Report on Ganges BDC Reflection Workshop

1st & 2nd April, 2012

Coordination and Change Enabling Project 5 Ganges Basin Development Challenge

Introduction
A two days Reflection event of Ganges Basin Development Challenge Program was held on April 1 and 2, 2012 at Hotel Lake Castle, Gulsan 2, Dhaka. Mr. William J. Collis, Director The WorldFish Center, Bangladesh & South Asia Office, started the workshop activities with his speech. He mentioned this is a global research program with an integrated approach to issue CGIAR of local expertise for a comprehensive effect. The CGIAR works in lined with the host Governments. The goal of the Ganges Basin Development Challenge is to initiate a real effort with the Governments efforts. This time work is being done at the delta, i.e. the polders of Bangladesh. Lessons learnt here could be used at other places. By looking at issues of Bangladesh, CGIAR can deal with issues those are beyond Bangladesh Government. The government has to make decisions in terms of agriculture. The outcome of this project is going to shape the future of the delta area. After Bill Collis speech, Dr Boru Douthwaite states that, this is a global event and part of what Ganges basin projects are going to do. A group like this, which includes 11 Bangladeshi organizations, 2 Indian organizations and 2 universities, is required to monitor issues like salinity. This is what is going to take the program forward and go beyond the second phase. Equity could be achieved by creative management. This could be used by global program to guide CGIARs global communications. CGIAR would be wholesale of CPWF, i.e. a programmatic approach to research and development of CGIAR research programs. As part of that integration, there would be a funding cut to all six basin development challenges, 21% budget cut starting from June. This is aimed to push forward efficiency On the basis of William J. Collis and Dr. Borus speech there was a discussion with the workshop participants. Discussion Question was asked by T P Tuong, Consultant, G1 demanding clarity in reason for cut. CRP 5 wants to move up but the cut is across all other projects not only the Ganges. Boru Douthwaite (gives the big picture in response to T. P. Tuong) CPWF is going to go into CRP 5. None of the CRPs has got the full budget they asked for. CRP 5 has only got 77% of what it asked for. This is a relatively low budget. Now how do we manage this with least harm? Solution: Ganges could be picked up by CRP 1.3. The decision was then reversed. William J. Collis

CRP 5 is not focusing on things we are doing here. We want to talk individually on how to continue with good results with the new budget constraint. Future funding is very possible.

Workshop Presentation
After the discussion, all Gs (G1 to G5) did their presentation one by one. Individual project presentation starts with G1. From G1, presentation was done by T P Toung, Consultant, The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). Project G1 is about resource profiles, extrapolation domains and land use patterns. G1 has completed latest liaison with BWDB. Introduction of BWDB representatives, identified as most important. In their presentation they have shown and discussed with expected output and their achievements of last year. Expected output: 1. Geo database with all thematic conclusions including socioeconomics. 2. Two scales: focus and coastal zone. This would be used to change the behavior of our agents, NGOs, GOs and extension agents. Scale up technology. 3. Data map. 4. Land use plan based on all of those. Involve local organizations. Hopefully they (GOs) will use our things in their regional planning. Ganges (G1) achievements of last year: G1 met a seasonal rise in Boro, Aush and Aman rice cropping patterns in Bangladesh. Aush created lot of noise at IRRI through the first map of Aush. This info would be useful for planning purpose. Study sites geo-referenced. Mouja maps are smallest geo unit census data. LGED digitized all the Mouja maps for the three polders. Data is important for socioeconomic survey in these polders. With this Mouja boundary Ganges can geo-locate all those household survey data. Results of salinity level monitoring: Shipsa river is with higher salinity in June. Salinity in Bangladesh is seasonal. Upstream of seawater has an effect on salinity. Salinity drops to 1 ppt during monsoon water flow. This can be used for irrigation. Further, downstream salinity is higher compared to upstream from June to March. From July its below 1 ppt. in mid-February it increases to 2 ppt. We understand after February we cannot flush into the river water. Monitoring of salinity data have been done under project of IWM. There are rainfall and exasperation stations. SRDI outputs: Four salinity stations have been established. Establish difference between soil salinity and water salinity. Figure: from 2001 to 2009, soil salinity is thick within March and May. Relate this with rainfall. During monsoon, soil salinity drops. Soil texture map: finds crop suitability. 65 monitoring stations and surveys helped prepare this map.
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There are 2009 and 2012 maps on the way. After G1 presentation, there was an Interactive session was held among the participants. Md. Sarafat Hossain Khan, BWDB Arsenic contamination is an important issue. You have some data but you should have methodological data as well. Zahir Khan We have BWDB monitoring stations. Assessments are done and seen how much is it affecting. We can have this issue in our program. Arsenic contamination has been far away from the coastal zone. Its a very crucial issue. But it is found in deep water not in shallow water. Not within our domain. Suggestion: hydrological polder. T P Tuong This project is tiny in respect of money. Had it not being partners, it would not be possible. If our partners supply us with Ganges Water assessment only then we can do it. Meta data is a description of what you have. So we would have to see what is available. For arsenic we would take this into account in next session. AHM Kausher, IWM BWDB has ongoing climate change projects. 614 tube well were installed. IWM is involved with this. There would be sufficient data on that. At the end of interactive session, Dr. Boru Douthwaite mentioned that it is Good to see G1 and G4 working together. After G1 presentation and interactive session, G2 project leader Liz Humphreys, The International Rice Research Institute did G2 presentation. One by one she presented G2 activities and its updates, achievements, opportunities and their plan. Activities: 1. Develop and finalize contracts with partners: identified contractual partners, IRRI and WFC with FUTURE, developed cooperation with some science and technology universities. 2. Recruitment: we have lots of people 3. Field trips: three major field trips in past twelve months and many smaller field trips. Outputs: site selection for experiments which would give us better understanding. We see salinity productivity. This is great for increasing collaboration, to get people from all the Gs. 4. Participation in IFWF3: six representatives from G2 participated in the forum. Cross project learning and team building. 5. Research: developments of detailed research plans, implementation and monitoring

