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Country overview series: CRIDF in Angola
This brief gives an overview of projects CRIDF has engaged with in Angola, with particular focus on the impacts of the projects for basin communities. Angola is home to the headwaters of five transboundary river basins including the Congo, the Okavango and the Zambezi. CRIDF’s work in Angola has focussed on supporting the Permanent Okavango River Basin…
Year: 2018
Produced by: CRIDF
File size: 573 KB
Water for All series: Assessment of barriers to water access faced by young people
This brochure examines the prevalence of households headed by young people in Africa, assesses the barriers that prevent these young people from easily accessing water, and outlines how CRIDF can work to eliminate or reduce these barriers. The brochure examines the reasons behind inequitable access to water and how this impacts on the health, education…
Year: 2018
Produced by: CRIDF
File size: 808 KB
Water for All series: Assessment of barriers to water access faced by women
This brochure examines women’s role as primary water collectors, assesses the barriers that prevent women from easily accessing water, and outlines how CRIDF can work to eliminate or reduce these barriers. The brochure examines the reasons behind inequitable access to water and how this impacts on the health, education and economic standing of women.…
Year: 2018
Produced by: CRIDF
File size: 3.6 MB
Water for All series: Assessment of barriers to water access faced by people with a disability
This brochure assesses the barriers – physical and financial – that prevent people with a disability from easily accessing water, and outlines how CRIDF can work to eliminate or reduce these barriers. The brochure summarises the findings of recent studies examining the difficulties people with disabilities face in accessing water and sanitation services.…
Year: 2018
Produced by: CRIDF
File size: 1.1 MB
Water for All series: An introduction
This brochure provides an overview of CRIDF’s Water for All series, which highlights some of the barriers that prevent equitable access to water, and identifies how CRIDF programmes and projects can work to overcome these barriers. The brochure describes barriers to water access in terms of the five categories of the sustainable livelihoods approach:…
Year: 2018
Produced by: CRIDF
File size: 2.1 MB
Case study on improving the water supply system in Maseru, Lesotho
This case study outlines how the Water and Sewerage Company (WASCO) of Lesotho is taking measures to improve the water supply system of the capital city Maseru, primarily by reducing water losses through leakages. The report describes the challenges facing WASCO and explains how CRIDF has worked with the utility company to pilot investments in improving…
Year: 2018
Produced by: CRIDF
File size: 500 KB
Case study on public–private partnerships to manage flood risk in the Lower Incomati Basin, Mozambique
This case study outlines a public–private partnership approach to managing floods in the Lower Incomati Basin that has delivered economic benefits and reduced the vulnerability of poor communities in Mozambique. It describes the challenges facing sugar companies, contract farmers and rural communities and explains how a collaborative approach is…
Year: 2018
Produced by: CRIDF
File size: 634 KB
Case study on flood forecasting systems in the Limpopo River Basin
This case study outlines how Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe – all riparian states of the Limpopo River Basin – are sharing water data in order to predict flood flows and issue early warnings to more than 1.5 million people. The report describes the challenges facing low-income communities and the economic activities of agriculture,…
Year: 2018
Produced by: CRIDF
File size: 617 KB
Climate risk and vulnerability: A handbook for Southern Africa, executive summary
This executive summary outlines the key messages from the publication ‘Climate risk and vulnerability: A handbook for Southern Africa’. As well as information on the evidence for climate change, the document summarises projected climate change scenarios and the impacts of extreme weather events. The summary finishes with a discussion of climate…
Year: 2017
Produced by: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
File size: 1.5 MB
Climate risk and vulnerability: A handbook for Southern Africa, second edition
This handbook presents a series of definitions, concepts and programmes for addressing climate change in Southern Africa following the inception of the Pairs Climate Agreement in 2015. The document provides the reader with a simplified understanding of climate risks, as well as actions that can be implemented to address the impacts of climate change. This…
Year: 2017
Produced by: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
File size: 11 MB
