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1 Christiansson, C. 1989. Rates of erosion in the East African savanna environment: Assessments of runoff and soil loss in natural catchments and on experimental plots. In Thomas, D. B.; Biamah, E. K.; Kilewe, A. M.; Lundgren, L.; Mochoge, B. O. (Eds.), Soil and water conservation in Kenya - Proceedings of the Third National Workshop, Kabete, Nairobi, 16-19 September 1986. Nairobi, Kenya: University of Nairobi. Department of Agricultural Engineering; SIDA. pp.99-114.
Erosion ; Runoff ; Catchment areas ; Precipitation / East Africa / Tanzania / Dodoma / Arusha / Mpwapwa
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.4 G140 THO Record No: H024024)
2 Hatibu, N.; Mahoo, H. 2001. Rainwater harvesting technologies for agricultural production: A case for Dodoma, Tanzania. Unpublished report. Sokoine University of Agriculture. Department of Agricultural Engineering and Land Planning, Morogoro, Tanzania. 20p.
Water harvesting ; Water storage ; Crop production ; Soil moisture ; Surface runoff ; Tillage ; Bunds ; Catchment areas / Tanzania / Dodoma
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 5754 Record No: H028550)
3 Hatibu, N.; Kajiru, G. J.; Senkondo, E. M. 2000. Technical integration of RWH into development plans: Think globally, plan locally. In Hatibu, N.; Mahoo, H. F. (Eds.), Rainwater harvesting for natural resources management: A planning guide for Tanzania. Nairobi, Kenya: SIDA. RELMA. pp.39-57.
Rain ; Water harvesting ; Development plans ; Runoff ; Erosion ; Risks ; Catchment areas ; Soil texture ; Stream flow ; Data collection ; Mapping ; Soil surveys ; Climate ; Case studies ; Drainage / Tanzania / Dodoma
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G148 HAT Record No: H029379)
4 Lazaro, E. A.; Senkondo, E. M.; Kajiru, G. J. 2000. Fitting RWH into the socio-economic environment: Ensuring acceptability and sustainability. In Hatibu, N.; Mahoo, H. F. (Eds.), Rainwater harvesting for natural resources management: A planning guide for Tanzania. Nairobi, Kenya: SIDA. RELMA. pp.87-100.
Rain ; Water harvesting ; Planning ; Sustainability ; Policy ; Legal aspects ; Land tenure ; Water resources ; Water policy ; Water rights ; Local government ; Public sector ; Non-governmental organizations ; Equity ; Gender ; Cost benefit analysis ; Maize ; Rice ; Case studies / Tanzania / Maswa District / Dodoma / Shinyanga / Ilobashi Reservoir Project
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G148 HAT Record No: H029381)
5 Mandara, C. G.; Niehof, A.; van der Horst, H. 2017. Women and rural water management: token representatives or paving the way to power? Water Alternatives, 10(1):116-133.
Gender ; Women's participation ; Water management ; Domestic water ; Water supply ; Rural communities ; Water governance ; Committees ; Community involvement ; Assemblies ; Social welfare ; Villages ; Leadership ; Decision making ; Households ; Socioeconomic environment ; Development projects ; Maintenance ; Capital allocation ; Case studies / Tanzania / Dodoma / Kondoa / Mpwapwa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048056)
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This paper discusses how informal structures intersect with women’s participation in formally created decision-making spaces for managing domestic water at the village level in Tanzania. The results reveal the influence of the informal context on women’s access to and performance in the formal decision-making spaces. Overall, there is low community involvement in local governance structures, and in most village assemblies that of women is even less. Only in the Social Welfare Committee women are fairly well represented, presumably because of its linkage with the traditional division of labour and women’s practical gender needs. In the Village Water Committees, women’s representation is regulated by a quota system but women rarely occupy leadership positions. Even when husbands are supportive, patriarchal culture, scepticism and negative stereotypical assumptions on female leadership frustrate the government’s effort to enlarge women’s representation in the local decision-making spaces. Three entry points for change were identified: successful women leaders as role models; women’s passive participation in village meetings that could develop into active participation; and women’s membership of social and economic groups which strengthens their skills and bargaining position.
