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The Water Management and Development Project in Uganda improved the integration of water resources planning, management and development, as well as access to water and sanitation services in priority urban areas. More than 1.01 million people received access to improved water sources, and 25,000 piped household water connections were ...
Effective watershed management can help provide livelihood security in rainfed areas, while building a more resilient food system. The Rejuvenating Watersheds for Agricultural Resilience Through Innovative Development Project will help introduce modern watershed practices in the Department of Land Resources in the Ministry of Rural Development ...
Participatory Watershed Management. In Xining, like many other places in China, watersheds face environmental problems, including soil erosion, landslides, heavy sedimentation, water pollution, floods and droughts. With the project, Xining’s watersheds have been restored.
Effective watershed management can help enhance livelihoods in rainfed areas, while building a more resilient food system. The Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, stated that, “Watershed development and services is an important driver of agricultural growth. The farmers of these two states (Karnataka and Odisha) and of entire ...
• Enhanced watershed management prevented a total of 5.53 metric tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere and saved an estimated 11,743 hectares from deforestation. • The Jaguar’s Western Corridor along the Gulf of California was established, spanning 12,212 hectares of protected habitat.
The project will enhance the capacity of watershed management institutions at all levels to sustain interventions beyond the project and builds on the success of another World Bank-supported project, the Shire River Basin Management Project, which the Government of Malawi implemented from 2012 to 2019.
The project will directly benefit at least two million people in eight states. WASHINGTON, July 17, 2014 - The World Bank Board of Executive Director’s today approved a $178.50 million credit for the Neeranchal National Watershed Project to improve watershed management in rural rainfed areas.
Bolivia improved its development of guidelines, planning instruments, and interoperability protocols and successfully implemented a new integrated river basin management approach in three pilot subbasins of the Rio Grande basin. The improved hydrometeorological forecasting, together with flood management and irrigation infrastructure, now benefit over 6,500 families across the basin ...
Since the early 1990s,Watershed Management Programs (WSM) programsintroduced a more participatory planning approach that balances the community’s interests with largerresource-conservation objectives. However, thisapproach requires extensive capacity and institutionbuilding both within communities as well as within theimplementing agency.
Watershed degradation has impacted drinking water for over 700 million people, costing global cities alone $5.4 billion in treatment and droughts affect an average of 35 million people each year. Traditionally, "grey" or "hard" infrastructural solutions — engineering projects that use concrete and steel — have dominated efforts to reduce ...