terms, simple plans for distribution etc. Aman variety has improved, despite water stagnation and seedbed submergence on 43/2F. In polder 3 we did Aman evaluation for rice agriculture. There were two ghers one had poor drainage the other had good drainage. See the difference. Much younger seedlings could not handle the salinity and depth. Hence it can be said farmer water management has a huge influence on salinity for Aman rice. There are tradeoffs between what is good for rice and what is good for fish. Good news 1: several varieties performed very well. At both salinity levels using old seedlings, some did not. Good news 2: we got much poorer crops when we planted much younger seedlings at deeper water levels. Boro variety trials are in progress in India in polders 30, 43. pumping ground water. Issues and how we deal with them: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Funding uncertainty: According to budget GBDC Lack of GBDC advisory committee Unrealistic start date: we needed 6 months or so to gear up Lack of funds Inability to impellent effective early drainage system. This could be improved by shifting to polder 43. Problem in India is with

Opportunity: 1. CPWF innovation grant 2. CIBA and CSSBI to collaborate. 3. Coordination to water depth Plans: 1. Build on to what we have started. 2. Implement community watershed management activity. 3. Maps for many things. Jahangir Alam, BSMRAU Brackish order aquaculture is with Bagda and Golda only. 75% of Shrimp culture area is in Khulna. Over 80s and 90s there was considerable conflict among farmers. When the owners occupation changed, they started to culture shrimp in their own lands hence conflict got much reduced. 80% farms are operated by their owners now with average size 9.5 hectare. Causes of low production: 1. 75% traditional extensive, 24% improved extensive. 1% semi intensive.
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2. Poor land use system due to siltation and presence of organic materials. 3. Faulty management such as poor water quality management, poor health management. Opportunities: 1. 67% areas under shrimp farming with salinity in coastal area being suitable for shrimp. Now it is done in rotation with rice culture. 2. Improved rice Aman shrimp system 3. Dry season is good. It is better not to go for more than two. It is possible to get 550kg/hectare. Nearly 7 varieties of rice at about 4 to 5 ton/hectare 4. Economic benefit for rice prawn. 5. Technology is there. 2000 ??are suitable for semi intensive shrimp culture. 6. Modified closed system: stocking density 9-15 gm. yield rate of 1250-1885 kg with FCR. 7. Opportunity for rice: HYVs are available, in addition to local varieties. 8. Species diversification: shrimp tilapia, shrimp mud crab, shrimp pangas Kazi Kabir, WorldFish Center Homestead: to describe the homestead farming system and to understand current system, Polder 30 and 40?? has been considered. Three unions were surveyed, based on low lands and highlands. Areas lower than 3m were considered to be lowlands and areas greater than 3m were considered to be highlands. Deadlines: Analysis is to be done by 30 April, respondent questionnaire by 31 May and draft by 30 June. Interactive session on the G2 presentation was held and lot of discussion done by the participants. Sarafat Hossain, BWDB Nice presentation on economic analysis. I think social issue has been ignored here. That should be reflected. Traditionally when BWDB started this polderation, main issue was shrimp development. Most shrimp farmers targeted in an unplanned way. Even in last Aila they had damages in a great scale. This issue should be reflected in report. We should also include polders in sub-polders. There is a great impact in landless farmers while converting from the agro to shrimp farmers. Jahangir Alam In the review of Bangladesh, we have lot of data on social impact of shrimp culture. They say shrimp culture has positive impact but should be done in a structured way. So these are prone to policies at government level. I say shrimp culture and rice are not complacent.
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They could be done if done in the right way. Nature has given the opportunity. Salinity is increasing but shrimp is only fraction of the reason. Unplanned shrimp culture tends to hold up saline water and is not flushed. 60 % and more shrimp culture ghers are in lands suitable for rice culture. Aditi Mukherji, IWMI Shrimp culture is economically attractive. But one has to find why it is more attractive for. Drinking water sources get affected due to salinity of unplanned shrimp gher. Planning is needed but it might not work in south Asian countries where generally first hand planning does not work. T P Tuong I agree with review. Lots of emphasis is on economy but not on environment. It would be nice and balanced if both were there. It is important to realize when the ponds are returned to their own operator, there has been improvement. It depends on whole social structure like who owns, who farms etc. Aditi Mukherji To what Tuong said, these South Asian countries are not easy where there would be rules etc. Our government aspirations are much higher than implementation ability. Government might have rules but when you go to the field, the implementation army is totally absent. To say everything is in the hands of water board is a very simplistic diagnosis. First hand planning should be land zone planning. After G2 interactive session Dr. Aditi Mukherji, IWMI, Project Leader of G3 did their presentation and talked about the issue of water governance and community based management. This is about how to make people cooperate. This is about physical resource base. This is about institutions and community characteristics and roles. The aim is to improve change policies in institutions. After our time we want to implement these in institutions. Question is if community is the best way to manage a polder? If it is the way forward? What are the constraints? How to ease if not remove? Gender is an important component of G3. Official perspective in water management: Visiting different bodies, transcribe these notes. As per as community perspective is concerned the aim is that everybody agrees. In Bangladesh there is internalization of need for communities but not in India. We are looking at the transition how peoples participation changed over time. 1960s, 70s: small scale engineering structure. From 80s onwards we are seeing more involvement of

