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Annual PROJECT PROGRESS REPORT

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CPWF Project Annual Report

Project Leader: Andy Nelson

Project Number: G1

Project Title: Resource profiles, extrapolation domains and land-use patterns

Reporting Period: Year 1 April 2011 Mar 2012

Report Serial Number:G1_CPWF_AR_2012_March_31

Starting Date: April 2011

Completion Date: March 2014

Date: 26-March-2012


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Contents

Section 1: Research .................................................................................................................................. 3

1.1. What were your teams main activities over the last twelve months? .................................... 3

1.2. Adjustments to your research questions .................................................................................. 41.3. Describe how (research) best bets are evolving based on interaction with potential users

and on accumulated learning by your project. .................................................................................... 4

1.4. Surprise and success ................................................................................................................. 4

Section 2: Outputs and programmatic contributions ............................................................................... 5

2.1. Present your projects milestone plan ...................................................................................... 5

2.2. Contributions to and from the BDC and its projects, joint work .............................................. 5

2.3. Partnerships .............................................................................................................................. 5

2.4. Gender and diversity integration .............................................................................................. 6

2.5. Contribution to and from Topic Working Groups (TWG) ......................................................... 6

2.6. Research publications and communication outputs ................................................................ 7

2.7. Capacity building of people engaged in the project ................................................................. 8

2.8. Outreach to actors or actor groups identified in the OLMs or others ...................................... 9

Section 3: Outcomes ............................................................................................................................... 10

3.1. Working towards developmental goals .................................................................................. 10

3.2. Your projects theory of change.............................................................................................. 10

3.3. Challenges when working towards developmental goals ...................................................... 10

Section 4: Financial Management .......................................................................................................... 11

4.1. Summary financial report ....................................................................................................... 11

4.2. Project leaders commentary on the summary financial report ............................................ 12

Section 5: Implications for future action ................................................................................................ 13

5.1. Response to previous change requests .................................................................................. 13

5.2. Emerging opportunities and risks ........................................................................................... 13

5.3. Assistance needed .................................................................................................................. 13

5.4. Feedback for improving this reporting format ....................................................................... 13

5.5. Additional comments .............................................................................................................. 14

Annexes ...................................................................................................................................................14

Annex 1: Updated Project Workbook ..................................................................................................... 14

Annex 2: Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) ............................................................................................ 14


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Section 1: Research

1.1. What were your teams main activities over the last twelve months?

Four main tasks were undertaken in the last 12 months.

- Desk based research to identify available spatial and survey data that could be used in G1 toaddress the research questions on extrapolation domains and land use mapping. IRRI, SRDI,

LGED and IWM were involved in this process. This resulted in an assessment of critical data

or knowledge gaps in the coastal zone which G1 would aim to fill.

- Coordinated soil and water salinity monitoring by SRDI and IWM has been started in the

three target polders. This monitoring will provide data which will be converted into weekly

and monthly maps of salinity profiles in the region. Salinity, and its spatial and temporal

variability within the seasons and from year to year is one of the major constraints to land

use options in the coastal zone. The maps below show the salinity monitoring sites in eachpolder. In the three target polders there are four surface soil salinity monitoring sites

which are synchronized with IWM water salinity monitoring sites. SRDI are also monitoring

soil salinity in 65 sites distributed all over the coastal zone. In most places one sample is

taken at each site per month. But from March to May we monitor twice a month in some of

the places depending on the accessibility of monitoring sites.

- Digitising of key spatial data such as soil maps per Upazila and Mouza boundaries to fill indata gaps as identified by the desk research. These are essential spatial datasets required

for the extrapolation domain and landuse mapping.

- Seasonal rice area maps for Bangladesh have been developed by IRRI for the

2009/2010/2011 season showing the extent of rice in the boro, aus and aman season.

These maps have been published in RiceToday and submitted as a journal article. The maps

are the most recent and detailed maps of rice agriculture in Bangladesh and have revealed

changes in cropping intensity in the region, such as the move from single crop aman rice to

aus/aman double cropping in the area south of Barisal. This change has occurred in the last

3 to 4 years. The maps detail the complexity of the cropping systems in Bangladesh and

also the rapid changes that are taking place in the coastal zone.


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1.2. Adjustments to your research questions

The extrapolation domain mapping shifted focus from spatial mapping of domains to a spatio-temporal

representation of land use and land use limitations. The G1 partners realized that land use in the coastal

zone has been continuously adapting to a changing environment and that this must be reflected in any

assessment of possible extrapolation domains. Thus, in addition to collecting existing spatial

information, there was a focus on the collection of salinity information on a weekly or daily basis (water

salinity) and monthly or bi monthly basis (soil salinity) within the target polders as well as an

assessment of land use patterns by season. The research question on domain mapping has shifted from

where will technologies be successful to where and when will technologies be successful.

