At initiation of Phase II of the Programme, a workshop that brings together key stakeholders, will be convened to thrash and chart out pertinent implementation issues. One of the key products from this workshop will be a log-frame and Monitoring & Implementation plan. Kenya will continue being used as a spring board for technology dissemination. Experiences and lessons learnt from here will be shared with those of the Best Practices SUPs in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Malawi and Zambia, through publications or twining of government ministries.

A good example is the twining of the Ministries of Agriculture of Kenya and Rwanda both of whom have invested money to built capacity in RWH for agricultural development. In Rwanda for instance, the Ministry of Agriculture has invested USD. 6000 per district for the entire country as compared to similar amount of money invested in per district in the Central Province of Kenya (see excerpt from the Daily Newspaper). Below are background highlights for the sites. Some countries are already advanced in the identification of scaling up sites. Sites in Rwanda include Rwinkwavu and Mayange while Zambia has identified Chalimbana catchment as its site.

Rwinkwavu Best Practices SUPs, Rwanda
The William J. Clinton Foundation in partnership with The Tom Hunter Foundation operating under one umbrella - Clinton Hunter Development Initiative (CHDI ) and now working with Government of Rwanda and Malawi on rural economic transformation through the establishment of rural economic development projects targeted health, food security, water and sanitation, and hygiene education. At the later stage the project will establish longer term linkages to enhance technical assistance in supporting value added processing ,marketing and microfinance. On the rest of the country the CHDI has started to support the economic growth and stability of various cooperatives (wheat, coffee, tea, rice, Irish potatoes) in conjunction with the Government of Rwanda (GOR) on the procurement of affordable fertilizer to the rural farmers, marketing of surpluses and strengthening of microfinance institutions and value added processing.

Specifically to the Rwanda project, the foundation is currently addressing a larger area of almost 5000 Ha (hectares), 20,000 people and 5,000 households in the Eastern Province- Rwinkwavu where initial primary survey indicates that there is water sources (various) which can be transformed and managed and have strong potential for various irrigation schemes ranging from gravity fed system, supplementary irrigation, underground water, canalization and marshland irrigation, valley dams, water pumping station, rain water harvesting and other interventions like soil erosion control and agroforestry to initially support the current subsistence farming towards a more sustainable and stable commercial agricultural development in the Rwinkwavu drought prone area.

Documentation and information dissemination. There is already on-going compilation of publications that have orientation to the subject of green and blue water harvesting. These books were produced by RELMA-in-ICRAF, her partners and other publishers during Phase One of the GWP Associated Programme. The publications will be useful to:

• The GWP-AP and her stakeholders as reference materials for curricula development
• Artisans and fabricators for RWH infrastructure and equipment development at the Best Practices SUPs.
• Policy and decision makers for prioritizing on cost effective technological options that need budgetary support from government and external support agencies

• Managing Water for Food Self Sufficiency: Proceedings of a Regional Rainwater Harvesting Seminar for Eastern and Southern Africa.
• Rainwater harvesting by a Maasai Community: An evaluation report on a project in Talek of Maasai-Mara, Kenya.
• Low-cost methods of rainwater storage: results from field trials in Ethiopia and Kenya.
• Farmers initiatives in Land Husbandry: promising technologies for the drier areas of East Africa.
• Rainwater Harvesting innovations in response to water scarcity: The Lare experience
• Urban Rainwater Harvesting manual: The case for Nairobi
• Rainwater Harvesting Handbook for Agriculture

Website Development The SearNet website is undergoing transformation to make it much simpler and user-friendly. The changes will incorporate a face lift, review of the past phase to weed out irrelevant information and only keep history that is deemed useful, but above all, focus attention on activities of Phase II of the Programme. It will also take care of the electronic newsletter, whose physical production was phased out during Phase One.

Public Awareness Campaign: Media Plan The GWP-AP will convene meetings with National media groups to discuss and produce information and educational materials including a media plan for public awareness campaigns. The outreach campaigns for each Scaling Up Project site will be tailored to echo the policy objectives of its Nation. During Phase II of the Programme, Public Awareness Campaign ads will be broadcast nationwide in both national primetime TV and radio outlets for respective countries. Already, Kenya’s Nation TV captured the DG-ICRAF with regard to RWH innovations for both green and blue water use in preparation for the upcoming UNEP governing council meeting scheduled for February 2007.