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management. The CPWF filled the newly created positions of Research
Director and Innovation and Impacts Director. At the basin level, Basin
Leaders coordinated and facilitated integration and learning amongst individual
projects. Project Leaders implemented their respective projects but were
encouraged to work as integrated teams in their BDC.
CPWF governance was comprised of two main bodies: the newly estab-
lished CPWF Board and the CSC. The Board's role was to provide oversight
and strategic vision for the Program. The CSC retained limited functions
including selection of, and providing strategic advice to, the Board; respon-
sibility for high-level consultation; and control over the Joint Venture
Agreement (CPWF, 2010, pp. 31-32).
The first three basins to plan and contract their projects were the Nile, the
Mekong and the Andes. Most projects funded under these BDCs were selected
through a competitive process similar to Phase 1. Proposals for each project
were evaluated by at least three independent reviewers, whose recommen-
dations guided the selection (CPWF, 2009b, p. 9).
During project implementation in 2009 it became clear that achieving
coherence and collaboration across projects within a basin could not be
assumed to occur despite BDC design and the contracting process. The CPWF
had envisioned that the activities and outputs of all projects within a basin
would complement and reinforce each other as a collective effort. Based on a

CPWF Community

CPWF Program Team

Consortium
Steering
Committee

Topic Working
Group Leaders

CPWF Board

Management
Team

Admin and
Finance

Research
Management

Knowledge
Management

Basin Program
Teams

Figure 4.3 Governance and management structures of the CPWF in Phase 2.
Source: Author.