communities. After Aditis presentation an interactive session was held on G3 presentation. Liz Humphreys So many interviews, how did you sort out qualitative data? Aditi Mukherji There are structured processes. Same questions were asked to different people so it helped to keep track. Software called Atlas TI which makes the coding mode easy. Zahir Khan Have you found any success story in Bangladesh? Aditi Mukherji Yes. Polder 22, which is not ours but it is kind of successful. Polder 30 was a bit like IPSWAM too. Let us not fall into the trap of comparing LGED and BWDB. Sarafat Hossain What is reason of decline? Aditi Mukherji In one word let us talk maintenance, mismanagement. The government did not have money to maintain so wanted community get involved because it was at their interest. We need to get more result for Bangladesh. I am less confident about local conditions. For global one I am confident. Donors are evaluated by the amount of money they push. But maintenance is only about 5% of total. The owners say I have rehabilitated now government should do rest. Zaminder did manage before, water board did after that. Communities know if canals are silted, they still have alternative ways of getting water by pumps etc. they can get by without maintaining. Sarafat Hossain Main issue is vision. Our vision is water resource management in addition to agricultural development. We are only involving the farmers and others are not getting involved, so there is conflict. Another reason is shortage of money. We make some service charge. You should involve all the steps not only paddy culture. That is another challenge. Hence there is less confidence. These are not income generating people. They need lots of things and so they think why I should bother. AHM Kawsher After ten years what will happen is a major concern. Stakeholders should get training for their own improvement.

