📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Country: Ostafrika, regional/multi-country Funding amount: € 1.500.000,00 Project
start: 01.12.2024
End: 30.11.2027
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
The project aims to gain a better understanding of the impacts of droughts on water resources and related socioeconomic activities (drinking water supply, agriculture including irrigation, hydropower, etc.) and to identify adaptation pathways to enhance the resilience of the human-natural water system to droughts. This will lead to contribute to sustainable socioeconomic development in East Africa that is resilient and prepared for future droughts including extreme droughts.
Expected results
1) Raised awareness of gender aspects of drought resilience.
2) Drought preparedness and response strategy & action plans.
3) Improved drought resilience capacity to inform policy and practice.
Target group / Beneficiaries
The target group are relevant ministries, civil society and researchers, including an active Community of Practice. At least 154 (42% female) direct beneficiaries will benefit from raised awareness and capacity on drought resilience and its gender dimension through co-developed novel analysis and data. The project will directly engage with scientists and practitioners (co-development) and strengthen the capacities of respective home institutions and relevant administrative units in the extended Lake Victoria Basin (eLVB), namely Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
The project is implemented by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in partnership with regional partner Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC).
Activities
• To inform East Africa Community (EAC) policy making, the project will identify gender-relevant issues in current policies relevant for drought resilience by conducting EAC national surveys.
• Local women NGOs working on gender mainstreaming in water and land management will be identified as key stakeholders for the co-development of the Drought Preparedness and Response Strategy and Action Plans, followed by gender awareness training.
• Scoping activities to identify the most pressing needs to improve drought resilience in East Africa.
• By building on stakeholder-informed local needs for drought resilience, a coupled hydro-economic modelling framework will develop analysis and data for simulating the response of the hydrological and human system to droughts.
• Operationalized through a Community of Practice, Drought Resilience Symposium and local student research, regional policy making will be informed about co-developed strategies and plans to improve drought resilience.
Context
The dynamic socioeconomic development in East Africa, characterized by rapid economic and population growth and increasing urbanization, is expected to lead to increased water demand and put pressure on both water quantity and quality. Understanding the up- and
