Logical Framework

Goal:
Improved management of water and land resources for food, livelihoods and nature.

Intermediate Goal
Bridge the gaps between irrigation, health and the environmental sectors. Scientific document of the relationships between irrigation water management, health and the environment in an integrated manner. Focus will be on practical solutions to quantify and manage irrigation and drainage flows that can sustain ecosystems whilst obtaining optimum agricultural production. A related objective is to raise awareness and work toward the incorporation of health safeguards in water resources management and planning in rural and urban areas.

Purpose
1. Empirical and secondary information based research on specific aspects of the water and health conundrum.

2. Empirical and secondary information based research on specific aspects of water and environment within the context of the interactions and competition for resources between agricultural and environmental uses. Major focus on:

Outputs
Health:
Ways to control mosquito-borne disease transmission through water management.

Measures to reduce schistosomiasis linked to dams and irrigation.

Guidelines to reduce waterborne and water-washed diseases in irrigated areas.

Tools to analyze health linkages between irrigation and domestic water supplies.

Methodologies to assess health impacts of reuse of wastewater for agriculture.

Analysis of linkages between health and poverty in all of the above activities.

Environment:
Tools to assess water requirements of ecosystems/wetlands.

Guidelines to increase the productivity of water in ecosystems.

Methods to evaluate environmental impacts of agricultural water use.

Principles and operational guidelines for water allocations in river basins.

Tools for valuing ecological goods and services.

Achievements in 2000
· IWMI established itself as the leading institute in the field of water management for disease-vector control. A large number of papers were published in international scientific journals and IWMI staff was regularly invited by the World Health Organization and others to provide inputs to conferences and missions to malaria endemic countries. IWMI has taken up the challenge of developing a new major systemwide initiative on malaria and agriculture as requested by the Centers Directors Committee at ICW in October 2000.

In 2000, IWMI has claimed a more prominent role in the environmental sector by actively participating in several international initiatives such as the UNESCO HELP program, becoming a member of the IUCN, and organizing the 'Dialogue on Water for Food and Environmental Security.'

Milestones
2001
1. Risk map for malaria in Sri Lanka completed.
2. Research on the relation between waterlogging and malaria in Pakistan completed.
3. New research projects on use of wastewater for irrigation started in Pakistan and Vietnam.
4. Available datasets on water flows, water quality, flora, fauna, and resource use of the Kirindi Oya Irrigation Scheme and wetlands of the Bundala National Park analyzed and disseminated at a major stakeholder workshop organized together with other stakeholders.
5. Tested methodologies and general guidelines for the assessment of the use of irrigation water for domestic purposes.
6. Official establishment of a systemwide initiative on malaria and agriculture.

2002:
1. Guidelines for vector control in irrigated areas for use by irrigation managers and farmers completed.
2. Technical and institutional guidelines available for improving water supply and sanitation in irrigated areas.
3. Completed the predevelopment biodiversity assessment of the Uda Walawe irrigation project extension.

2003:
1. Tested methodologies for an agro-ecosystem approach to human health in Sri Lanka.
2. Impacts of water-saving irrigation methods on human health documented.
3. Interactions between malaria and agricultural production systems are scientifically documented.

2004:
1. Completed a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis of wastewater irrigation, including the environmental and health costs and benefits.
2. Completed a post-development biodiversity assessment of the Uda Walawe irrigation project extension area.
3. Methods and tools are available to maximize health opportunities in agriculture development and minimize or mitigate negative health impacts.

Gains
Reduced negative health and environmental impacts of irrigated agriculture through alternative irrigation design and management. ·

Improved assessment of the economic value of land, water and environmental resources.

Users
Government planners and agencies concerned with policies and practices for irrigation and the use of water resources; irrigation, health and environmental authorities; water user associations and related civil society organizations.

Collaborators
University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka; Institute of Public Health, Lahore; McGill University Brace Center for Water Resources Management; Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen; Department of International Health, University of Copenhagen; Mahaweli Authority, Sri Lanka; University of East Anglia; Center of Excellence in Water Resources, Lahore; Faisalabad Agricultural University, Pakistan; Technical University Hamburg-Harburg; Vietnam Institute for Water Resources Management; National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi; DHI-Water & Environment, Denmark; Anti-Malaria Campaign, Sri Lanka; International Center for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE); WHO (Panel of Experts on Environmental Management and Vector Control-PEEM); University of Nairobi; Division of Vector-Borne Disease, Ministry of Health, Kenya; Kenya Medical Research Institute; National Irrigation Board, Kenya; IUCN Sri Lanka; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; MSF-HealthNet International, Peshawar; Department of Wildlife Conservation, Sri Lanka; University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka; Center for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), UK; Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam; CARE; Catholic Relief Service-CRS; Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II, Morocco; Ministry of Health, Morocco; University of Zimbabwe.