Zahir Khan We observed that, along an ongoing project that community participation is well but after end of the project it is there no more. How to continue in long time? Aditi Mukherji I see a tremendous scope of learning. We would find a solution in 3 years which was not there for 30 years, based on our learning. Mike Phillips, WFC It is poor management vs. better management. Studies of agro management show that if institutions are managed then economic benefit is substantial. Improved things generate bigger results. Sarafat Hossain You have done some good initiative. You also should get some message from this. IPSWAM is the last stage. Water board polder is big and difficult. Now while lesson learnt, you can actually command it, about what system could be successful, sustainable in future, like overdriven projects, initiatives etc. Aditi Mukherji Give us a little time. T P Tuong There is this thing, project syndrome. If project stops everything stops. How can we make maintenance in mainstream activity of government and community? Get rid from donor driven project base and continue. Sarafat Hossain: In IWM there is review system. For last 6 - 7 years we have had maintenance budget of 6 crore taka. It is less but is going to increase. T P Tuong Role of polder has changed so much in last 50 yrs. The purpose is to close everything in dry season. Now they would have to take water. Secondly they have no internal cannel. The role of polder has changed but the design of the polder has not. The role of the polders should be production oriented. Sarafat Hossain Channel I is consulting famers about how to use government policies. Processes are workable at bottom level. If the rural area keeps beating their drum we want this we want this then something indeed might happen. Government is there for them. Camelia NGOs participation. KGRP saw the communities try to influence NGOS to change their policies through Community Participation Andolon. If they did not like something, they
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would send representatives to that government representative. After G3 interactive session Zahirul Haque Khan, IWM Project Leader of G4 did their Presentation Key Messages: G4 works on the assessment of the impact of anticipated external drivers of change on water resources of the coastal zone. Zahir talks about revised OLM, outputs and impacts. Demand from other Gs to share their data. Most of the polders in Shatkhira and Khulna have some drainage conditions. How to see through the future. The effect of external drivers. After Zahirs presentation, Farhana Akhter Kamal from Institute of Water Modeling presented some slides on salinity measurement of different rivers of polder number 3, 30 & 43/2F. Polder 3 Ichamoti river, salinity is 2ppt in early June and drops to 1 in monsoon. This period we have fresh water in this river. People want to have high salinity in ghers and salinity is 6. In Shonnashir Char, the water is less saline. There are agricultural lands. In polder 30, the salinity is higher in June and gets down in mid-July and is fresh till mid-December and then goes up again. In polder 30, the water logging is very common problem. Blocking for aqua culture is causing water logging. Sever drainage condition in Gangarampur. In Polder 42/3 A, the salinity is very low at .1-.2 ppt until mid of March. So this water can be flushed for irrigation purpose. In folder 43/2F, inadequate water flow is observed, because of lack of structure. So a developed structure can ensure flush of irrigation. From literature review, interaction with other G4 partners, global drivers, we selected a preliminary list of external drivers. We circulated this to experts and researchers and asked them to rank the drivers. We arranged FGD with fishermen, farmers etc. and got another set of external drivers. We have a tribulation workshop and from there we have the external drivers and there rank. All the groups ranked Trans boundary flow as the no 1 external driver. After Farhanas presentation, AKM Saiful Islam, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology did his presentation to share the climate change in polder number 3, 30 & 43/2F. Climate change is ranked number 5! Projection for polder 3: Relative humidity of 27% can be explained. Maximum temp 1.34 c. we do not have very big
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confidence during monsoon. But pre and post monsoon is eligible. Projection for polder 30: For A1b, monsoon will shift. A2 scenario will increase overall. A1b increase overall but precipitation year delayed about one month. Projection for polder 43/2F Amtoli, Barguna: A2 precipitation will increase in monsoon and consecutive wet days could be observed in December. A12 in December in monsoon and pre monsoon. Next challenge for G4 is to find some potential scenario. After all three presentations done by G4 team an Interactive session on G4 presentation was held. Liz Humphreys Land use change is a change, it is not a driver. T P Tuong Driver of the hydrological model Masud Ahmed, BWDB Appropriate wording is needed; it is not the change of flow, why dont you say increase of flow. Zahir Khan It is now 51??; it could be 61?? who knows, by negotiation. Why we are going to say that it is going to increase? It may increase or remain same. If any policy maker asks me how can you say it will increase? Then I should say it might be increasing. Masud Ahmed Climate change issue is on practice. Prime Minister has requested government of Netherlands for an alliance in Delta Plan workshop. But now you have list of partners. You should include CGIS also. Zahir Khan I am also on that project. One of the factors is climate change. When we say scenario, there is no rank. That scenario would have some impact. I did not see involvement of CGIS beneficial for us. The lead concern is Volkare (Dutch). Partners are CGIS and IWM. Saiful Islam We provide them with advice and service. It is important to incorporate different stakeholders of Delta Plan in this. It is a very good suggestion. Liz Humphreys Are you going to simulate the impact of population growth?
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Zahir Khan Population growth is one driver. Increase would lead to use of water. We have models to assess the impact of population growth. Liz Humphreys Im impressed with all I have seen today. At the workshop in May, I had a comment there, I remember you (Zahir) said our work can be useful now I see you and Tuong working together. I think that is a story that should be highlighted sometime. T P Tuong I would like to thank G4 group. They are very ambitious. At the end if you can deliver, I am going take all my cloth off to show how much am I pleased. We should discuss about general methodology to assess the impact of all the drivers in the hydrology. I have not heard a very good methodology. What are the boundary conditions? What are they? What you do with them? How does swat help evolving this? You might also have more tools if you have different climate changes then swat. Zahir We have medium say up to herding bridge. It is the output of my 11 page input. Also potential based on drivers. Some can be derived from G1. Swat from upstream. T P Tuong Excellent opportunity. But G1, G2 and all the other Gs will not be able to do this. I would call on BWDB to come forward, if you have projects on the polders do it with us. Liz Humphreys What about improvement of drainage management? Saiful Islam In some cases the water usage are conflicting. Farmers need fresh water, shrimp producers need saline water. Sarafat Hossain You showed some cannel. There some bleaching has occurred after so many cyclones. We closed so many carts. So BWDB is now visiting total management system improvement. We are going to study, then implement. We logically move towards 130 polders. That is out mission and these plans would help us achieve that. All polders would be taken care of. After G4 presentation and interactive session the first day workshop activities has ended up with thanks by Boru Douthwaite The 2nd day session has started with the presentation by Kevin T. Kamp, Deputy Regional Director, WorldFish Center on CRP 1.3 CRP 1.3, Agro Aquatic program is about working together as a whole team. It has potential
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specifically for the poor and vulnerable. One bad thing is the real level of poverty. How can we break this cycle and reduce poverty in a real way? We can do this by working together. The farmers have their research. We need to take that research to build research capacity of farmers. And aid farmers in their own research for some of their own problems. This is about moving from the hands of the researcher in the hands of farmer. Gender transformative: Some programs in the past dealt with Womens role outside home and beyond. What is the impact of these researches specifically to women? This is about improving womens accessibility to productivity and resources. CRP in Bangladesh: Eight hubs defined in other programs. We would like to start with the southern hubs. We talk about Khulna and got to widen that out a little and include a larger salinity affected area. We are going to work on crops and fish. Management of local water resource: This is the key to move this program forward. What we would like to do is to begin to create communities of farmer researchers. We got to work better to engage our researchers in Bangladesh to work close with these communities and build relations Culture of learning: We are not driving research or agenda. We are working for people who are moving with research and agenda and seek help of us. We want women to participate in this research. We want women to raise their voice in decision making in policy levels. We should take the strength on this room on field level to move forward. An interactive session was held after Kevins presentation. Aditi Mukherji We are looking not at internal public good as CGIAR. How is our mandate different from the NARS? CGIAR by definition` looks international. NARS is local. Is our mandates are overlapping? Kevin Kamp No, different mandate. It is like how we can support NARS internationally. All these should be focused on local agendas to address local problems. Boru Douthwaite As AAS program representative, CPWF is responsible for this group. We are beginning to see the benefits of working together, as a program, as a team. Partnerships we building and
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benefits are coming. We want to grow that. We need space to do that. So we need a strategy to go forward. From 1.3 perspectives, there is lot of difference that 1.3 claim. There are differences in terms of space, for this work to go forward, then 1.3 in my point of view, a great opportunity. Hence I joined 1.3 to take forward what the CPWF is trying to do. That endorses what Kevin is asking on us. Response to Aditi is part of our global learning would be about R&D. how we develop partnerships to reach people, whom we have not been able to reach with conventional approach etc. Liz Humphreys We do need a process about who is going to talk to who about migrating to the GANGES BDC. For the risk program of GBDC, it would be helpful to have a timetable about who is going to talk to who and when. T P Tuong Im sure AAS has a structure and a team, we also have ours. What is the process of two teams to work together? Kevin Kamp You do have a coherent team. I would like to discuss with some of you for the rest of the data. I do not want to build a whole new team. But how are we going to cohere and do we need some others? Aditi Mukherji Which teams are there in 1.3? Kevin Kamp BWDB, IMWI, WFC. We need more CG partners in this room. George Pamela, WFC Contractually what is going to happen is dependable with funding flows. If contracts are with IMWI, then you will be contracted by WFC. CRP is also fundraising as the current CPWF, bilateral funding. Not being funded by councils. This is structured, we are going to bring from lobby donors. Kevin WFC has many programs in Bangladesh and we are looking at how it would contribute to ours. Liz Keep the name of CPWF to GBDC program. Dont think there would be problems to distinguish. Kevin We need to discuss it more. There are a lot of things involved in that. It has a track record. It
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eeds adjustment. After presentation and interactive session on CRP 1.3, each G presented their early results in the polders. After sharing G2 result by Liz Humphreys a discussion session was held. Boru Douthwaite A very useful list of messages here (LIZs) would you be happy if G5 uses the green ones? Liz Humphreys The G5 would not deliver unless some of the other ones are done. The activities may be dependent on other ones or maybe not. I need to check. Boru Douthwaite The purple one may be pointed to gaps. They need further work. Liz Humphreys The yellows ones too. Boru Douthwaite Do we all agree? T P Tuong Perhaps later on you can separate. Liz Humphreys Yes. George Pamela When you ask the farmers would you want to shift away from paddy, they believe it would take 5 years to get reasonable yield. They do not want a shift because they believe not profitable. Moreover, there is drainage issue with lots of these canals, difficult to manage. Zahir Khan From July to December, there is low salinity in polder 3. So it can be Aman in 1 year leaching effect is 20%. After one year of monsoon water, it has leeched out 100%. Boru Douthwaite We can bring salinity down through drainage. As same G2, Zahir Khan, project leader, G4 shared their result and participated in discussion session. Moniruzzaman, Shushilon There are about 90 canals; some are excavated but only 2ft instead of 4ft due to structures

