Keywords | climate change, water storage, social-political assessment |
Countries | Ghana, Ethiopia |
Objectives | The project aims at increasing resilience of the rural poor who are vulnerable to climate change related risks in sub-Saharan Africa, through better water storage mechanisms, improved investment strategies and institutional support. It will examine various storage options, their economic feasibility, and suitability in various physiographic and sociopolitical conditions, their distributional outcomes and impact on local livelihoods, environmental consequences, adoption potential and resilience under different climate change scenarios. The study will be carried out in Ghana and Ethiopia, as these countries are predicted to be affected differently by climate change, cover the variety of storage options practiced, attract attention of international investors and have well-established relationships with the project proponents. The project team at ZEF will contribute social-political assessments in the Volta River Basin (Ghana) as well as in the Blue Nile River Basin (Ethiopia). |
Research sites | in Ghana:
Vea (Yaragatna watershed)
Golinga watershed
Saata watershed
in Ethiopia:
Koga watershed
Gumara watershed (incl. Gomit dam)
Guder-Indris watershed |
Methodology | Comprehensive analyses of storage options will be carried out from the farmers' and investors' perspectives under area-specific scenarios of future water availability. A diverse range of national and international partners and stakeholders are involved in the proposed project and outputs will be disseminated through established regional networks, peer-reviewed papers, on-line sources and policy round tables. |
Team Members | Dr. Irit Eguavoen (ZEF coordinator)
Dr. Wolfram Laube
Constance Abwoyo: The politics of environmental conservation. A case study of Guder-Indris irrigation scheme, Abay River basin, Ethiopia (working title), MA Culture and Environment in Africa
Ben Adol Otto: Socio-economic and political impacts of water storage facilities on rural household livelihood. A study of Gumara, Abay River Basin, Ethiopia (working title), MA Culture and Environment in Africa
Saaed Seidu Billa: Gender aspects and the access to the natural resources in Shena small-scale irrigation scheme, Gumara watershed (working title), MA Culture and Environment in Africa
Sina Marx: Watershed and irrigation management in a large-scale irrigation scheme, Koga watershed (working title), MA Social Anthropology
Susanne Remmel: Power relations and control over water resources. The case of Indris irrigation scheme, Oromia region, Ethiopia (working title), MA Social Anthropology
Weyni Tesfai: Resettlement, social bonds and attachment to land in a large-scale irrigation scheme, Koga watershed (working title), BA Social Anthropology |
Partner Institutions | - Institute for Ethnology, University of Cologne
- International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
- EEA -Ethiopian Economic Association / Ethiopian Economic Policy Research Institute in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
- Arba Minch University / Institute of Water Technology in Arba Minch (Ethiopia)
- Water Research Institute in Accra (Ghana)
- Institute for Statistical Economic and Social Research of the University of Ghana
- Volta Basin Authority in Burkina Faso
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) (Germany)
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Funding Organizations | - German Technical Cooperation (GTZ)
- German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
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Duration of the Project | April 2008 - March 2011 |
Events / Timeline | April 2008: Project Inception workshop, Addis Ababa
May 2009: Field trip to Abay River basin, project workshop, Addis Ababa
18th-19th June 2009: Meeting of the BMZ/GTZ research program participants "Adaptation of African Agriculture to Climate Change", Bonn
9th July 2009: ZEF Public Water Lecture by Dr. Seleshi Bekele Awulachew (Head of East Africa and Nile Basin Office of IWMI in Addis Ababa) "Creating Hydaulic Infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa: Debates about dam-building in Ethiopia", Bonn
8th February - 9th April 2010: MA field research in Ethiopia
30th/31st March 2010: project workshop in Addis Ababa, presentation of preliminary results
8th April 2010: Presentation at VAD conference in Mainz
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2nd/3rd May 2010: Second GTZ program workshop "Adaptation of African Agriculture to Climate Change" in Nairobi/ Kenya
18th May 2010: Presentation of research results at the colloquium of the Institute for Social Anthropology/ University of Cologne
19th May 2010: presentation of results at ZEFa research colloquium, Bonn
16th June 2010: Presentation of research results at ZEFa research colloquium, Bonn
27. June 2010: Presentation of project work at conference "Wasser in Afrika - Lebensgrundlage, Entwicklungspotential, Handelsgut", University of Siegen
September 2010: Presentation of results at Tropentag, Zurich |
Contact | Dr. Irit Eguavoen |
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Publications:
The Acquisition of Water Storage Facilities in the Abay River Basin, Ethiopia
by Irit Eguavoen (ZEF Working Paper No. 38)
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Community participation in common Natural Resource Management in the Lake Tana watershed, Ethiopia
by Anna Leidreiter (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
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Other research projects:
Friedrich zur Heide (Geography, University of Bonn):
Local Climate Adaptation in social-ecological systems.
Food security in the Ethiopian highlands.
(Contact: f-z-h[at]gmx.de)
Sisay Derib Demeku (ZEFc): Spacial and temporal water budget evaluation of Gumara watershed.
Tilaye Teklewold Deneke (ZEFb): Analyses of institutions for improved water governance in mixed crop-livestock farming systems in Amhara Region of Ethiopia.
Sewmehon Demissie Tegegne (ZEFc): Livelihoods impact assessment and gender implications of multiple-use technology interventions for improved water resource management in crop-livestock systems of Amhara Region, North West Ethiopia.
Abate Mekuriaw Bizuneh (Institute of Development Research and Development Policy, Bochum): Vulnerability, Perception and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia.
