RIWAH PROJECT
Increased resilience to climate change-related water shortages among smallholder farmer families in climate-vulnerable districts
Smallholder farmer families´ food and income security are vulnerable to and impacted by climate change because their economic activities rely mainly on crop production and livestock keeping. Once the periods of dry season as well as the extended draught periods caused by climate change set in, crop production comes to an end causing what is termed seasonal food insecurity. Simple and affordable water harvesting technologies (WHT) can increase water-use efficiency and improve access to water for farming in the dry seasons and periods of draught as well as contribute to quality of drinking water and enhance integrated water management at household(HH)-level.
RIWAH is a 3-year project with the development objective to increase resilience to climate change-related water shortages among smallholder farmer families in climate-vulnerable districts through the development of and advocacy for context-specific low-cost water harvesting technologies (WHT) contributing to sustainable water management sectors in Uganda and Tanzania.
Main activities are target group-led innovation of low-cost WHT, participatory MEL on resilience efficiency, and facilitation of dialogue between smallholder farmers and relevant duty bearers at district government level to influence development of local adaptation plans to include action plans for water access for smallholder farmers with WHT as a specific solution.
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THE APPROACH
The FFLG approach has proven to contribute to positive changes in food security, climate change adaptation and social capital for small-scale farmer families.
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