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of sluice gates. They are not properly flushing the adequate waters for irrigation. Zahir Khan G4 and G3 need to work together. G2 is already there. Liz Humphreys The most important thing is to bring together these partners. Mike Philips Do we have some indicators? We are talking about trade off etc. at some stage we got to be quantitative and find indicator. Aditi Mukherji, G3 project leader shared their result and participated the discussion session. Kevin Kamp How conflicts are resolved? Do you have a conflict resolution plan? Aditi Mukherji We should be able to. Questionnaire has been designed with related questions. Moniruzzaman, Shushilon In our survey, there were points on what the conflicts are, how they are being resolved, what they suggest to manage and mitigate conflicts etc. It was found that some do not even agree there are conflicts. Informal institutions and UP plays main role in resolving. T P Tuong When you discuss with farmers about conflicts mostly they discuss present. G3 is forward looking. Our vision is three crops a year. Is there any way how we are going to prepare them? How do you see that in future? The way we design questionnaire, can we make it forward looking? Aditi Mukherji There were questions like if things remain as usual what do you see in your polder in next 10 years? If things improve then what and what is important to you? T P Tuong Huge potential for polder 43/2 F. Can we build the question after having the knowledge? Like if you grow Boro and Aman how do you improve to manage to cope with that? Aditi Mukherji Good. Wherever we do not have done the fieldwork we can include these questions. Camelia Dewan, IWMI In lots of areas, where women do not have intensive they are passive. Some might want to

