Nature-Based Community Enterprises
Description
Water, energy and food are essential for human life, but they face constant pressure from economic development, climate change and other global processes. Demand for all three is increasing, driven by a rising global population, rapid urbanisation, changing diets and economic growth.
In this context, improved management of the interactions among water, energy, and food requires an integrated “nexus” approach.
The GIZ provided a grant to the Albertine Rift Conservation Society (ARCOS) on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) as part of the agreement between the EU and GIZ.
The grant will be used to implement a nine-month pilot project termed “Enhancing Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus and Climate Resilience along Koko (Rwanda) and Lwiro (DRC) Rivers of the Lake Kivu Basin through Nature-Based Community Enterprises”.
Aside from preserving both Lwiro and Koko rivers basins, the WEFE Nexus project is expected to play a significant role on people livelihoods in the mentioned basins.
Overview
- Status: Completed
- Project Value: €150,000
- Project Timeline: December 2021 – August 2022
- Project Intervention Area: Rwanda (Koko river basin) and DR Congo (Lwiro river basin)
- Established community groups in each river basin and operationalized the sub-catchment management committees and one community nursery bed functional trees (Agroforestry, fruits species and indigenous species);
- Trained the community, local leaders on the concept of WEFE Nexus and Integrated Water Resources Management and Sustainable Agriculture Land Management Practices;
- Constructed and handled over one selling point fruits and vegetables to community in Rwanda;
- 100 kitchen gardens established at each basin river
- 100 improved cooking stoves provided to 100 households in Rwanda and 150 in DR Congo
- Promoted the protection of buffer zone of NYAKAGEZI, NYAKABANDE stream and KOKO River and stabilisation of gullies by planting agroforestry tree species ( both indigenous and exotic) on both side of Rwanda and Lwiro river in DRC;
- Established anti erosion trench on 30ha to facilitate soil stabilisation and conservation and planting agroforestry, fruits species and indigenous species and establish gravity water supply system;
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