Financing: Use Cash for Assets Program specifically for youth that carry out watershed mapping and infrastructure and conservation works.

Financing: Use Cash for Assets Program for watershed infrastructure and conservation works

Institutional Capacity Building: Provide technical training and tools on how to conduct watershed assessment, prioritize watershed works based on community needs, plan infrastructure and conservation works, and manage watershed resources using community governance structures. Integrate indigenous knowledge and practices where appropriate. Engage Committees to plan for and mitigate the impact of shocks/stressors such as drought, water shortage, human-wildlife conflict, and floods. Use this opportunity to demonstrate interconnectedness of livelihoods, health and nutrition to water availability, water and soil quality and natural resource management. Provide examples of how taking care of the watershed, eliminating open defecation, managing grazing land, forestry, and other natural resources will add to long term livelihood, health and nutrition of households and the community as a whole.

Community Governance: Define micro-catchment areas and establish Watershed Cluster Steering Committees at the micro-catchment level, working with Committees

Infrastructure: Rehabilitate selected boreholes and dams that are damaged based on assessment conducted (see separate intervention), working with Water Point Committees and using Cash for Assets Program. Based on assessment, integrate solar power for identified high-yielding boreholes as per design specifications. Consider branding assets and documents such as infrastructure, training materials, and plans in a way that highlights the community as a whole, recognizing community committees involved and active community members.

Infrastructure: Construct new boreholes and dams in selected locations based on assessment conducted (see separate intervention), working with Water Point Committees and using Cash for Assets Program. Based on assessment, integrate solar power for identified high-yielding boreholes as per design specifications. Consider branding assets and documents such as infrastructure, training materials, and plans in a way that highlights the community as a whole, recognizing community committees involved and active community members.

Infrastructure: Conduct Watershed Assessment to determine where and how to focus activities including where to locate new boreholes and which existing, non-working boreholes should be rehabilitated based on identified criteria. Include identification of which boreholes may be high-yielding and could utilize photovoltaic pump system/solar power, design specifications for location of solar panels, design specifications for domestic use, livestock watering, and irrigation purposes. Engage Committees and Water Point Committees in assessment and design discussions. Ensure integration with Participatory Capacity Vulnerability Assessment that identifies problems, resilience capacities and possible impacts from shocks and stressors such as drought, water shortage, fire, human-wildlife conflict, and livestock diseases. Consider branding assets and documents such as infrastructure, training materials, and plans in a way that highlights the community as a whole, recognizing community committees involved and active community members.

Products and Technology: Engage public and private sector stakeholders, such as local shopkeepers for watershed supplies, RDCs, to determine shared priorities and mobilize resources using Watershed Cluster Steering Committees as the convener for watershed mapping and watershed management plans in the community.

Advocacy: Support traditional leaders and ward/district representatives during Fair Days and other community events to recognize Watershed Cluster Steering Committees and the community members who have worked to plan and implement watershed infrastructure and conservation works, including specific recognition of women and youth. Allow traditional leaders to provide a unifying message to the community about cultural values and respect for watershed as a shared community resource, social cohesion and use of indigenous knowledge for watershed management. use this opportunity to demonstrate interconnectedness of livelihoods, health and nutrition to water availability, water and soil quality and natural resource management. Provide examples of how taking care of the watershed, eliminating open defecation, managing grazing land, forestry, and other natural resources will add to long term livelihood, health and nutrition of households and the community as a whole.

Collective Engagement: Work with traditional leaders and other male community leaders to promote the voices of women, youth and marginalized groups in the watershed planning, implementation and monitoring process. Embed a strong message of community cohesion through sustainable and equitable water use for household domestic use, livestock watering and irrigation purposes. Highlight examples of community members demonstrating sustainable and equitable water use.

Skills Building: Train youth technicians on how to carry out watershed mapping; use this opportunity to demonstrate interconnectedness of livelihoods, health and nutrition to water availability, water and soil quality and natural resource management. Provide examples of how taking care of the watershed, eliminating open defecation, managing grazing land, forestry, and other natural resources will add to long term livelihood, health and nutrition of households and the community as a whole.

Skills Building: Create a youth forum to talk about the importance of participating in community activities such as watershed management, planning and implementation, grazing land management and sustainable forest management. Describe the benefits they may receive from participating in community activities in terms of social capital, and lay out possible youth leadership opportunities and youth roles in watershed mapping, and implementing and monitoring of watershed resources. Discuss ways to resolve conflicts that may arise.