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join an upper position which is their incentive. Parvesh Kumar, IRRI Dont you think water itself is intensive? Aditi Mukherji There are other ways to get water. At least in the short term no cooperation is needed on that regard. I think there can be mental incentive also. End of G3s result sharing, T P Tuong, principal scientist, IRRI shared the result of G1 and discussed on it. T P Tuong In the coastal zone 20% is homestead. That is big. That means productive land is higher. I believe developing homestead economy will improve livelihood. Develop tenants. I think our BDC has a component homestead. As for drivers; I hope that G3 can build some questions to see if farmers are aware of those drivers. Public awareness is important in climate change management. As for drinking water, we do not do it in our BDC. But we got to think of it for the future. Camelia Dewan Shushilon had a checklist about how do u see this polder changing in ten years? That talked about climate change. They talked about dams, water harassment. So you know they are aware and we are also developing it. Aditi Mukherji We can share our checklist and we can discuss missing issues. Parvesh Kumar Whether we are going to include groundwater or not? Does not matter how we do but we got to do. AKM Kausher Arsenic contamination. People are drinking pond water. Nowsher Sarder We have a vast project on homestead. Huge data is available. T P Tuong Kabir and Karim are reviewing literature. Get information from Nowsher. Parvesh Kumar Flushing is nothing new. Nothing has been discussed about all four of us taking a small area and working on that. How to manage that? If we four are together only then that can
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happen. Separate target domains are not going to work unless we four show a demonstration. Boru Douthwaite I understand that. What you suggested is what G2 got started; to put ideas into practice. But to do it as a proper integrated approach. That would be the vision for 1.3. That is what AAS has to offer. 1.3 is about anything. It is about action research. After the result sharing by G1-G4, Dr. Nowsher Ali Sarder, Basin Leader did G5 presentation. Distribution is another problem as well as land tenure policy. Share cropping or leasing has to be thought about as well. There is free water during tide. In North Bengal 25% the owner is getting. We got to think about sharing. There is more water due to sea level rice. The variety trial produced 3 ton. Hence if we want 5 we should shift to Boro. Salma Sultana, World Fish Centre Salma Sultana, Communication Coordinator did presentation of Ganges Information & Communication strategy discussed about the audiences, messages, interventions and implementation plan. She talked about capacity building: Contract consultants. Develop own communication timeline for start to end i.e. from project launch to when would results be ready. It is a documented process. Timeline frame has been developed by Peter Valentine; Project leader of Nile basin. Afrina Choudhury, World Fish Centre Afrina Choudhury, Gender specialist, WorldFish did the presentation on Gender mainstreaming in Ganges BDC. She explained how to mainstream gender in the projects? Training BNPS batches. Two days 30 participants. Emdad Hossain, World Fish Centre Emdad Hossain, M&E Specialist, G5 did presentation on Monitoring and evaluation strategy. All the Gs are in outcome phase. So it is essential to see we are in track or not. That answer would be coming from M&E to ensure right time right direction. We need to think about the budget. Which activity or milestone we need to revise. Budget line is one of the most important indicators now to monitor project. After G5 team presentation, an interactive session was held on G5 presentation. Aditi Mukherji Our policies are different. We do not think G3 should be doing land tenure policies. I take strong exception on doing crop information when half of the FGDs are done. Boru Douthwaite We should not get into lack of understanding. G5 needs to understand what G3 does. Aditi Mukherji
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Point taken. Sarafat Hossain For the external communication I think you should put stakeholder because there are other communities. Mostly in our country we have mobile network so that should be there as well. For the training slide, I think if you train people rather they can train. Salma Sultana, WFC Details are provided in our draft. We are taking G2s support for farmer cross visit. We are doing process documentation. Wiki etc. I am doing on behalf of Ganges. Other Gs can give me all documents then I can keep them in our wiki website. As for Bangla document, we are planning for newsletters. We have developed TVC and are planning to develop another one. This is a good suggestion. G3, G4 can give me there videos so that I can put it on YouTube etc. T P Tuong I think you should have a matrix. An agent; platform to deliver message. Salma Sultana I have shared matrix. T P Tuong The capacity building is important. The need of training should be cleared. Thirdly the communication document is not inspiring. Ii is too long. Who is it for internal or external? If internal then it is too long. The messages are too global. We are looking at downstream end and coastal zone. Focus on coastal zone. Give punch and focus on what we are doing here. Sharpen. Boru Douthwaite Nice discussion. Liz Humphreys As for the policies of this afternoon it is not bilateral unless we see issues. It is Best to discuss in the bilateral meeting. Camelia Dewan Thanks for the presentation. Shushilon has met with all UNOs etc. people are anticipate that we should come back and share. We have list of participants for your use. How are other Gs going to give information to you? From G3s perspective of training, we are done. Parvesh Kumar How do you plan to incorporate gender layer in land wise? Censes data at Mouja level show women participation in agro, is any of the Gs thinking about how to collect this data?

