Water and Land Resource Centre
Water and Land Resource Centre (WLRC) is an autonomous think tank which was reconstituted in 2011 from projects that succeeded the Soil and Water Conservation Program (SCRP) (1981) which was started in 1981 and implemented in the highland parts of Ethiopia. The Centre is governed by a Board of Trustees, which has a direct oversight power over the Executive organ.
Since its establishment, the Centre has made outstanding contributions in the areas of water and land resources management. To name just a few, WLRC has:
• Generated ample knowledge and demonstrated innovative water and land management practices, which it shared with government institutions and stakeholders in different forms and avenues.
• Extensively supported and promoted the implementation of Integrated Landscape Management (ILM) and Integrated Water and Land Resource Management (IWLRM) at watershed/landscape levels and shared the knowledge and experiences;
• Designed and developed Exit Strategy, Performance and Sustainability Assessment for Watershed Management (ESPAWM) guideline and software;
• Developed for stakeholder organizations a state-of-the art knowledge management system on water and land resources, named Water and Land Resource Information System (WALRIS) to support cross-scale policy making, policy dialogue and designing of interventions;
• Developed Knowledge Management and Information System for Sustainable Land Management (KMIS_SLM) for the National SLMP Programme implemented by Ministry of Agriculture;
• Provided community services, technical backstopping and capacity building to staff of stakeholder organizations and Ministries whose engagements relate to aspects of water and land