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USAID’s Resilient Waters Program and the Southern African Development Community’s Ground Water Institute (SADC-GMI) have been collaborating to enhance LIMCOM’s capacity to integrate groundwater initiatives into their transboundary management efforts.

• 06/09/2023
• USAID Resilient Waters

The Matobo Hills is part of the upper Umzigwane in Zimbabwe, which is a key high-altitude catchment area in the Limpopo river basin. High altitude catchment areas are the main sources of water for a river basin, producing 100 times more water than lower lying areas, and also major storehouses of biodiversity.

• 06/09/2023
• USAID Resilient Waters

The Setswana saying “temo ke botshelo,” “farming is life,” affirms the centrality of subsistence agriculture for the lives and livelihoods of the people living in north-western Botswana.

• 06/09/2023
• USAID Resilient Waters

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has partnered with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) on a five-year project to address water challenges facing communities in the Limpopo River Basin and Okavango River Basin.

• 06/08/2023
• USAID Resilient Waters

When considering urban sources of greenhouse gas emissions, sanitation is not usually the first sector that comes to mind. Transportation, sure. Electricity generation, certainly. But not waste treatment. And yet, one study showed that up to half of the greenhouse gas emissions emitted from Kampala, Uganda could be traced to sanitation.

• 06/06/2023
• Christine Chumbler

Integrating water supply, sanitation, and hygiene development efforts with work in livelihoods, watershed management, and biodiversity conservation results in improved outcomes for each sector. Brian App shares key lessons from projects in southern Africa.

• 06/05/2023
• Brian App

Climate change is devastating crops and livelihoods in Namibia's Kavango region. Conservation agriculture offers farmers hope and the ability to mitigate the impact of an uncertain, changing environment.

• 06/02/2023
• Chemonics International Inc., USAID Resilient Waters

A wetland is an area of land where water is at or near the soil surface for at least part of the year. Wetlands are a natural source of water and habitats for wildlife.

• 06/02/2023
• USAID Resilient Waters

Sea cucumbers — which expel their guts to keep predators at bay — provide immense benefits to communities and climate.

• 05/22/2023
• Christine Chumbler

Recent work by the USAID Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Finance (WASH-FIN) activity to support water service providers (WSPs) in Northern Kenya, provide hope—and a potential way forward—for meeting critical needs and building climate resilience at scale.

• 04/20/2023
• Alyssa Boyer

In Uganda, USAID, and Berkeley Lab partnered with Clean Energy Enthusiasts to help women entrepreneurs upgrade to more efficient and productive electric equipment. After conducting a survey of small business owners on the challenges of accessing and financing efficient electric equipment, the team trained 240 women small business owners in eight districts across Uganda.

• 04/06/2023
• Christine Chumbler

Millions of people lack access to clean and safe water, especially in developing regions like the West Africa Sahel. The situation is even more dire for women and girls, who often bear the burden of fetching water, sometimes walking miles a day to bring fresh water back to their families. 

• 04/04/2023
• Ariel Schindler

Adaptation to water insecurity can create valuable opportunities to redress imbalances in decision-making power between men and women, or between different ethnic and socio-economic groups.

• 03/22/2023
• Stockholm Environment Institute

Published research on the intersection of gender, climate change and livestock production in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) is scarce. Some studies may address two of these issues, but hardly any address all three.

• 03/14/2023
• Livestock Systems Innovation Lab

Farmers face more risk and uncertainty than nearly any other job on the planet. Weather is one of many unknowns, and the unpredictability of climate change is making it increasingly difficult for farmers to anticipate what will happen and make decisions accordingly.

• 02/16/2023
• Steve Amodio, Simon