Head of the east africa and nile basin office of iwmi, addis ababa, ethiopia. Chapter 9 towards integrated watershed management for resource conservation. Watershed management experiences in amhara region, ethiopia 1. Past and present perspectives of watershed management approaches are summarized in annex 1, table a1. Welcome to the principles of watershed management module. The environmental regulatory context there is a formal environmental regulatory framework in ethiopia within which irrigation schemes must be developed and operate under the constitution of the country and the state regions. Integrated watershed management plans in close collaboration with the communities involved. For implementing the project, without violating the norms of dpap, user groups have been promoted for the water harvesting structures like tanks, ponds etc as tank farmers associations. The agropastoralists in ethiopia living in semi arid watershed with degraded soils are among the poorest people in the wo rld and dep end totally on the rene wab le natura l r esources for their livelihoods. Overcoming limited information through participatory.
Pdf an assessment of integrated watershed management in. The share bale ecoregion project is a multisectoral and integrated designed in a way to address the multifaceted challenges of the bale. Watershed degradation is the loss of value over time, including the productive potential of land and water, accompanied by marked changes in the hydrological behaviour of a river system resulting in inferior quality, quantity and timing of waterflow the protection, improvement and rehabilitation of mountain andor upland watersheds are of critical importance in the achievement of. The farm parameter file contains data describing the farm such as crop areas, soil type, equipment and structures used, numbers of. Ethiopia ethiopia is a large country having 1 million hectares that is endowed with diverse climatic and physiographic condition, with a huge potential of water resource it accounts 122 bmc annual surface runoff and 2. Thanks to everyone who completed our survey about the integrated watershed management plan. This report finds that unmitigated hydrological variability currently costs the economy more than onethird of. The evaluation found that the crs iwm program has made significant positive changes in the lives and livelihoods of rural households. Integrated watershed management in ethiopia farm africa.
Publisheddocumentsethiopia%20firstindcethiopia100615. Causes and features of watershed degradation related to. Scaling up an integrated watershed management approach through social protection programmes in ethiopia. Opportunities and challenges for sustainable production. The integrated farm system model functions on all recent windows operating systems. Proceeding of the national workshop in integrated v watershed management on gibe omo basin organizers of the workshop phe ethiopia consortium phe is a nonprofit making local ngo that provides coordination and capacitybuilding to 48 member organizations. Both the regional board in mekelle and mekelle university proposed to select rama as a project area because recently a huge dam has been constructed with the potential to supply about 2000 ha. The policy has the overall goal of enhancing and promoting efforts towards efficient, equitable and optimum utilization of the available water resources for sustainable.
Harbu integrated watershed management crs staff member. Emphasis was placed on choice of technology for soil and water conservation measures. Integrated watershed management for improved food security in the ethiopian highlands. Intergovernmental challenges of watershed management of organizations bounded by a common orientation such as a policy area, problem, type of service, or a geographic area. Crs began its integrated watershed management program in 2001 to address in a. Stakeholder involvement in watershed issues has gained momen. An evaluation of crs integrated watershed management programs.
Integrated watershed management for improved food security in. To design suitable and effective strategies, there is need to understand watershed management approaches. Block, university of colorado kenneth strzepek, university of colorado balaji rajagopalan, university of colorado environment and production technology division. The catholic relief services country office in ethiopia commissioned a study in april 2009 to evaluate outcomes from its integrated watershed management iwm strategy and program. The following subsection presents watershed management, reservoir design and sediment removal to reduce sedimentation. Gis, remote sensing, watershed, conservation, management i. Detailed proceedings of ethiopiauganda learning on o and m.
Integrated watershed management iwm is a continuous adaptive process of managing human activities and ecosystems at the watershed scale that integrates multiple concepts and methods, including water and land use planning and management e. Experiences from participatory integrated watershed m ugent biblio. Hydrology, water supply, participatory methods, economics, watershed modeling, gis and writing original and new field research addressing the challenge in addition three highly qualified lecturers became phd students and took courses for 1 year in ithaca. Other organizations have also played a relevant role in promoting watershed management planning in ethiopia in various regions and weredas. Chapter 4 lake water management in three ethiopian rift. Lakes in ethiopia are often adjacent to one or more urban areas, along with farmers and other. Management project is piloting innovative approaches for integrated watershed management, and. Amhara regional agricultural research institute arari stakeholders workshop on enhancing communitiesadaptive capacity to climate change induced water scarcity in kabe watershed, south wollo zone wollo university, dessie, ethiopia. Cifor, bogor, indonesia photographs by mulugeta lemenih or habtemariam kassa, unless otherwise indicated. Iwrm is defined by the global water partnership gwptac, 2000 as a process which promotes the coordinated development and management of water, land, and related resources in order to maximize the. Watershed management experiences in amhara region fentahun mengistu dr. Gis and remote sensing support in watershed conservation. In ethiopia, this approach is new and requires appropriate strategies to overcome the barriers and practice effective integrated and sustainable watershed management.
