COMPONENT A: DRY LAND MANAGEMENT
Support Strategic Watershed Planning processes, prioritize major investments to address desertification and land degradation in Zamfara State, and complement investments at the community level.
COMPONENT A: DRY LAND MANAGEMENT
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT
- Identification of strategic watershed boundaries
- Establish a knowledge base on watersheds in Zamfara State.
- Stakeholder engagement/ Inter-ministerial coordination mechanism for enhanced planning in Zamfara State.
- Performance analysis of institutional framework
- Field Trip, knowledge exchange visit in Zamfara State.
- Development of watershed management plans in Zamfara State.
- Prioritization workshop on investments in the watersheds
- Appraisal and validation of plans (20 watershed plans) in Zamfara State.
- Capacity building and training of Catchment Management Structures in Zamfara State.
SPECIAL ECOSYSTEM
- Wetlands restoration and management in Zamfara State.
- Desert oases management in Zamfara State.
- Protected Area management( Woodlands) in Zamfara State.
- Procurement, Construction, and support establishment of infrastructures and equipment for special ecosystem in Zamfara State.
LANDSCAPE INVESTMENT
- Sand dune establishment interventions including the establishment and maintenance of plant nurseries of assorted species and post-planting operations in Zamfara State.
- Watershed and catchment management interventions to better control sedimentation into existing dams
- Construction or rehabilitation of integrated small storage/small dams multipurpose reservoirs and irrigation development
- Flood control and erosion works to improve landscape functions, and sensitization, mobilization, and organization of communities to manage erosion and prevent disasters in Zamfara State.
- Identification and development of recharge areas to protect groundwater resources in Zamfara State.
- Large-scale agricultural investments such as rangeland management through the improvement of fooder and fooder nurseries as well as an integrated pest management program in Zamfara.