Mid-term review of building drought resilience project, Kenya and Uganda

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ESIPPS International is currently undertaking the Mid-Term Review of Building Drought Resilience Project, Kenya and Uganda for IUCN.IUCN’s Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) covers twenty four countries in the Horn of Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean and has thematic programmes (including Water and Wetlands, and Drylands) with projects in a number of these. One such intervention is a 3-year (2012-2014) Austrian Aid funded project entitled Building Drought Resilience through Land and Water Management in Kenya (Lower Tana sub-catchment) and Uganda (the Upper Aswa-Agago sub-catchment).These sub-catchments are in arid (Kenya) and semi-arid (Uganda) areas. Communities living in arid and semi-arid areas of East Africa face multiple challenges including recurrent droughts that hinder development and livelihood strategies. Interventions that enhance resilience and adaptive capacity of both ecosystems and the communities reliant upon them are, thus, of paramount importance. The overall objective of the project is to improve resilience of dryland communities within a river catchment to the impacts of increasingly severe and frequent drought, through strengthened ecosystem management and adaptive capacity.

The project will also build lessons on the periphery of drought areas in Eastern Africa specifically northern Kenya and Uganda, which can be applied to a wider context in the Horn of Africa. The project areas in Kenya and Uganda are connected environmentally and through movements of people across international borders (including into Uganda and Kenya) partly as a result of drought The project was designed on the basis of the IUCN Resilience Framework and also to build on the existing (now previous) initiatives that have been implemented by IUCN and partners within the area(s).Resilience is defined as the ability of a social or ecological system to absorb disturbances while retaining the same basic structure and ways of functioning, the capacity for self-organisation, and the capacity to adapt to stress and change.

Geo-mapping for Hay making in Climate Stressed Rangelands project map themes

Three map themes are presented and these include:

Theme 1, availability of forage for Hay making in relation to distance from the road

Theme 2, availability of forage for Hay making in relation to distance from functional water points

Theme 3, availability of forage for Hay making in wetlands

THEME 1, AVAILABILITY OF FORAGE FOR HAY MAKING IN RELATION TO DISTANCE FROM THE ROAD

Hay making may be for own use or for sale to other farmers or traders. When hay is made for commercial purposes, proximity of forage (for hay making) to the road is a factor to consider. This map informs farmers, policy makers and promoters of hay making technology about forage availability in relation to distance from the road.

A map layer e.g., forage stock within 3km to the road can be displayed and removed by checking it on and off respectively. Below is the map illustration

THEME 2, AVAILABILITY OF FORAGE FOR HAY MAKING IN RELATION TO DISTANCE FROM FUNCTIONAL WATER POINTS

In climate stressed areas, availability of water especially in the dry season is an important factor to consider for any intervention including hay making. The purpose of this map is to relate forage availability for hay making in relation to functional water points.

THEME 3, AVAILABILITY OF FORAGE FOR HAY MAKING IN WETLANDS

In the climate stressed areas, wetlands are important sources of forage in the dry season when other area lack forage or are burnt. The map shows how much hay may be harvested from these areas- apparently not much because they are getting overgrazed.

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Mid-term review of building drought resilience project, Kenya and Uganda

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THEME 1, AVAILABILITY OF FORAGE FOR HAY MAKING IN RELATION TO DISTANCE FROM THE ROAD

THEME 2, AVAILABILITY OF FORAGE FOR HAY MAKING IN RELATION TO DISTANCE FROM FUNCTIONAL WATER POINTS

THEME 3, AVAILABILITY OF FORAGE FOR HAY MAKING IN WETLANDS

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