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Nile Basin Outputs

The MUS work in the Nile Basin is concentrated in Ethiopia. This section describes the outputs from the MUS activities in the Nile Basin.

Incorporation of multiple uses into new (irrigation) systems: Case study Ethiopia

Catholic Relief Services and their partners have implemented several multipurpose water systems in East and Northern Ethiopia. Some started as domestic systems, while some were from the start designed to deliver multiple use water services. Download presentation.

IrriPlusEthiopiaCompressed.ppt (124 kB)

Ethiopia- Learning Alliance Dire Dawa

In this progress report, the learning alliance in Dire Dawa self-identifies factors that help and hinder the intermediate-level support agencies to provide coordinated and participatory support and financing to implement multiple use water services. It also assesses community-level factors and impacts. (Available September,December 2006)

Ethiopia- Beyond fetching water for livestock: a gendered sustainable livelihoods framework

This workshop paper uses the Gendered Sustainable Livelihoods Framework to make a gendered analysis of ‘livestock water productivity’, which is the livestock and livestock products and services generated by water. On the basis of literature on Eastern Africa and field data collected in Legedini the gender patterns in access to and control over water, livestock, and livestock products and services are analyzed.

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Ethiopia- Assessment of the prevalence of parasite infections among children in Legedini

This M.Sc thesis assesses the prevalence of two intestinal parasites (Giardia lamblia and Cryptosporidium parvum) in children drinking from vairous water resources in Legedini.

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Ethiopia: Two containers a day- the search for proper water sources in Eastern Ethiopia

This M.Sc thesis investigates water quality and other health risks in the various water sources in Legedini

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Ethiopia: Institutional environment & local coping strategies within a MUS system in Legedini

This M.Sc thesis analyzes the recent installation of infrastructure in Legedini: a borehole with diesel pump and the development of a nearby spring for health and food. As the technologies were too complicated and too costly and insufficiently embedded in village institutions, they were abandoned after the first break down. This highlights the need for technologies that are affordable, developing alternative sources of income or accepting people’s perpetuated dependence on external aid.

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Ethiopia- Gender and institutions in Adidaero watershed

This international seminar paper analyzes how gender relations shape the management of single-use domestic water points and an irrigation scheme and multiple-use water supply facilities and women's and men's benefits from the facilities in Adidaero watershed, Tigray.

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Ethiopia- Integrated multi-purpose water services in Tigray

This report synthesizes experiences with various multiple-use water schemes by design in the Adidaero (NGO-supported multi-purpose facilities) and Wukro watersheds (government-supported homestead water harvesting ponds and shallow wells) in Tigray Region. It identifies technological, institutional, and financial factors that help and hinder sustainable multiple uses of water resources for improved livelihoods. The report is based on longitudinal field research, two MSc theses (water harvesting ponds for home gardens and water quality of water harvesting ponds and shallow wells) and three MSc theses (shallow wells for crop production; household uses of ponds; groundwater). (Available January 2007)

Ethiopia- Developing appropriate home water treatment in Ginchi and upscaling elsewhere

This output synthesizes all results on action-research on point-of-use treatment in Ginchi, and its upscaling in other areas where the majority of the people use untreated surface water for drinking. In collaboration with Catholic Relief Services, filtration pots are developed and field tested. Research includes the analysis of current pollution of water sources and its impact on children’s health and quality of dairy products. The quality of water after filtration pot treatment is assessed through a monitoring network. (Available December 2006)

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Ethiopia- Documenting multiple water use practices in Eastern Harerghe

This report synthesizes assessments of a number of NGO-implemented water systems in Eastern Harerghe, identifying technical, institutional, and financial factors that help and hinder sustainable multiple uses of water resources for improved livelihoods at community-level. It also analyzes the NGO’s participatory planning processes and financial and other support for implementing the multiple-use systems. (Available september 2006)

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