6 Schindler, J.; Graef, F.; Konig, H. J. 2016. Participatory impact assessment: bridging the gap between scientists' theory and farmers' practice. Agricultural Systems, 148:38-43. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2016.07.002]
Agricultural practices ; Ex-ante impact assessment ; Participatory approaches ; Farmer participation ; Scientists ; Food security ; Rainwater ; Water harvesting ; Fertilizer application ; Nutrition education ; Product development ; Strategies ; Social aspects ; Case studies / Tanzania / Dodoma
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048487)
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Food security is a major challenge for smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa. Many development initiatives have attempted to enhance food security by improving agricultural production and productivity. An ex-ante impact assessment is a critical step for identifying positive and negative impacts before implementation of these agricultural innovations and it is therefore a critical component during project-/program planning. While many theoretical discourses have highlighted a strong need for active involvement of local stakeholders during project-/program planning to develop suitable solutions, in practice, local communities are still not mandatorily involved in the ex-ante impact assessment before the implementation of development initiatives. The purpose of this research is to highlight how stakeholders' and researchers' knowledge can enhance the quality of impact assessments if they are used in a complementary way. We applied two methodological impact assessment approaches (Framework for participatory impact assessment [FoPIA] and ScaIA-Food Security [ScaIA-FS]) to assess the impacts of five agricultural upgrading strategies (UPS) from a researcher's perspective as well as from a farmer's point of view in two case study villages in rural Dodoma, Tanzania. We observed that farmers and scientists had considerably different views on the impacts of the proposed agricultural UPS. While scientists focused on direct causal impact chains of the UPS, farmers considered more the indirect linkages, taking into account their complex livelihoods. Ex-ante impact assessment is a valuable tool to anticipate possible effects, and the process facilitates insights into complex socio-environmental contexts of local communities as well as structured thinking and knowledge exchange. We therefore see bi-lateral ex-ante impact assessments as a corrective step before UPS implementation, which would help to adapt solutions that will benefit local communities.
7 Graef, F.; Uckert, G. 2018. Gender determines scientists’ sustainability assessments of food-securing upgrading strategies. Land Use Policy, 79:84-93. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.07.044]
Gender ; Food security ; Scientists ; Impact assessment ; Strategies ; Participatory research ; Food systems ; Rural areas ; Environmental sustainability ; Economic aspects ; Social aspects ; Natural resources management ; Crop production ; Soil water ; Income generation ; Markets / Tanzania / Morogoro / Dodoma
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049038)
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Perception of the social, ecological and economic aspects of food security differs depending on the gender of the evaluating expert. Understanding these differences is key to developing upgrading strategies (UPS) that can help stabilise and enhance food security. This is highly relevant for research on food value chains (FVCs) in sub-Saharan Africa, where subsistence farmers are highly exposed to food insecurity. Prior to their implementation, however, the potential social, ecological and economic impacts of UPS in the target areas should be carefully assessed.
This article reports on gender-based differences in perception and evaluates these differences using ex-ante impact assessments on the social, ecological, and economic aspects of food security and 13 UPS in the Tanzanian FVC that were carried out by agricultural scientists. The work is embedded in a larger multi-disciplinary research project. We find that impact assessments differed based on the gender of experts to various extents and depended on the types of criteria assessed. Female scientists were more careful during assessment, limiting themselves more strictly to the UPS and to criteria they were most knowledgeable in. Additionally, female respondents perceived the impacts of UPS on the economic and social sustainability of food security to be lower compared to their male colleagues. We therefore conclude that perceptions of female and male agricultural experts in strategy selection and implementation should be differentiated based on their gender. This may help reduce gender-specific challenges faced by African farmers.
This article reports on gender-based differences in perception and evaluates these differences using ex-ante impact assessments on the social, ecological, and economic aspects of food security and 13 UPS in the Tanzanian FVC that were carried out by agricultural scientists. The work is embedded in a larger multi-disciplinary research project. We find that impact assessments differed based on the gender of experts to various extents and depended on the types of criteria assessed. Female scientists were more careful during assessment, limiting themselves more strictly to the UPS and to criteria they were most knowledgeable in. Additionally, female respondents perceived the impacts of UPS on the economic and social sustainability of food security to be lower compared to their male colleagues. We therefore conclude that perceptions of female and male agricultural experts in strategy selection and implementation should be differentiated based on their gender. This may help reduce gender-specific challenges faced by African farmers.
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