Success factors and Challenges to enhancing rural community resilience to drought
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Success factors and Challenges to enhancing rural community resilience
to drought
Case study in Bugesera, Rwanda
Young Researchers Meeting, June 2016 in Gothenburg
Lazare Nzeyimana, PhD CandidateLinköping University SWECO Environment AB, Stockholm
I. BackgroundBy 2025, 1,8 billion will be living in regions with absolute water scarcity and 2/3 of the population in regions under water stress (FAO, 2007; Verma et al., 2004)On a global scale, agriculture is the most important water user which calls for new water management approaches (Sullivan, 2002)In Sub-Saharan Africa, rain-fed agriculture is the main livelihood source (FAO/NEPAD, 2002; Diao et al., 2007)Community-based soil and water conservation skills are being promoted to increase drought resilience (Foti et al, 2008)
Drought is of global concern for society but it originates as a local problem
East-Africa Australia
Early Warning Systems Water Conservation Technologies
Understanding Drought Resilience
But if we have Early Warnings and Water Conservations systems– How can that information and
knowledge be used on local, regional and national level?
What is missing to engage rural communities to become drought resilient?
Limited numbers of published scientific papers addressing the challenge to enhancing rural community resilience to drought
Most studies analyse the potential of water conservation initiatives and argue on their added-value in society
II. Current research and knowledge gaps
Resilience
Gaps to be analyzed
Empowerment (knowledge) Social networks Markets Powers and influence Gender Land tenure Horizontal and vertical communications Information sharing
Facts on Bugesera district- Area:1337 km2
- Population: 363 339- Temp: 20-30oC- Prec: 600-800 mm/yr
Bugesera region, Rwanda (Google Maps)
II. Study area - Bugesera (Rwanda)
o High frequency of rainfall deficit and late rainfall onsets,
o early rainfall cessations
o a significant number of dry spells and
o is prone to drought
Rwanda Disaster Risk Atlas (2014)
III. Research goals Assess success and limiting factors
to water conservation systems Map the vulnerability to drought in
Bugesera and capitalize the farmers adaptive strategies
Identify loopholes in Rwanda Climate policies
Discuss future scenarios Identify challenges and
opportunities for successful water conservation system and resilience
IV. Methods Literature review (globally and Sub-Saharan
Africa) Semi-structured interviews, field observation,
participatory vulnerability mapping Policy analysis, Focus Groups and Review key
documents Field observations, workshops, participatory
scenario, GIS, modelling backcasting (future visioning)
Developing a conceptual framework integrating up-taking and community resilience