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The Role Of Community Based Organizations In Transferring Climate Change Information: A Case Of Eastern Province Farmers Community, Rwanda
(2017)
In Rwanda, agriculture is the main important sector of the economy and is the engine of growing the economy and its modernization. The change in precipitation, temperature, and extreme events such as drought and floods are ...
Assessment Of The Role Of Microfinance Institutions In Improving Smallholder Farmers’ Perception And Their Adaptation Capacities To Climate Change In Loumbila In Burkina Faso
(2017)
Burkina Faso, a low income and landlocked country located in West Africa in the Sahel with limited natural resources,will face challenging changes in temperature, rainfall,storms and extreme weather events which will ...
Assessing The Capacity Of The Current Institutional Framework In Rwanda To Implement Integrated Water Resources Management (Iwrm)
(2017)
Scarcity and misuse of fresh water pose a serious and growing threat to sustainable development and protection of the environment, human health, food security and industrial development. This calls for the adoption of the ...
Unlocking Finance for Advanced Irrigation Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study of Djaramaya Scheme in Chad
(2019-09-03)
Nearly 236 million in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) were undernourished in 2017 due to food shortages. Agriculture in most of the SSA countries is rainfed and where irrigation is practiced inadequate surface method is used. In ...
Integrating Household Water treatment and Safe Storage Practices in Zambia’s National Water Policy for Effective Regulation, Evaluation and Sustainable Water Provision
(PAUWES, 2020-12)
Providing safe water to the poor in developing countries is a challenge that has persisted through
decades of international development efforts. Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage
(HWTS) has been put forth as an ...
Implication of water policy and water utility management systems on the performance of water quality service delivery in Africa Case study from Cote d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso
(2020-12)
A well performing water utility is the one that is able to provide sustainable high quality water and
waste water services to the community. It should be able to cover its financial and operational
costs and provide water ...
Establishing Efficient Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework of Transboundary Water Governance and Management, the Case of Tanganyika Lake Basin
(PAUWES, 2020-12)
As water is in complex circulation, the consideration of the interactions between all types of
waters — surface water, groundwater and return waters — is important for the management
and protection of these shared ...
Assessing the Institutional Setups and the Impacts of Shared Responsibilities in Poor Water Services: A Case Study of Garowe, Somalia
(2018)
Background: Post-conflict poor water services in the developing counties are caused mainly by the institutional setups and the devastating infrastructures. This study tries to answer the following question: How the ...
Measuring the Water Governance Efficiency of the Upper Blue Nile River Basin
(2019-10-02)
The Nile Basin is shared by eleven riparian countries and is the lifeline for more than 238 million people living in the basin. The Nile water has been crucial for upstream and downstream users with competing needs such ...
Effect of Non-Revenue Water on the Operation of African Water Utilities: Case studies of Burkina Faso and Cote d’Ivoire
(PAUWES, 2020-12)
Non-Revenue Water (NRW) continues to be a threat to water utilities’ technical and financial
sustainability in African countries. However, the issue lies in paying little to no attention on the
effect that it has on the ...