Over the past 25 years, Uganda has experienced sustained economic growth, supported by a prudent macroeconomic framework and propelled by consistent policy reforms. Annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth averaged 7.4 percent in the 2000s, compared with 6.5 in the 1990s. Economic growth has enabled substantial poverty reduction, with the proportion of people living in poverty more than halving from 56 percent in the 1992 to 23.3 percent in 2009. However, welfare improvements have not been shared equally; there is increasing urban rural inequality and inequality between regions.

This study is carried out in semi-arid to arid Karkheh Basin of Iran, where massive water allocation planning is on the way, but a comprehensive knowledge on basin

hydrology and impact of these developments on different water uses and users across the basin are lacking.

Le Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) vise a? l’ame?lioration de la gestion de l'eau afin de se?curiser et d’accroi?tre la production alimentaire. Pendant sa premie?re phase, un projet "petits re?servoirs" (http://www.smallreservoirs.org/), a e?te? mene? dans trois bassins subtropicaux, dont le bassin de la Volta en Afrique de l’Ouest (http://cpwfbfp.pbworks.com/w/page/5926948/FrontPage).

In early May 2011, people working on the Nile Basin Development Challenge (http://nilebdc.org) met in Addis Ababa in a 'science and reflection workshop'. Session 2 of the workshop examined institutional and other processes that are key to success of the overall program. In this video, Tilahun Amede (ILRI) reports from small group discussions on issues of partnership in the Program: How do we streamline, integrate, and coordinate the engagement of the various NBDC projects with national research partners?

In early May 2011, people working on the Nile Basin Development Challenge (http://nilebdc.org) met in Addis Ababa in a 'science and reflection workshop'. Session 2 of the workshop examined institutional and other processes that are key to success of the overall program. In this video, Ranjitha Puskur (ILRI) reports from small group discussions on how ways to ensure our evidence is credible, relevant.