disappointing impact. Given this limited success in natural resource conservation, a new approach is clearly needed, but what should it be? This report sets out some proposals.

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To achieve water security, we must see its human face

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 19 February 2013

‘I am telling you, I am torn between my work and water.’

‘I cannot save water for myself while knowing that my neighbour has no water. I should give it to my neighbour.’

‘I cannot transport water on my own. However I can rely on others who have donkeys.’

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Voices from the source: struggles with local water security in Ethiopia

Publication - Research reports and studies - 6 February 2013

Mengistu Dessalegn, Likimyelesh Nigussie, Wondwosen Michago, Josephine Tucker, Alan Nicol and Roger Calow

What are the physical, social, economic and political drivers of water insecurity in different locations in Ethiopia? How have different communities responded to situations of water stress? What should be the public policy and institutional priorities to improve resilience to water stress at a local level, and reduce the negative impacts on communities? This assessment explores local water security in two very different sites in rural Ethiopia – a pastoral district in the eastern Somali region (Shinile), and a somewhat remote agricultural district in the south (Konso).

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Vegetable farmer with his watering cans in Ghana

Groundwater resources in the Indo-Gangetic basin

Projects - February 2013 to May 2014

The Indo-Gangetic plains comprise of large floodplains of the Indus and Ganges-Brahmaputra river systems. They are home to approximately 1 billion people and encompass northern and eastern India, much of Bangladesh, parts of southern Nepal and the most populous parts of Pakistan.

The aim of this project is to improve understanding of how resilient groundwater resources in the Indo-Gangetic Basin are to changes in climate and abstraction and to provide a robust scientific base to help guide policy development for groundwater development and management.

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Achieving water security: lessons from research in water supply, sanitation and hygiene in Ethiopia

Publication - Books or book chapters - 2 January 2013

Edited by Roger Calow, Eva Ludi and Josephine Tucker

Achieving water security remains an elusive goal across swathes of sub-Saharan Africa. This book asks why, and draws on extensive field research and institutional analysis in Ethiopia to offer insights for policy and practice which are relevant across the continent.

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