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Enhancing Communities’ Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in Drought-prone Hotspots of the Blue Nile basin (Kabe, Ethiopia)
(Wollo University, ILRI, UNEP, ARARI)
Tilahun Amede and Yitbarek W/Hawariat,
Stakeholders’ Workshop on Enhancing Communities’ Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change Induced Water Scarcity in Kabe Watershed, South Wollo Zone
Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia, 24-25 November 2011
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Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC)
• NBDC research focuses on the Ethiopian highlands and will examine the interrelated issues of rainwater management at Landscape and Sub-basin scales;
• Understanding causes and its consequences of low rainwater productivity;
• Innovations for improving rainwater management systems; addressing poverty, vulnerability and resources degradation in the basin.
o Managing rainfall variability; increased water storage;
o Crop and livestock water productivity;o Minimizing land degradation and downstream
siltation of water storage infrastructure, increased biomass;
o Resilient communities and systems that will manage climatic and market shocks
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Nile BDCRainwater
Management Systems
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Linkages
Sub-regional
Land-scape
Farm level
ImpactLearning
Communication
Nile 5.Coordinati
on, platforms
Nile 4. Consequences, impact, tradeoffs
Nile 2. Innovation
s, technologi
es , practices
Nile 3. Mapping, targeting. Up-scaling
Nile 1. Inventory
and synthesis
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Why Kabe Watershed?
• Both Programmes of CPWF and UNEP are focusing on the Nile basin; significance to the region, competition / regional peace??
• CPWF Nile has already three sites, high rainfall, relatively high potential..
• UNEP is interested in drought-prone areas, in the Nile;
• Presence of potential partnership/ access • Demand from communities and willingness of
local institutions
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Five fundamental challenges for Land and water management in Ethiopian Highlands :
• Limited engagement of local actors in designing Watershed management –related initiatives; differ from their perceived priorities;
• Physical investment on land and water management was not accompanied by short-term incentives of farmers’ choices; a policy decision without linking it to the local contexts.
• Local knowledge is questioned ; dominant external knowledge systems, undermining local “best practice” and eroding traditional institutions.
• Limited access to knowledge, inputs and services related to improved technologies and extension services;
• Weak institutional arrangements and sectoral policies
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Working Principles• It is a Research for Development Project;• Embraces a whole range of practices; from in situ
moisture conservation and water harvesting, various forms of irrigation to soil and water conservation and livestock management;
• Promote strategies that foster maximum economic use of rainwater that falls onto the hillside and agricultural field;
• Use climate smart technologies as entry points to change farmer’s income and behavior, but also enable adaptation to change
• Closely work with the local administration and local community towards climate change adaptation
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Overview pictures
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Specific objectives would be:• While introducing various technologies and practices, identify
key socio-economic factors (barriers and opportunities) affecting adoption, and effective utilization of land and water management interventions (e.g. livestock feed, water harvesting, watering points for livestock);
• In alignment with NBDC, create a local, knowledge-base forum that would enable communities, local administration and development actors (NGOs) to share best practices and improve their collective action for improved water management;
• To develop a relevant knowledge base (including extension guides) appropriate for the local extension system to apply climate smart interventions;
• To generate local evidence that may contribute to the regional and global debate on climate change issues, related to UNFCCC, UNFCCD, CSD, Nile BDC
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ActivitiesStakeholder workshops to introduce the project, receive feedback from local actors and share lessons;Experimentation with communities and dissemination of climate change adaptation interventions;Assemble knowledge on perceptions, incentives, constraints and collective action schemes affecting adoption of climate adaptation strategies;Mapping and targeting land and water related interventions in the landscape;Training of local extension agents, communities and other development actors in the area;Development and dissemination of materials to upscale lessons learnt to influence regional and national policy;Final end of project workshop, for sharing key insights, and policy influence
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Methods and approaches
• Focus on Kabe watershed; to be delineated• Introduce the project to the local communities through the local
administration;• Map the whole resources base, identify key challenges and niches;• Local community facilitator, to build collective action, facilitate
change and support the local extension system;• Establish farmers’ research groups for joint experimentation;• Provide technological options; through ILRI, ARARI, Wollo Uni..• Use local schools as technology hubs;• Continual community feedback meetings;• Frequent update of progress to key stakeholders;• Collect scientific data through the facilitator, PhD and MSc students
and ARARI;• Synthesis of Knowledge emerging from R4D
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Climate-smart Interventions
• Through Niche analysis, community prioritization, introduce forages (e.g Napier relatives) as bund stabilizers, gullies, homesteads…
• Climate proof food security options for Belg (Potato, early maturing barley);
• Map and develop watering points; sample shallow wells for SSI; water reservoirs?
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Home garden development
• The district is cereal-Livestock dominated; very limited experience in home garden farming;
• Major thrusts, improve nutrition and income for women;
• Home garden development is a knowledge-intensive process; demands initial investment;
• Linking them to market through homegardens?
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Intensification Gradients of Home gardens
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Improved Vegetation cover upstream
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The project Outcomes:• Generate knowledge on socio-economic factors affecting adoption
and effective use of climate adaptation interventions (land, water, vegetation);
• Key incentives for collective action in adopting and promoting climate adaptation interventions at Watershed scales. Key lessons will be shared with the wider actors in the district and beyond;
• Strengthened extension capacity in organizing communities to serve collective action and in identifying appropriate climate adaptation interventions.
• Enhanced community adaptive capacity, through formal and informal trainings, and reflecting on different production scenarios including market opportunities , access to water etc.
• Joint Learning site for Wollo University, ARARI, ILRI, UNEP and other players;
• Thinking Big; hoping to attract more joint investments