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: natural,…
Year: 2018
File size: 2.1 MB
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
File size: 500 KB
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 providing…
Year: 2018
File size: 634 KB
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, forestry,…
Year: 2018
File size: 617 KB