annual report me g1 15 mar 2012
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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
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30 Sep 2011
01 Oct 2011
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31 Oct 2011
01 Nov 2011
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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
https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0https://sites.google.com/a/cpwf.info/handbook/files-1/CPWF_Annex5_ThirdPartyIPAuditForm.doc?attredirects=0