People, Land and Water docx

[...]... Unit at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon xii People, Land and Water Nora Naiboka Odoi is a development communication specialist at the Kawanda Agricultural Institute in Uganda Kadiatou Ouattara is a journalist and works with Journalistes en Afrique pour le Développement (JADE) in Burkina Faso Souleymane Ouattara is a journalist and the Coordinator of Journalistes en Afrique pour le Développement... Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute (Uganda) kilometre Kumasi ventilated improved pit toilet metre xx People, Land and Water mm NAADS NARO NEF NEPAD NGO NRM PANLIPI PDC PLA PLG PNKB PRA PRA PRA PRCA RIA–3 SADC-CCD UFROAT UK UNDP UNESCO UNICEF US millimetre Integration of Natural Resource Management in National Agricultural Advisory Services (Uganda) National Agricultural Research Organization (Uganda)... Communication and Social Change, Sage Publications, London White, S A., Sadanandan Nair, K and Ascroft, J (1994) Participatory Communication, Working for Change and Development, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi and Sage Publications, London Acknowledgements I would like to thank the contributors, who were willing to share their experiences and reflections with regard to participatory development communication and natural... express their needs and to decide on local solutions and concrete initiatives to experiment with The project used communication tools such as practical demonstrations, and radio and community discussions, as well as traditional songs and poems to support and accompany the initiatives The process included four main phases: training, planning, experimentation and evaluation Training and planning were the... to water Approaches to water resource management are often centralized and allow for little participation of the local populations that are actually affected by water issues Field research conducted in this basin revealed that 50 per cent of modern water sources (hand pumps and modern wells) that had been established by different projects were non-functional as a result of the lack of involvement and. .. situation is not exceptional and can only be prevented by identifying the main actors in a community and understanding their roles and relationships before any process is launched Social analysis, gender analysis and identification of local communication systems, tools and channels should take place before any intervention that involves people in identifying problems and solutions Understanding the local setting:... differs from simply collecting data, and it can play an essential role in facilitating participation in the decision-making processes involved in a research or development project Understanding the communication context Who are the different groups that comprise the local community? What are the main customs and beliefs regarding the management of land and water, and how do people communicate among... on the high tablelands (during years of good rain) or by the side of the river (during years of drought) For this reason, each family had two plots of land, one by the riverside and the other one in the tablelands Her well-protected secret was that she could make these predictions by observing the height at which martins built their nests in the trees near the river After her death, and with the permission... research team favoured the use of two-way communication and emphasized dialogue among the different stakeholders with regard to water use The approach also focused on capacity-building at the local level in terms of organization, participation and decision-making in water resource management and conflict resolution, and in implementing or reinforcing local water management committees Once again, participatory... management (CBNRM) research with upland communities The research started after new policies were put in place by the government to protect forests in the uplands However, following these measures, only 1 per cent of the land was left available for agricultural production Thus, local communities who used to practise swidden agriculture had to change their practices and move to sedentary farming This .