Community Action for Water Catchment Protection Project is a community-focused initiative that aims to improve water access through the identification, mapping, designing, planting of water friendly and economic trees and monitoring of the growth and development of trees at site. It focuses on working with nature to reverse catchment area degradation by engaging 3 communities to establish catchment forests for water access and sustainable development through forest product value chains.
Shortage in drinking water supply has become a major outcry in the cities in general and in the rural communities in particular. Such scarcity has been attributed to climate change but human activities have evidently worsened the situation through intensive degradation of water catchment areas (used for farming). Water shortage then causes health problems, hampers sustainable development efforts, slows down children's ability to learn in class and consumes women's time for economic activities.
This problem can be solved by restoring the heavily degraded water catchment with trees in favour of water table stability. The established catchment forests will help as important economic hubs for the three target beneficiary communities as they will use the forest for income generation when they get mature for example, beekeeping, sale of forest fruits, processing and sale of medicinal products, collection ans sale of forest vegetables derived from the various trees species integrated therein
The long term effects of the project will be reliance of the communities on the catchment forests as a source of income to boost water management activities. Another long term effect will the regular and abundance flow of water that will serve the communities without shortages. The problem to be solved by this project is water scarcity caused by inadequate flow of water. Established forest will ensure stability of water table and the water committee will gain capacity to manage water effectively
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
