Zambia - Community water management improvement project for traditional farmers in Mkushi, Masaiti, and Chingola districts

This intervention concerns the community water management improvement project for traditional farmers in Mkushi, Masaiti, and Chingola districts. It aims to upgrade and carry out field-testing of national guidelines for community driven planning, design and implementation of multi-purpose small dams in Zambia. Thus, the project will add significant value to the strategic up scaling of dam development and contribute to the attainment of the MDG goals and the ambitions of the Africa Water Vision. It will contribute to design planning and funds mobilisation to spur new and on-going water development programmes such as the Integrated Water Resources Management and Water Efficiency Implementation Plan (2007-30). The project also involves direct investments in connection with the field-testing of the guidelines that will include rehabilitation and rehabilitation of three existing dams and construction of one new small dam. This intervention comprises five (05) main components namely: (1) Institutional Capacity Building and Empowerment of Farmers; (2) Improving water access for enhanced productivity; (3) Knowledge dissemination; (4) Credit Access Facilitation and (5) Project Coordination and Monitoring.