Construction of one of the soil conservation structures (Gabion) to rehabilitate one of the landscape gullies
STATUS
Activity Under Implementation
PROJECT/ACTIVITY DATASHEET
Project Name:
Promoting Restoration and Protection of River Rwizi Systems and Catchment Area
Geographic Location(s)
Micro-catchments of Kakondo, Ihoho, Kongoro, Nyakaikara, Kibaare/Nyamukana and Bujaga in 4 Districts of Rwampara, Mbarara, Buhweju and Ntungamo.
Implementation Status
Started in September 2021, implementation is still ongoing
Development Partner
Bread for the World
Implementing Partner(s):
None
Project Brief
The project is in response to challenges faced by the People in the Hydrological Boundaries of River Rwizi Catchment in southwestern Uganda. It aims at contributing to a fully restored and protected catchment for sustainable wellbeing of all persons in the catchment area. Specifically, the project promotes various interventions to restore and protect the fragile eco-system in the target as a means of ensuring sustainable renaturation. |
Some of the key interventions include; Reviewing and undertaking sub-catchment level community action planning; Undertaking full scale implementation of the sub-catchment action plans with actions such as construction of catchment soil and water conservation structures likes; check dams/gabions, stone bands, and trenches; Partnering with National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) to evict encroachers and restore degraded River wetland systems; Undertake monitoring and surveillance of the performance of the sub-catchment restoration work; building capacity of community based water resources and environment watchdogs; forming and facilitating water resources and environmental management savings co-operatives to run a catchment management loans scheme and facilitating representatives of Rwizi Catchment Management Committee to meet and regulate activities in the catchment.
Key Approaches
The project employs a community led, stakeholders approach guided by the following theory of change; If the ability of the target Population to manage their Micro-catchments is enhanced, the enforcement of regulations is facilitated and the process uses a Landscape and Wetland Restoration approach, then the fragile eco-system in the target Micro-catchments will be restored, ambient Water will flow in River Rwizi Systems and the Population living in the Micro-catchments will attain improved livelihoods and sustainable Development.