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Collective action, corporate action: what works in water stewardship?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 9 September 2013

Natural resources, and their management, have seen a surge in corporate interest that seems unlikely to slacken. There has been a mushrooming of water initiatives involving the private sector under the banner of water stewardship, which claim to address shared risks through the combined effort of business, government and civil society.

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Rural water supply corruption in Ethiopia

Publication - Books or book chapters - 3 September 2013

Roger Calow, Alan MacDonald, Piers Cross

For decades, corruption in Ethiopia has been discussed only at the margins. Perhaps because many have not experienced corruption as a significant constraint to their lives and businesses, or perhaps because a culture of circumspection has dampened open dialogue, Ethiopia has seen neither the information flows nor the debate on corruption that most other countries have seen in recent years. This chapter 4 focuses on rural water supply corruption in 'Diagnosing corruption in Ethiopia : perceptions, realities, and the way forward for key sectors'.

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Literature review of property rights and development

Publication - Bibliography and literature reviews - 13 August 2013

Anna Locke, Giles Henley, Nathaniel Mason, Peter Newborne, Pilar Domingo, Michael Mattingly

This study aims to look at the state of evidence on the link between secure property rights and development, with an emphasis on recent evidence in African countries, and identify where there are significant gaps that need to be plugged by further research.

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A hidden crisis: strengthening the evidence-base on the sustainability of rural groundwater services

Projects - June 2013 to November 2013

This project aims to strenthen the evidence-base on ensuring the sustainability of rural groundwater services.

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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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Fresh water being poured into a jerrycan. Harshin district, in the eastern Somali region of Ethiopia

UN Economic Commission for Europe 4th workshop on adaptation to climate change in transboundary basins

Event - Workshop - 25 - 26 June 2013

This multi-stakeholder UN workshop explored adaptation to climate change in transboundary river basins around the world. Julian Doczi, Research Officer in ODI's Water Policy Programme, delivered a presentation introducing the concept of 'tools' for climate adaptation in the water sector, which then led into a morning 'marketplace' of tools for attendees to learn more about from the various organisations that designed them.

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Getting to scale in urban sanitation

Publication - Briefing papers - 1 May 2013

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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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What role for sanitation in water cooperation?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 22 March 2013

Today is World Water Day, in the International Year of Water Cooperation, so it seems appropriate to talk about water, right? Yet these terms, and many of the discussions you will read today, continue to omit one of the biggest factors for actually achieving clean and secure water for all: sanitation.

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The battle for water - access to water pays double dividends in conflict-affected states

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 22 March 2013

'There will always be places where water resources themselves are at the root of conflict and cooperation, but it’s often the human part - the way water, and sanitation, are delivered - which we need to address.'

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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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