1.3. Describe how (research) best bets are evolving based on interactionwith potential users and on accumulated learning by your project.

Too early in the project to assess this.

1.4. Surprise and success

The first product that we have developed is the seasonal rice area map for Bangladesh, including the

entire coastal zone. These three maps have caused a lot of discussion amongst Bangladeshi scientists at

IRRI (Los Banos) because in several cases the maps challenged their perceptions of where, and most

importantly when rice is cultivated. The coastal region south of Barisal was one example where several

scientists could not believe that there was rice in the aus season in 2010, since their experience was

that there was never an aus crop there. Yet, other researchers stated that in the past few years,

farmers in this region had started planting rice in the aus season, resulting in a new rice/rice cropping

pattern in the aus and aman.

This feedback supported the need for regular assessments and updates of land use in what is a very

complex and dynamic land use system. It also reinforced the view that land use intensity is alreadyincreasing in parts of the coastal zone and that the there is plenty of scope for the adoption of the

rice/aquaculture systems that the Ganges Basin Project is testing.


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Section 2: Outputs and programmatic contributions

2.1. Present your projects milestone plan

We have requested a no-cost project extension for reasons that were already stated in the inception

report. We have also faced a long delay in hiring a key member of staff a post doc in land use

modeling and GIS that would coordinate the research activities of the G1 partners in Bangladesh.

Both of these factors mean that we pushed back many of the G1 milestones by 6 months, so that

Milestones 0a, 0b, 2a and 2b were the only milestones to be reported on in year 1.

2.2. Contributions to and from the BDC and its projects, joint work

Contribution to other BDC projects Significance of your contribution to other BDC projects objectives(i.e., outputs, outcomes)

1.provision of land use and other

maps to G2

Maps used for planning purposes for the innovation grant site for

G2

2.

3.

Contribution from other BDC projects Significance of their contribution to your projects objectives (i.e.,

outputs, outcomes)

1.

2.

3.

Work carried out jointly Significance of the work carried out jointly to projects and BDC

objectives (i.e., outputs, outcomes)

1.

2.

3.

Contribution to the BDC as a whole Significance of your contribution to the BDC as a whole

1. First assessment of rice crop area

by seasons for Bangladesh

Documents the seasonal variation in cropping area for the most

important staple crop in Bangladesh and feedback suggests that

cropping intensity is changing in the coastal zone and that the

speed of this change means that more frequent assessments are

required to quickly identify opportunities for new rotationsystems.

2.

3.

2.3. Partnerships

Much of G1s work in year one has been on the collection and development of key datasets required to

support activities in year 2 and 3. Thus there has been little interaction with partners outside of the G1

consortium.


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2.4. Gender and diversity integration

G1 aims to characterize the household composition in the target polders using census data at mouza

level, but we have not yet obtained this information from the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. Most of

the other spatial and survey data that G1 will compile is related to environmental characteristics andnatural resources rather than social and gender

2.5. Contribution to and from Topic Working Groups (TWG)

Contribution to TWGs (specify) Significance of contribution to project and BDC objectives (i.e.,

outputs, outcomes)

1. A. Nelson participated in the first

Spatial Analysis and Modeling TWG

meeting in Ethiopia, Nov 7 11 2011

The first meeting aimed to share knowledge and techniques

amongst the basins. This was an excellent and productive

meeting, but it was apparent that the Ganges basin is quite

different to the other CPWF basins which have a much stronger

emphasis on hydrological watershed modeling. There is certainlyscope for cross basin learning, but it remains to be seen just how

much relevance the SAM TWG will have for our activities and vice

versa.

2.

3.

Contribution from any TWG (specify) Significance of contribution to project and BDC objectives (i.e.,

outputs, outcomes)

1.

2.

3.


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2.6. Research publications and communication outputs

Output

Type

(see

above)

Reference (Author, year, title/

output name, etc.)Target

audience

(as in

OLM)

How disseminated / promoted / used Anyfeedback

on its use,

or how

monitored/

evaluated

b Mapping seasonal rice in ahigh cropping intensity

environment of Bangladesh

using MODIS time-series data

and spectral matching

techniques. 2012. Murali

Krishna Gumma, Andrew

Nelson, Aileen Maunahan,

Prasad S. Thenkabail, and

Saidul Islam. ISPRS Journal of

Photogrammetry and Remote

Sensing

scientists Submitted to journal NA

nRice cropping patterns in

Bangladesh, 2012, Murali

Krishna Gumma, Andrew

Nelson, Aileen Maunahan,

Prasad S. Thenkabail, and

Saidul Islam, Rice Today, Vol

11, No 1 2012

Scientists,

national

level

policy

makers

Rice Today magazine, online

http://irri.org/knowledge/publications/rice-

today/maps/rice-cropping-patterns-in-

bangladesh

Article has

generated a

lot of

discussion

amongst

Bangladeshi

rice

scientists

since it

challenged

their

perceptions

of rice

agriculture

patterns in

the

country.