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Boru Douthwaite We need more bilateral discussion. Aditi Mukherji We are interviewing female members from IMCA, female households, LCS groups, farmers. That is how we can bring gender perspective. Parvesh Kumar Do we have geo-reference data on that? Moniruzzaman At polder level; the village via which we conducted. Parvesh Will that be useful when we are targeting within polder? Moniruzzaman Not full polder. Our FGDs were related to particulars, Liz Humphreys There will be something which you can include in your data Parvesh. Gender disaggregated information, innovations particularly good for women. Where do we hold training? Asses what are the needs, who they are etc. Afrina Choudhury That is part of the training plan. It would be in Barisal and Khulna because we want to do it in field. Boru Douthwaite Emdad has renegotiated all his OT. T P Tuong (on the composite) Incentive is an output. This is a new column to me. Usually we have output then target. It is unclear because it is under output. It has an arrow pointing to something. I do not know the logic for this. Emdad Hossain This column will help to do activities through the actors. T P Tuong Thanks for clarification. Boru Douthwaite It is basically, we took original OLM. They were too big to communicate. We stripped them to simple ones. Emdad has taken those stripped and combined them such that it makes sense, hence you to tell us if it makes sense. The outcome targets of 2014 are not very impressive. Idea is if it would be useful for Ganges
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BDC to have it like his. What you might like to achieve in 2018 and what might be the key assumptions and risks. Closing speech by Kevin Kamp Thanks so much for attending. We are trying to find ways to move along at best as we can. It has been a very successful workshop. I want to thank everyone. They have spent lots of time for being here. We cannot do this program without the government units as partners.

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Workshop Schedule Sunday 1 April Session 1 0830 1000 Monday 2 April

Opening welcome (Bill) GBDC 5 - Reflection on outputs and introductions, CPWF updates progress to date. How this links with (Boru) reality. Plans for the future and what this means for adjustments to OLMs Reflection on progress to date and impact pathways. (Nowsher and objectives of the with: workshop (Nowsher) Communications (Salma) M&E (Emdad) CGIAR Advisory Committee (Nowsher) Topic Working Groups (Boru) Gender issues (Afrina)

COFFEE 1000-1030 Session 2 1030 to 1110 GBDC 1 Reflection on outputs and progress to date. How this links with reality. Plans for the future and what this means for adjustments to OLMs and impact pathways. (TP Tuong) EARLY RESULTS IN THE POLDERS What does this progress mean in the individual polders and overall basin challenge? Discussion (plenary or groups) to identify messages related to low, medium and high salinity polders, and cross polder issues. If groups, would need to report back in plenary). INTERDEPENDENCIES G1 G2 & G3 G4 G1 G3 $ G2 G4 G1 G4 & G2 G3 (half an hour each)

11 to 1230

GBDC 2 - Reflection on outputs and progress to date. How this links with reality. Plans for the future and what this means for adjustments to OLMs and impact pathways. (Liz)

