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IRD Swaziland Launches Climate Change Project
IRD Swaziland successfully handed over its completed project and launched the three-year follow-on program, Mitigation of the Negative Impact of Climate Change in Swaziland, February 27. The event brought together key government and development stakeholders in the food security and WASH sectors. IRD was honored to have US ambassador to Swaziland Makila James, M... more
Filed Under: Food & Agriculture, Water, Women & Gender, Africa, Swaziland
Refugee Herdsman Becomes a Settled Farmer
MANDJOU, Cameroon – Saliou Adamou, 55, fled to Cameroon from unrest in the Central Africa Republic in 2005. With four wives and 15 children, the nomadic herdsman was hard pressed to take care of his family, having lost all of his 500 cows. For his first three years as a refugee, Adamou relied entirely on monthly food rations from the World Food Program to feed his family... more
Filed Under: Food & Agriculture, Capacity Building, Relief to Development, Water, Africa, Cameroon
Building Resilience in Drought-Affected Communities
During the 2010–11 drought, Da’ud lost all his livestock – his main household assets. He couldn’t cultivate his land due to lack of funds to remove the invasive shrub, Prosopips Juliaflora (which requires tractors to eradicate). Nor could he afford the soaring price of fuel to operate the irrigation pump. So he became a day-laborer in Dollo-Bay, loading and unloading tru... more
Filed Under: Emergency Response, Food & Agriculture, Relief to Development, Water, Africa, Ethiopia
Improving Water Services in Baghdad
ISTIQLAL, Baghdad – It was challenging enough to provide potable water to all 15,000 residents of the Sheikh Sa’ad neighborhood in Baghdad’s Istiqlal district. Making matters worse, for as long as anyone could remember, the single water production unit serving these residents had functioned at a fraction of its capacity—generating just 13,000 gallons per hour instead of... more
Filed Under: Civil Society, Conflict Mitigation, Capacity Building, Water, Middle East & North Africa, Iraq
Goodbye Cholera, Hello Clean Water
CHITUNGWIZA, Zimbabwe – Imagine having 1,600 students in a school and not having water – not even a single drop – to either drink or use for sanitary purposes. This is exactly the challenge that Claude Matsekeza, headmaster at Tasimukira Primary School faced daily before International Relief and Development (IRD) installed a rain water harvesting system (RWHS) at his sc... more
Filed Under: Building Infrastructure, Health & Hygiene, Education, Water, Africa, Zimbabwe