Global Outputs

This section contains products coming out of the global synthesis of experiences from the CPWF-MUS Project.

Global: Learning Alliances to promote multiple use systems

This paper discusses the MUS approach and describes the ways in which the MUS project adopted horizontal and vertical learning alliances as vehicle for its action-research in eight countries.

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Global: Multiple-use water services to advance the Millennium Development Goals

This IWMI-CP-IRC research report traces the history of domestic-plus, productive-plus, and multiple-use by design approaches, and lists the documented merits and disadvantages of multiple-use water services approaches. For future action-research, a conceptual framework is presented that identifies the key conditions that need to be in place (or 'principles') for implementing multiple-use water services at community level and massive upscaling at intermediate and national levels. This approach has been developed and adopted by the MUS project.

Global: Climbing the Water Ladder - Multiple-Use Water Services for Poverty Reduction

Sustained access to water in low- and middle-income countries is crucial for domestic use (drinking, personal hygiene, etc.) and is also an imperative for people's livelihoods, income-generating activities and small-scale enterprise (e.g. livestock, horticulture, irrigation, fisheries, brickmaking, and othes). Overall, this book exposes the detrimental effects and impacts of approaching water services in isolated ways -- where the continued practise of separating community water services between domestic use and livelihoods have done little in alleviating poverty.

More MDGs per drop

A ‘multiple-use water services’ approach can unleash massive productive capacity in households and communities. This is what Barbara van Koppen wrote on MUS in an article in Capacity.org nr 36.

Ethiopia: Second IFWF 2008

Papers presented at the 2nd International Forum on Water and Food.