Why gender sensitive research requires a bottom-up approach that works directly with communities, rather than a top-down approach that fails to recognise the real-life consequences of entrenched gender norms.
This first-ever event of its kind in Pakistan aims to bring together academics, government officials, NGOs, and policy experts from home and abroad to discuss the problems affecting the country's water resources today.
A Water Pavilion side-event at COP26 will look at how advanced water management practices can improve water sustainability, increase land and water use efficiency, boost yields and even reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
A farm machine-hiring center in South India is showing how research-led interventions can result in saving time, cost and labor for dryland farmers while creating jobs for rurally-based youth.
The Smartstick, a breakthrough technology developed by WLE and IWMI, is a low-cost device that delivers real time water level and discharge measurements, to support water savings and productivity improvement at the farm level in Uzbekistan.
The success of the water users' association at Pyawt Ywar prompted Myanmar's Irrigation and Water Utilization Department to replicate it in other villages, and WLE/IWMI is translating the water user association handbook into Burmese to support these efforts.
Supported by WLE, CIAT and other partners, the online water planning platform Agua de Honduras is being scaled out in Central America, and extending further afield – to Ethiopia, Kenya and Rwanda.
The online toolkit is based on open access information and can be used by development banks and businesses to identify areas for solar-powered solutions.
Research IWMI and WLE showed an alternative approach, which combined with the application of the water-energy-food nexus concept, led to multiple benefits
To support their sustainable development agenda, the Ethiopian Government reviews the national water policy aiming for far-reaching reform, with the help of WLE/IWMI and prior research.
In this Op-Ed on CNBC Africa, WLE Program Director Stefan Uhlenbrook forewarns why world needs to be proactive about risks to and from water to mitigate threats to food system everywhere.