LUNCH 1230 1400 Session 3 GBDC 3 - Reflection on CRP1.3 Aquatic Agricultural Systems outputs and progress to date.
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How this links with reality. (AAS) Plans for the future and what What it is and what it means for this means for adjustments to CPWF. (Kevin) OLMs and impact pathways. (Aditi)

COFFEE 1530 to 1600 Session 4 1600 to 1730 GBDC 4 - Reflection on outputs and progress to date. How this links with reality. Plans for the future and what this means for adjustments to OLMs and impact pathways. (Zahir) Open for discussion on issues not so far covered, or in need of addressing (identified during the meeting and posted in the parking lot) Potential for G1-4 to individually with G5/CPWF. meet

1730 to 1800

Daily evaluation Emerging key messages Interdependencies

Basin activity calendar Evaluation of workshop Closing (Boru/Nowsher/Bill?)

1830

DINNER

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Workshop Participants Sl # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Name Andy Nelson Parvesh Kumar Chandna Md. Moqbul Hossain Md. Ahsan Habib Md. Sohel Rana Md. Manirul Haque Md. Salim Bhuiyan Md. Sarafat Khan Organization IRRI IRRI SRDI LGED LGED IWM BWDB Email a.nelson@irri.org P.K.Chandna@cgiar.org moqbul_h@yahoo.com a_habib1963@yahoo.com sohel_lged76@yahoo.com mmh@iwmbd.org bhuiyan_salim@yahoo.com sarafat.khan@gmail.com,

Hossain BWDB

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Md. Fazlur Rashid T P Tuong Liz Humphreys Glenn Gregorio Manoranjan Mondal Md. Farhad Nibir Kumar Saha Md. Hafijur Rahman M A Rashid Sanjida Ritu Akhlasur Rahman Sukanta Sarange

BWDB IRRI IRRI IRRI IRRI IRRI IRRI IRRI BRRI BRRI BRRI CSSRI

fazlur64@gmail.com t.tuong@irri.org e.humphreys@cgiar.org g.gregorio@cgiar.org m.mondal@irri.org farhadnabin@gmail.com nibirsau@gmail.com hafijrahman05@gmail.com headiwm@yahoo.com sanjidap05@gmail.com rakhlasur@yahoo.com sksarangicanning@gmail.co m

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Subhasis Mandal Jitendra Sundaray Mike Phillips Kazi Kabir Manjurul Islam Benoy Barman S B Saha M J Alam Aditi Mukherji Camelia Dewan AHM Kausher

CSSRI CIBA WFC WFC WFC WFC BFRI BSMRAU IWMI IWMI IWM

subhasis2006@gmail.com jsundaray@gmail.com m.phillips@cgiar.org kakabirdu@yahoo.com m.karim@cgxchange.org b.barman@cgiar.org saha_sb@yahoo.com alammj_bfri@yahoo.com A.MUKHERJI@CGIAR.ORG C.Dewan@cgiar.org engineerkausher@yahoo.co m nkh@iwmbd.org mtn@iwmbd.org miahth@yahoo.com

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Nasim Al Azad Khan Mostafizur Rahman

IWM IWM

Prof Tofazzol Hossain BAU Miah Moshiur Rahman Masud Ahmed Md. Moniruzzam Mustafa Bakuluzzaman Mahanam Das Rajashree Nandi Zahirul Haque Khan Bharat Sharma LGED BWDB Shishilan Shishilan Shishilan Shishilan IWM IWMI

35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42

moshiur57@yahoo.com masud.bwdb@yahoo.com maniruz@gmail.com bakuluzzaman@gmail.com dashmahanam@gmail.com nandi_uma@yahoo.com zhk@iwmbd.org B.Sharma@CGIAR.ORG

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Farhana Akhter Kamal Shah Alam Khan

IWM BUET

fal@iwmbd.org msalamkhan@iwfm.buet.a c.bd akmsaifulislam@iwfm.buet .ac.b mmahfuz82@yahoo.com w.collis@cgxchange.org K.Kamp@cgiar.org P.George@cgiar.org hmiah@irrialumni.org N.Sarder@cgiar.org S.Salma@cgiar.org Md.E.Hossain@cgiar.org md.hossain@cgxchange.org sirajul.i@brac.net Alamgir.hs@brac.net bdouthwaite@gmail.com R.BAYOT@CGIAR.ORG

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AKM Saiful Islam

BUET

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Mahfuzur Rahman Mr. William J. Collis Kevin T. Kamp George Pamela Dr. Hamid Miah Dr. Nowsher Sarder Ms. Salma Sultana Mr. Emdad Hossain Mokarrom Hossain Md. Sirajul Islam Md. Alamgir Hossain Boru Douthwaite Ruvicyn S. Bayot

BWDB WFC WFC WFC WFC WFC WFC WFC WFC BRAC BRAC CPWF CPWF

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