[VIDEO]: Adaptation Fund Projects in Tanzania Building Resilience to Drought in Vulnerable Farming Communities
Adaptation Fund and National Environment Management Council (NEMC) are implementing several projects in the Kongwa and Bahi districts of Tanzania that are empowering vulnerable communities to adapt and build resilience to temperature rise and drought in innovative ways.
The US$1.2 million Kongwa project is aimed at enhancing climate-resilient water supply systems in agropastoral communities of the Mtanana and Ugogoni wards, transforming unsustainable land practices into diversified climate-smart livelihoods, improving ecosystems and adaptation capacity. It provides centrally located medicine dips to prevent skin disease in livestock, self-sustaining circular block farming to several villages, and climate-smart trainings to secondary school students.
Meanwhile, the US$ 1.3 million Bahi project is restoring natural dams to harvest water, developing inclusive afforestation programs for locally adapted fruit and forest trees, diversifying integrated climate-resilient livelihoods with improved agricultural technology, reducing disease risks to crops and livestock, and enhancing community adaptation learning. Using solar energy, it pumps water from underground bore holes and reservoirs to strategically located water tanks and troughs, provides tree nursery management training, and diversifies livelihoods with bee farming and gardening.