OpenAID - AICS - XM-DAC-6-4-012457-01-0

LOD data

WEI-WEI CATCHMENT RESTORATION PROJECT IN CHERANGANI WATER TOWER - WEST POKOT (WCRP)

Kenya

Status

Implementation

Aid type

Project-type interventions

Kenya

Location

€ 1,000,000
Committed

€ 500,000
Used

Description

THE PROJECT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE RESTORATION OF THE CACTCHMENT AREA AFFECTING THE SIGOR PLAIN, INCLUDING THE WEIWEI IRRIGATION CHEME. THE AREA HAS BEEN SUBJECTED TO EXTENSIVE DEFORESTATION ALND SOIL DEGRADATION, EXSPECIALLY IN SLOPING AREAS, DUE TO UNSUSTAINABLE FARMING METHODS, EXCESSIVE GRAZING AND DEFORESTATION. AS A RESULT, FLOODS AND LANDSLIDES ARE INCREASINGLY FREQUENT AND ALSO JEOPARDIZE TE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE WEIWEI IRRIGATION SCHEME. THE AIM OF THE PROJECT IS TO START THE RESTORATION OF THE MOST DEGRADED AREAS TROUGHT THE INTRODUCTION OF SOIL CONSERVATION TECHINIQUES. IN ADDITION, THE INITIATIVE WILL PROMOTE THE ADOPTION OF REGENERATIVE FARMING PRACTICESTO IMPROVE SOIL PRODUCTIVITY AND ENHANCE TE SEQUESTRATION OF CO2, THUS CONTRIBUTING TO THE FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATIC CHANGE. THE STRATEGY USED IT TO REDUCE SOIL EROSION IN TWO PRIORITY AREAS IDENTIFIED AS KEY TO ADDRESSINGTHE ROOT CAUSES OF SOIL EROSIONAND FLOODS 1) THE WATER CATCMENT AREA THAT EXTENDS FROM MOUNT KORELLACH TO THE FOOTHILLS 2) THE DEGRADED RIPARIAN AREAS OF THE WEIWEI RIVER UPSTREAM OF THE SIGOR PLAIN. THE INITIATIVE WILL MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO INTRODUCE CROPS AND TREE SPECIES CAPABLE OF PROTECTING SOILS BUT ALSO PROVIDING NEW ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF INCOME TO RESIDENTS. read more close

Year	Committed	Used
2022	€ 0	€ 500,000
2021	€ 1,000,000	€ 0

Agency

Type	Name	Channel code
Government	AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development	11000

Channel reported

Type	Name	Channel code
Government	AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development	11001

Project data

IATI IdentifierXM-DAC-6-4-012457-01-0
AID012457/01/0
CRS Activity identifier2021000266
Planned start 2021/12/31
Planned End 2023/12/31
Actual start 2022/04/11
Actual end -
Bi/Multilateral Bilateral
Status Implementation
Tied status Untied

Sectors

Policy markers

Gender Equality not targeted
Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) principal objective
Aid to Environment principal objective
Participatory Development/Good Governance significant objective
Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity significant objective
Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Framework Convention on Climate Change - Mitigation principal objective
Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Framework Convention on Climate Change - Adaptation principal objective
Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Convention to Combat Desertification significant objective

SDGs

13.1 - Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
15.1 - By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements
15.2 - By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally
15.3 - By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world
2.4 - By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality