Performance Report for FY 2009/10 - UWASNET

Sub-Sector Strategies
Water for
Production (WfP)
Performance Report for FY 2009/10
• Poverty Reduction Focus
• Demand-Responsive Approaches
• Sustainability.
• Cost-efficiency.
• Decentralisation and Management at the Lowest Appropriate
Level.
• Privatisation and Private Sector Involvement.
• Gender Responsive Approach.
• Environment and Health concerns.
Sanitation • A demand responsive approach
• A “Package” approach:
• Adoption of appropriate Capacity building for local governments
• Enabling Environment
Sector
Coordination and
Management
• Use of Sector-wide approach (SWAp) as means of integrating
sector efforts across administrative and ministerial boundaries
• Temporary role of TSUs to build capacity
• Umbrella organisations for small scale urban systems
• The WSDF as a means of channelling investment
NGOs are expected to operate within the national strategic framework.
2.2.4 Emerging Strategic challenges
A number of strategic challenges have been identified. 3
Water Resource Management
There are a number of challenges related to Water Resource Management. These include, limited
capacity for Water Resources Management, absence of an overall water resource management
plans for the catchments in Uganda and pressures and threats on water resources due to climate
change and variability. Other challenges are poor land use practices and catchment degradation
have led to declining water levels, drying up of water sources and pollution of water resources.
Furthermore, there are unregulated activities in catchments leading to increasing pollution levels
of freshwater resources due to poor catchment management leading to rapid deterioration of
the water quality in the major water bodies in Uganda. While the struggle for economic and
social development in Uganda is increasingly related to water resources, the concept of IWRM
is not well understood at the political and technical levels outside the water sector. Efforts
have been made to improve the understanding and appreciation of the concept of IWRM but
there remains a huge challenge to raise awareness within the country and to engage national
development planning processes so that it is given due priority. Among NGOs, efforts have
been made to create awareness and educate NGOs on IWRM issues. More sensitisation and
education is necessary to get more NGOs to implement targeted IWRM activities. The policy
on disaster management, especially in relation to water resources (floods, droughts, dam
safety and accidental pollution e.g. oil spill pollution) is inadequate. Many institutions exist with
overlapping mandates, and on the whole there is, inadequate coordination at both national and
regional levels.
3 MoWE 2009: Consolidated Sector Strategies for Water supply and Sanitation
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