MainDBDraft: Building Drought Resilience through Land and Water Management
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Building Drought Resilience through Land and Water Management
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Africa
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Communities; Policy makers; Practitioners
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Date of submission:
11/01/2021
Further information:
https://www.iucn.org/regions/eastern-and-southern-africa/our-work/drylands-resilience-land-management/resilience-people-and-landscapes-programme-replap
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
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Regional
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Adaptation planning and practices; Capacity building; Impact assessment; Institutional arrangements; Monitoring and evaluation/M＆E; Stakeholder involvement
Adaptation sector/theme:
Biodiversity; Ecosystems; Water resources
Climate hazard:
Drought; Floods; Land and forest degradation; Loss of biodiversity
Implementing partners:
Kenya: Water Resources Authority, County governments of Garissa & Tana River & national government agencies and ministries operating at the local level. Uganda: Upper Nile Water Management Zone; Directorate of Water Resource Management, and the District Local Governments. Kenya: info@wra.go.ke Uganda: mwe@mwe.go.ug
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Civil society
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Kenya, Uganda
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a) The project supported action learning and lessons learnt events; enabling learning and modification of approaches used in fine-tuning work plans. Action learning supported practical transfer of skills and knowledge through peer based learning with a focus on governance, landscape restoration and livelihood improvement. b) Involvement of all stakeholders and different groups in the community promoted a strong sense of ownership of project activities; including involvement in development of environment and natural resource management plans (ENRMP) and resource maps. This has built a sustainable mechanism that has secured the gains beyond the project location and lifespan. c) Livelihood diversification was supported through piloting the Community Environment Conservation Fund (CECF) which is an innovative mechanism that supports restoration of catchments while providing sustainable livelihood packages to beneficiaries. The CECF saw an increase in investments in small business initiatives by communities, with most enterprises having a positive effect on environmental protection, conservation and restoration. d) The project effectively strengthened the governance and management of natural resources by empowering formal and customary governance structures and platforms that promoted learning, knowledge sharing and capacity building in for sustainable landscapes.
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The first phase of the project was implemented from 2012 to 2014 while the second phase was in 2015-2018 in two catchments – Lower Tana and Aswa Agago in Kenya and Uganda respectively. The areas are arid and semi-arid in nature, with communities within the catchments facing multiple challenges related to droughts, floods and resource-use conflicts that hinder development and livelihood well-being. The project aimed at building the resilience of dryland communities within the river catchments to the impacts of increasingly severe and frequent droughts. Project has scaled up to a third phase – Resilience for People and Landscapes Programme (REPLAP) which builds on the successes of BDR 2 within the landscapes. REPLAP will consolidate and scale up gains in building resilience of communities to climate disasters, improving governance and management of natural resources while securing the livelihoods of the communities within five additional districts in Uganda and four additional sub-catchments in Kenya. The adaptive-capacity approach was used in the project where the communities were closely involved in the design and development of adaptation measures ranging from livelihood diversification, interfacing formal governance structures with customary institutions to adoption of climate-resilient financing for sustained ecosystem restoration. The adaptation strategy was closely linked to the IUCN Resilience Framework which has four main pillars; (a) diversity of the economy, (b) livelihoods and nature, (c) sustainable infrastructure and technology, and (d) self-organization and learning. Indicators: Number of: (a) livelihood diversification activities supported through CECF implementation, (b) water infrastructures that enhance access and balanced pasture and browse utilization and sustainable domestic use developed and maintained, (c) ENRMPs developed, (d) of resource maps developed, (e) capacity building workshops held, (f) local level policies and legislation developed on natural resource management, and (g) action learning events held. The strategy was evaluated against the four Resilience Framework Pillars for respective project result areas.
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The project successfully built the resilience of over 150,000 people. The project developed 8 micro-catchment management plans which supported the restoration of over 168km of degraded river banks and 400 ha of degraded landscapes. In Uganda most of the wetlands in the project area experienced notable levels of restoration, with additional impacts of increased water and pasture for livestock. The project built 2 sub-surface dams and 127 water sources with functional Water Resources Users’ Associations and committees. The water sources provided clean and safe water to over 40,000 people within the project landscapes. Environmental conservation and restoration was achieved through support for alternative livelihood strategies under the CECF. Over 30,000 community members directly the CECF to support their livelihood initiatives of which majority were women and youth. The involvement of women in action-learning events ensured that women were properly represented in documentation and dissemination of best practices and uptake of lessons from the project.
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