RIWAH PROJECT
Right to Water Access - Affordable Water Harvesting for Smallholder Farmer Families in Uganda and Tanzania (RIWAH)
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.
The purpose of the project is to identify and innovate context specific WHTs, that are affordable for smallholder farmers, and through integration in local adaptation plans contribute to resilience towards water shortages. This includes presentation of best WHTs practice and facilitation of dialogue between smallholder farmers and relevant duty bearers at district government level, to influence development of local adaptation plans in target districts to include action plans for water access for smallholder farmers with low-cost WHT as a specific solution.
The project partners are of the opinion, that water harvesting should go hand in hand with agroforestry and agroecology to preserve, restore and build ecosystems and soil resilience. Correct solutions of low-cost WHT systems will vary from community to community, district to district, and the project partners experience from the organic Farmer Family Learning Group (FFLG) approach is that cocreation among smallholder farmers is core to sustainability and that locally generated knowledge that embraces existing (indigenous/traditional) knowledge and new insights offer the best solutions for small-scale farmers’ adoption of new technologies.
The project is funded by The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark through Organic Denmark.
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