Risk Assessment
Community Water Resources & Climate Risk
Resilience programming separated irrigation investments from domestic water access. The program needed an integrated vulnerability lens at community scale.
Challenge
Droughts and erratic rainfall threatened farm households with limited water resource access.
Solution
Household surveys and econometric modeling of resilience outcomes linked to water availability.
Result
Strategies integrating water management into agricultural planning and resilience programming.
Overview
Resilience programming separated irrigation investments from domestic water access. The program needed an integrated vulnerability lens at community scale.
Methodology
- Seasonal water-point audits, contingent valuation on coping bundles, and spatial joins to gridded climate projections.
- Panel estimation of nutrition and labor outcomes conditional on shared water governance rules.
Outcomes
- Joint agriculture–WASH investment map for three regions.
- M&E indicators adopted in the resilience project’s mid-term review.
Partners
- UNDP
- District assemblies
- Community water boards