Enhancing Community Adaptation to Climate Change through Climate Resilient Flood Early Warning, Catchment Management and Wash Technologies in Mpologoma Catchment, Uganda

This project intends to build on the existing initiatives of Water Aid Uganda (WAU) in Eastern Uganda and undertake new interventions aimed at building the resilience of communities to climate change. The project will focus on strengthening institutional capacity for planning, designing, implementing and monitoring integrated Flood Early Warning systems (FEWS) and climate-smart WASH technologies. The project will be implemented in different sites upstream, midstream and downstream areas within Mpologoma catchment. These sites are considered to be most vulnerable and prone to floods and landslides and to climate change impacts. The overall goal of the project is to increase the resilience of communities to climate change risks of floods and landslides through timely response to climate hazards, sustainable community access to water, sanitation and hygiene services and integrated catchment management measures in Mpologoma catchment. The project aims to benefit 40,933 individuals and enhance 12 Early Warning Systems.