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2.7. Capacity building of people engaged in the project

FAMILY

NAME,

Given

Name

GenderNationality Level (e.g., MSc,

PhD), affiliated

University/ type of

training

Research / thesis subject Output

and/or OP*


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2.8. Outreach to actors or actor groups identified in the OLMs or others

None there are no such activities in the G1 project plan until late 2012, early 2013.

Type of outreach activities

(e.g. informal/ formal

meeting, stakeholder

consultation, seminar,

training, forum)

Actors/ Actor groups

(taken from OLM or any

other newly identified

target group). How many

participants (gender/

diversity distribution)?

Dates, venue

(location,

country)

Any feedback or how

monitored/evaluated? Any

evidence that your outreach

activities led to some positive

change?


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Section 3: Outcomes

3.1. Working towards developmental goals

As covered in 2.1 and 2.3

3.2.Your projects theory of change

No changes within the first 12 months. The information that we will develop has changed but the

desired outcomes from the application of this information have not

3.3. Challenges when working towards developmental goals

It has proven exceptionally difficult to attract good candidates to fill our post doc position in Bangladesh


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Section 4: Financial Management

4.1. Summary financial report

Time1 30 Apr 2011

-

30 Sep 2011

01 Oct 2011

-

31 Oct 2011

01 Nov 2011

-

31 Jan 2012

2012 2013 2013 2014 CompletionReport and Final

Audit for project

closureInception

ReportProgress

Report 1Progress

Report 2Progress

Report1

Progress

Report 2Progress

Report 1Progress

Report 2(thousands of $US) US$ US$ US$ US$ US$ US$ US$ US$

1Value of tranche

payment received

this report period

- 185 -

2Value of tranche

payments received

to date

- 185 185

3Value of

expenditures for

report period

7 62 43

4Cumulative value of

expenditures to date7 69 112

5Balance held against

cumulative tranche

payments

(7) 116 73

6Value of committed

funds- 4 73

I certify that the summary financial report is correct

Controller Financial Management Services: Sunil K. Jhunjhunwala

Date: March 21, 2012

1Adjust the dates to fit with our contract period


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4.2. Project leaders commentary on the summary financial report

Please explain any significant commitments currently being held:Commitment is held against payment to which partners or

providers?

Amount,

USDExpected date of

expenditure

SRDI 36250 As soon as possible

IWM 37500 As soon as possible

If you are over-spent / under-spent please explain why or any aspect of the financial progress of your

project that has or will affect progress:

Under spending is mainly due to not being able to hire staff in Bangladesh

If you had moved budgets across line items please explain why:

Any other comments about financial aspects of your project, and any advice you would like to receive:


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Section 5: Implications for future action

5.1. Response to previous change requestsDescribe your response to requests made in the MT evaluation of your last Project Progress Report (six

months back)

What were the requests made in the MT

evaluation of your Project Inception Report?Describe and provide evidence of what you did to

address the issues

1. revision of OLM and milestones The milestones and gantt charts were altered to

reflect the no-cost extension request. The OLMs

were simplified and clarified based on feedback

from MT and G5.

Workbook and inception report were revised

following MT comments and submitted to basinleader on Jan 17th.

5.2. Emerging opportunities and risks

Emerging opportunities Implications for future action Output/OP

1.

2.

Emerging risks Implications for future action Output/OP

1. delay in funding from CPWF Delay in activities All2.difficulty in hiring post doc Delay in activities All

5.3. Assistance needed

Assistance needed with By whom (e.g. TWGs and/or theCPWF Research Team, Coordination

Project and/ or CPWF KM team)

Why is it important?

5.4. Feedback for improving this reporting format

Nothing major, but I do dislike text boxes. On one hand the report encourages creativity, on the other

hand, everything is compartmentalized into a large number of sections and subsections. Whilst filling in

these subsections I felt compelled to repeat a lot of information in order to respond to the questions,

which is not useful for anyone.


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5.5. Additional comments

Annexes

Annex 1: Updated Project Workbook

(see attached)

Annex 2: Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

Please send any updates to your projects 3rd

Party Intellectual Property Audit using this template

https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-

1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0.

If there are no updates, please state this in this section.

No updates on 3rd

party IP
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