Josephine Tucker

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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East Africa Food crisis - Water point in Ethiopia

GroFutures: groundwater futures in sub-Saharan Africa

Projects - June 2013 to October 2013

This project, led by the GroFutures team, will develop the evidence base and methodologies to enable the identification of future hotspots of groundwater depletion where demand may exceed available resources. Pilot studies will be conducted in Ethiopia, Ghana and Tanzania.

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Getting to scale in urban water supply

Publication - Briefing papers - 31 May 2013

Josephine Tucker and Nathaniel Mason

This brief offers lessons for scale-up deriving from Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor's 2008-2012 programme in Maputo (Mozambique) and Antananarivo (Madagascar).

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Getting to scale in urban sanitation

Publication - Briefing papers - 1 May 2013

Josephine Tucker and Nathaniel Mason

This briefing offers lessons for scale-up deriving from Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor's 2008-2012 programme in Maputo (Mozambique) and Antananarivo (Madagascar).

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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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