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1 Taye, Meron Teferi; Dyer, E.; Charles, K. J.; Hirons, L. C. 2021. Potential predictability of the Ethiopian summer rains: understanding local variations and their implications for water management decisions. Science of the Total Environment, 755(Part 1):142604. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142604]
Rain ; Weather forecasting ; Water management ; Decision making ; Oceanic climate ; Temperature ; Climate change ; El Nino-Southern Oscillation ; Precipitation ; Spatial variation ; River basins ; Case studies / Ethiopia / Awash River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050014)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720361337/pdf?md5=58c744b3a1e31d3bceecd1661ae3f3c3&pid=1-s2.0-S0048969720361337-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050014.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050014.pdf
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Understanding the influence of large-scale oceanic and atmospheric variability on rainfall over Ethiopia has huge potential to improve seasonal forecasting and inform crucial water management decisions at local levels, where data is available at appropriate scales for decision makers. In this study, drivers of Ethiopia‘s main rainy season, July-September (JAS), are investigated using correlation analysis with sea surface temperature (SST). The analysis showed local spatial variations in the drivers of JAS rainfall. Moreover, the analysis revealed strong correlation between March to May (MAM) SST and JAS rainfall in particular regions. In addition to the influence of SSTs, we highlighted one of the mechanisms explaining the regional pattern of SST influence on Ethiopian rainfall, the East African Low-Level Jet. Moreover, examining the occurrence of large-scale phenomena provided additional information, with very strong ENSO and positive IOD events associated with drier conditions in most part of Ethiopia. A sub-national analysis, focused at a scale relevant for water managers, on the Awash basin, highlighted two distinct climate zones with different relationships to SSTs. June was not included as part of the rainy season as in some areas June is a hot, dry month between rainy seasons and in others it can be used to update sub-seasonal forecasts with lead time of one month for JAS rainfall. This highlights the importance of understanding locally relevant climate systems and ensuing sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasts are done at the appropriate scale for water management in the complex topography and climatology of Ethiopia.
2 Korzenevica, M.; Grasham, C. F.; Johnson, Z.; Gebreegzabher, A.; Mebrahtu, S.; Zerihun, Z.; Hoque, S. F.; Charles, K. J.. 2022. Negotiating spaces of marginality and independence: on women entrepreneurs within Ethiopian urbanization and water precarity. World Development, 158:105966. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105966]
Gender ; Women ; Entrepreneurship ; Marginalization ; Negotiation ; Urbanization ; Water supply ; Water access ; Social aspects ; Norms ; Empowerment ; Households / Ethiopia / Tigray / Wukro
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051332)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22001565/pdfft?md5=3ed6f395debc4aaeda69717ed11ec2de&pid=1-s2.0-S0305750X22001565-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051332.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051332.pdf
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In the context of the growth of Ethiopia’s market economy the importance of women-owned enterprises is acknowledged, with barriers to economic success outlined in a limited number of studies. However, the daily struggles and embodied experiences of low-skilled women entrepreneurs in informal economies, as well as precarious and unequal intermittent water environments, have been insufficiently understood. We analyse how women strive for and negotiate their independence through spatiality and how services, specifically water, affect their ability to develop their business spaces. The evidence derives from five studies, using mixed methods, conducted in the small town of Wukro, Ethiopia. The methods used were household surveys, a water diary, and interviews with women entrepreneurs - owners of coffee, alcohol, and hair salons businesses. Our study finds that they develop their businesses through the simultaneous presence of various, multilevel spaces of marginality/paradoxical spaces and articulation of independence as control over one’s business and body. Unlike the positive term ‘empowerment’, the lens of negotiating ‘independence’ integrates spaces of conflicting subjectivities, where marginality and resistance, suffering and claimed control, interpellation, and re-construction of own identities are simultaneously present. We suggest that water struggles are analysed not only through the evaluation of water shortages and unequal geographical sectorization but also through the perspective of ‘water precarity’ (Sultana, 2020) as in our study it was a water-induced lack of control over businesses and daily lives that caused the most suffering. We highlight that this multidimensional approach is pivotal in supporting women’s entrepreneurship and gender equality.
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