1. Challenge Program for Water and Food
Coordination and Change Projects
Basin Leaders’ Perceptions
Amy Sullivan, FANRPAN
Amy Sullivan FANRPAN
Basin Leaders Meeting
Vientiane, 18 January 2011

2. Process
• Basin teams
Basin teams
• Discussion/document ideas
• Post—present—discuss
• Grouped into thematic areas
1. Leadership, coordination, integration,
2. Communication, networks, sharing
3. Impact

3. Leadership, Coordination, Integration
• Administration and logistics
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• Coordination
• Leadership
Leadership
• Liaison between MT and BDC projects
• Monitoring
Monitoring
• Quality assurance
• Ensure synergies, lessons learned, interactions
Ensure synergies lessons learned interactions
between BDC projects
• Work as catalyst to implement projects
Work as catalyst to implement projects

4. Leadership, Coordination, Integration
• Oversee, guide, facilitate adaptive management of BDC
projects
• Integration/bridging BDC projects
• Ensure BDC coherence
Ensure BDC coherence
• Facilitate
– Effective linkages with partners
– Linkages between BDC initiatives,
– Mutual learning, influence and policy formulation
– Innovative research on location specific problems within
Innovative research on location specific problems within
the basin
• Add value

5. Related Tasks
Related Tasks
• Continually refine the concept of our BDC
Continually refine the concept of our BDC
• Use the lessons to adapt BDC project planning
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Contribute to relevant TWGs
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6. Communication, Networks, Sharing
Communication, Networks, Sharing
• Networks and multi stakeholder platforms
Networks and multi‐stakeholder platforms
• Facilitate a relevant stakeholder network
• Face and voice of CPWF in the basin
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• Present the ‘basin story’
• Communications
• Engage project teams & stakeholders to
Engage project teams & stakeholders to
influence change

7. Communication, Networks, Sharing
Communication, Networks, Sharing
• Participate in regional debates and provide
Participate in regional debates and provide
dialogue across relevant stakeholder groups
• Document lessons
Document lessons
• Repository of information/results of BDCs
• Communicate results to stakeholders
• Articulate BDC project results with other basin
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needs
• Contribute to design of policy instruments
Contribute to design of policy instruments

8. Impact
• Maximize impact of BDC projects
Maximize impact of BDC projects
• Create impact & showcase BDC at proper
platforms with the right people and through
platforms with the right people and through
proper media
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Evaluate the process of change for up/out
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scaling