6 th Regional Coordination Meeting Amman – Jordan, 2014 Water Management Strategies and Impacts on Livelihoods in (Palestine) INSERT COUNTRY MAP SHOWING LOCATION OF BENCHMARK SITE

WLI Goal and Intended Outputs Please insert a picture that represents your work Overall Goal: to improve the livelihoods of rural households and communities in areas where water scarcity, land degradation, and associated problems are prevalent. Intended Outputs: 1. Integrated water and land-use strategies for policy-making, tools for sustainable benchmark management and organizational mechanisms for community inclusion at the benchmark site. 2. Enhanced knowledge, skills and qualifications for key stakeholders in the benchmark sites. 3. Improved rural livelihoods of farmers in the benchmark sites through the adoption of sustainable land and water management practices and livelihood strategies. National Policy Objectives in Palestine: 1. The resilience of farmers and small scale herders affected/threatened by shocks is protected and livelihoods restored 2. Enhanced agricultural production, productivity, competitiveness, as well as enhanced contribution of agriculture to food security.. 3. Efficient and sustainable management of natural resources include the optimized usage of scarce water resources and responding to climate 4. Improving agricultural practices, combating land and rangelands degradation and introducing sustainable production systems.

Mechanisms for Community Inclusion Site Advisory Group Members MoA- Dura Agricultural Directorate MoA – Tubas Agricultural Directorate Ad Dahirya agricultural cooperative for plant and animal production Sumara Women Cooperative MoLG (local Councils of Atuff & Sumara) An-Nasarieh women cooperative Atuff Women Association Please insert a picture here Associations Benefitted (FTF indicator) 1.8 animal breeders trained on silage production, and 4 farmers on growing barley through hydroponic women trained on non-conventional cheese making 3.58 farmers trained on water harvesting techniques under graduated students trained on hydroponic farmers got the opportunity to practice water harvesting on their lands farmers benefited from the up scaled projects' activities (drought resistant Wheat and Barley) 7.58 farming families benefited from plating drought resistant varieties. 8.Atuf cooperative benefited from the implemented silage making and feeding demonstration Job opportunities: paid 436 days for 194 persons In kind work (beneficiaries): 218 days.

Tammun & Hebron Benchmarks, PALESTINE Benchmar MAP Target population  9 villages  707 households  4,243 total inhabitants  1268 adult male, 1489adult female FTF Indicator: Number of hectares under improved technologies or management practices as a result of USG assistance: (17.8 ha) or management practices as a result of USG assistance: (17.8 ha) Benchmark site (5,210 ha) GPS coordinates in annual report Up scaling area (42 ha) Pilot area(s) for data collection(116 ha) Administrative boundaries Tubas and Hebron Water catchment areas (56ha) Central highland (2,628 ha) Arid Eastern Slope (2,582 ha) Semi arid Gaza West Bank

Improving Water and Land Management: Field Level Water Harvesting techniques: – Semi-circles bund – Contour ridges – Check dams Planted with rangeland shrubs, wheat and barley The results showed: – The WH models are founded suitable as following: – Semi-circle bund is suitable for shrubs – Check dams suitable for field crops – Contour ridges suitable for rangeland shrubs

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Improving Water and Land Management: Field Level (Contd.) On the verities level: – Several wheat verities were tested in the filed crops land: – Sham 3, Hetieh, Debieh, Anbar, F8 and Kahatat. – Each variety was planted with an area of 10 ha per each variety. The obtained results showed that: – Within the benchmark area, the biomass of harvested Sham 3 and Hetieh the highest. – In the up-scaled areas (outside the Benchmark) also, the highest production form seeds and hay was achieved by Sham 3 and Hetieh.

Improving Land & Water Management: Pilot testing at Field-level Development and Use of Technologies (FTF Indicators) TechnologyStage of DevtLand Area (ha)Users (m)Users (f) Reintroducing the indigenous species in the rangeland areas Recently Started/ continue Introduction of drought resistance cereal species. Continuous Adopting Water harvesting techniques Continuous PHOTOS, details (add another slide if needed)

Understanding and improving on-farm Income Farm Budget Type A Input costs: Sheep fed by the combination of concentrated feed + hay: Feeding cost: 531 USD/ head/year Milk production = 220 liter Total revenue = 610 USD Net return = 79 USD Farm Budget Type B Input costs: Sheep fed by the combination of concentrated feed Silage + hay: Feeding cost: 440 USD/ head/year Milk production = 244 liter Total revenue = 638 USD Net return = 198 USD

Predicting Results from Livelihood Improvement Estimated Household Income from Occupation A During the year 2015, The demonstration will be up-scaled on household level Estimated Household Income from Occupation B

Summary of Enhanced Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications at the Benchmark Site In-country Farmers: Trainings on cheese production, water harvesting, silage and hydroponic. 70 male and 10 females Building the capacities of the project team and MoA in water harvesting techniques (both lectures and on field training) Regional 1."The Economics of natural Resource Management", June 2014, Amman – Jordan (2 persons, males) 2. "Catalysing Change through the Impact Pathway and Theories of Change", WLI Socio-Economic Thematic Group, April 2014, Amman – Jordan (3 persons, males)

Challenges, Needs and Opportunities Challenges – Fluctuation of rainfall – Drought – Land degradation – Community commencement – High cost of agro-inputs. – Political conflict Needs: – Continue the human capacity building – Up-scaling the succeeded field experiments and demonstrations – Financial resources to cover the costs Opportunities: – Linking the WLI initiatives with other institutional funds – Enhancement of partnership between the civil society and governments – Exchange/win the knowhow on national, regional and international levels. – Sustain the natural resources management.

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Draft Workplan for 2015: Accelerated Schedule Improve Water Mgt Strategies - Activity Improve Livelihoods - Activity Exchange Knowledge - Activity Quarterly & Annual Reporting Monitoring WLI Indicators

Resource Mobilization Plan for 2015: (Country) Total (US$) Additional Resource Needs Other Sources (K US$) WLI Seed Fund (US$) Improve Water Mgt Strategies (Item) $(Source)- Activity (Item) $(Source)- Activity (Item) $(Source)- Activity (Estimate: US$)$(indicative):SUBTOTAL Improve Livelihoods (Item) $(Source)- Activity (Item) $(Source)- Activity (Item) $(Source)- Activity (Estimate: US$)$(indicative):SUBTOTAL $ Improve & Exchange Knowldge (Item) $(Source)- Activity (Item) $(Source)- Activity (Item) $(Source)- Activity (Estimate: US$)$(indicative):SUBTOTAL Eg 1 million 30, US$ GRAND TOTAL

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