Performance Report for FY 2009/10 - UWASNET

Performance Report for FY 2009/10
inform the situation of the catchment. At that time the DWRM was in the process of
rolling out pilots on the IWRM in the country; PROTOS then came into partnership
with them for coordination and steering the IWRM process. PROTOS further made
partnerships with SNV and LAGBIMO as organisations that were already active in
the region. From these partnerships key stake holders were brought on board to
form a steering committee that sat to choose rivers within the whole catchment that
needed intervention. At that point River Mpanga was selected and a water situation
analysis for the whole river basin carried out. A stakeholder forum that included most
of the sectors of the districts of Kamwenge, Kabarole and Kyenjojo and civil society
were then invited. The stakeholders came up with four critical problems that needed
intervention, these are: soil erosion, wetland degradation, hydrological monitoring,
and pollution. In this meeting a Catchment Management Committee (CMC) and a
Technical Team (TT) were formed to take up these issues. The TT has been involved
in the drafting of a River Management Plan (RMP) where consultations of different
sectors pertaining activities related to River Mpanga were done. The final RMP will be
endorsed by the CMC for intervention and reviewed annually.
Pilot projects on IWRM
Besides playing the technical and capacity building role, PROTOS started to roll out
pilots projects of the gaps that remained at the basin level and planning for up
scaling. For a year now, PROTOS has carried out school sensitisation with drawing
competitions and a river Mpanga protection launch with the aim of awareness
creation among children in schools neighbouring Mpanga. These efforts were then
consolidated in Kahunga Bunyonyi primary school where Primary six(P.6) pupils were
asked to write short essays, poems and dialogues about the situation of River Mpaga
on the same selected issues. From these compilations a school IWRM hand book
is being worked on to be disseminated in the schools of Kyenjojo, Kamwenge and
Kabarole districts as an English training tool. This activity is being up scaled in the
Subcounty of Bukuuku Kabarole District where a lot of erosion has been identified
and little is being done to mitigate it. Sensitization in schools in Kazingo has been
combined with tree growing in the 20 metres from the river banks of willing landlords
as an intervention to address the severe river bank erosion.
Lessons learnt
• Coordination and partnerships bring many stakeholders together in the
accomplishment of a common task and leads to a first step in setting a common
focus and integrating interventions.
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