Sustaining inclusive Collective Action that Links across Economic and Ecological Scales in the upper watershed (SCALES)

SCALES, a project by the CGIAR* Challenge Programme on Water and Food, is coordinated by the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) and being implemented by partners and collaborators in Kenya and Columbia.

Implementation sites

Site 1: Fùquene Lake Basin, Columbia

Site 2: Coello River Watershed, Columbia

Site 3: Nyando River Basin, Kenya

Activities in the Nyando Basin

Planning Studios – Up to 100 Maseno University students will be involved in rural, urban and regional 'planning studios.' The studios will generate real information for planning and provide students with great learning opportunities.

Support to Local Water Development Initiatives – Sustainable Aid in Africa (SANA) will take the lead on water development in a few select communities

Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation – The water point development activities will be carefully monitored by the communities and the project.

Multi-Stakeholder Basin Dialogue – SANA will work with other partners and collaborators to convene and facilitate 'conversation' on watershed and water resource management in the Nyando basin. The conversation will include stakeholders often excluded from formal management institutions.



* Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research