Information for the study was gathered from official documents, direct observations. Assessment of knowledge and practice of mhm high school girls in western ethiopia. Ethiopia has a history of watershed management initiatives dating back to the 1970s. Moreover, many development interventions are planned to implement integrated watershed management. Strategy for world bank support to water management in ethiopia, which will pr ovide an integrated framework for developing and harmonizing strategies in waterrelated sectors. Integrated watershed management at bahir dar university. Mandal for implementing tank based watershed management project. Watershed management approaches are evolving throughout the country and are being used to solve tough problems. Coinciding with the project launch, the ethiopia country office facilitated a consultative and planning workshop at the beginning of february with farmers, village and district administrators, development agents, district and regional experts, agriculture and nrm office heads, researchers and ngo epresentatives in wukro, tigray, for the enhancing integrated watershed management with climate. Watershed management experiences in amhara region, ethiopia. Water for food security shaping policy for development. Integrated water resources management iwrm programming in ethiopia, expanding over time to seven other east africa country.
The result indicates that, in the burkito and lakole subwatersheds, watershed management focused only on soil and water conservation. As developments in landscape scale management strategies continue to emerge, the sheer volume of approaches proposed by numerous research and practitioner organi. Economics from alemaya university, ethiopia, and a phd from the. In order to have a practical solution to above problem it is necessary to go through four phases for a full scale watershed management. Input information is supplied to the program through three parameter files. Summary proceedings of ethiopiauganda learning on o. The agricultural nonpoint source model agnps was tested on the highlands augucho catchment by haregeweyn and yohannes 2003 but could not reproduce runoff patterns.
Intergovernmental challenges of watershed management. This document is one chapter from the epa handbook for developing watershed plans to restore and protect our waters, published in march 2008. Watershed management involves determination of alternative land treatment measures for, which information about problems of land, soil, water and vegetation in the watershed is essential. An evaluation of watershed management practice in ethiopia. Sustainable participatory watershed management is an approach promoted by the ethiopian government to restore natural resources and agricultural productivity across the country. Thus, soil and water conservation as a core component in.
Lessons from the national estuary program nep is designed for all individuals and organizations involved in watershed management, including states, tribes, local governments, and nongovernmental organizations. Official pdf, 86 pages world bank documents world bank group. Case studies on building resilience in the horn of africa. In spite of substantial progress in watershed management practice in ethiopia, land degradation and unsustainable natural resource base is still continuing. Integrated management of the blue nile basin in ethiopia. A comprehensive and integrated water resources management policy was adopted in ethiopia in 2001 where it became the first standalone water sector policy of the country. Soil erosion in the upper and middle catchments is the main source of incoming sediment. Watershed management a sustainable method to decrease reservoir sedimentation. Handbook for developing watershed plans to restore and. The environmental regulatory context there is a formal environmental regulatory framework in ethiopia within which irrigation schemes must be developed and operate under. It was introduced in development policies after the second world. An assessment of integrated watershed management in ethiopia. Participatory integrated watershed management, publisher. All the recently starting in 2011, the government of ethiopia devised integrated watershed activities are leaded by watershed a new strategy called green development strategy of consortium called watershed committee composed of 7 to 10 participatory integrated watershed management.
They are ineffective in gully rehabilitation practices and maintenance. The implications of watershed management for reversing. Scaling up an integrated watershed management approach. Management irbm, integrated natural resources management inrm, integrated watershed management, integrated catchment management, etc. This document describes innovative approaches to watershed management implemented by. Addis ababa, ethiopia foreword this guideline addresses important developmental activity and the contents give information on how to plan, design and implement community watershed development activities. Ergi watershed ethiopia global innovation exchange. Gis and remote sensing support in watershed conservation and management. Iwm projects, and part iii presents background documents, the. According to hatibu 2003 of the irrigation water management institute, their poverty is. Integrated rural development, integrated natural resource management, integrated watershed management, and integrated floodplain management to name just a few. Implementation of the plan is an ongoing effort so look for updates.
A study commissioned by giz have showen that on average, 43% of all interviewed development agents and 70% of all interviewed woreda experts in amhara, oromia and tigray regions use at least one slm knowledge management information of. Integrated watershed and environmental management 3 june 2015 2. Integrated management of the blue nile basin in ethiopia hydropower and irrigation modeling paul j. Integrated watershed management iwm is an approach that uses collective action by a group of people reliant on a watershed area to proactively manage the. Sustainable land management program in ethiopia linking. Integrated natural resources management in the highlands of eastern africa, edition. The participatory, integrated watershed management approach emphasizes improving the productivity of water and land resources in an ecologically and institutionally sustainable way farrington et al. One integrated approach for watershed management is through the use of computer models various attempts have been made in ethiopia to apply such methods. Introduction a watershed is defined as natural hydrologic entity that covers a specific area of land surface from. These associations as users groups are also integrated with the watershed association.
Community based participatory watershed development. Principles of integrated water resources management. Summary of integrated watershed management approaches. Pdf sustainable participatory watershed management is an. Watershed management watershed management is the process of guiding and organizing land and other resources use in a watershed to provide desired goods and services without adversely affecting land resources brooks et al. Towards integrated watershed management in highland ethiopia. The main issues of concern see graph continue to be the focus of our ongoing work and it is good to see how people rank these issues. Climate smart integrated watershed management project. Watershed management is part of integrated water resources management. Thus, watershed management implies the judicious use of. Hydrology, water supply, participatory methods, economics, watershed modeling, gis and writing thesis based on new field research addressing the challenge in addition three highly qualified lecturers became phd students and took in ithaca 1 year of courses they are now leaders of masters program.