TREE PLANTING FOR WATERSHEDS

The Integrated Watershed Management Approach

A Green Belt Movement Experience

OVERALL OBJECTIVE

To restore the degraded watersheds

of key water catchments / forest ecosystems

so as to improve their functions

and improve the livelihood of the local communities

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

• To rehabilitate degraded watersheds by replanting local species. This will continue to maintain hydrology, the soil, carbon sequestration and the biodiversity of the forest.

• To support and diversify, in a sustainable manner, the sources of income of the neighbouring population of the forest by generating income from tree planting activities and promoting an alternative and profitable use of the forest.

• To restore habitats for local biodiversity and promote ecologically sound community initiatives.

THE FIVE MAJOR WATER TOWERS IN KENYA

WHAT IS A WATERSHED?

A region or area of land where all of the water on it ultimately drains to a particular watercourse or body of water.

If you track a drop of water that falls anywhere on the watershed, it will flow out through the same watercourse eventually.

HEALTHY INDIGENOUS FOREST IN MT. KENYA

HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE

FOREST DESTRUCTION

Source: UNEP

THE SHAMBA SYSTEM: FARMING IN THE FOREST

SOIL EROSION

Charcoal Burning

Consequences: Search for Water

Logging

THE GREEN BELT MOVEMENT FOCUS

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A values-driven society of people who consciously work for continued improvement of their livelihoods and a greener, cleaner world

Effective execution of watershed-based tree

planting and forest restoration and conservation

We strive for better environmental management, community empowerment, and livelihood improvement using tree-planting as an entry point

2-4 Years

12-18Months

Begin to implement watershed approach

Green Belt Movement’s strategic plan

5+ Years

Robust internal systems and structures to ensure

program integrity

National and international campaigns, communications

and advocacy

Conduct capacity development and training program

Identify sites for centralized GBM tree nurseries for in-forest tree

planting sites

Develop standardized training modules and train field staff to deliver a broader range of CEE trainings to community groups

Operationalize departmental systems (admin, programs, HR,

finance, IT, etc)

Develop policies and procedures manuals

Develop performance management system

Review organizational structure

Create management structure for delivery of advocacy – national and

international

Engage national stakeholders to influence environmental

policy/legislation

Document and share linkages between policy and practice

Roll out across GBM network and partners a CEE curriculum on climate change mitigation and

adaptationFoster and sustain global campaign

messaging on forests, tree planting, UN role, and Mottainai

WHY PRIORITY WATERSHEDS

GBM HAS BEEN ENGAGING COMMUNITIES

IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY TO PLANT TREES IN AND AROUND THE WATER CATCHMENTS.CURRENTLY THE FOCUS IS ON CRITICAL

WATERSHEDS

GRASSROOT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

TREE NURSERY ESTABLISHMENT AND MANAGEMENT

MASSIVE PRODUCTION OF SEEDLINGS

COMMUNITY TREE PLANTING

REHABILITATION SITE

COMMUNITY BASED WATER MONITORING IN UPPER TANA

The Green Belt Movement has been doing environmental conservation, community empowerment and livelihood improvement for over 31 years.

To assess and demonstrate the impact of environmental conservation GBM in partnership with GWW is empowering communities to be able to monitor water resources at the grassroots.

The overall goal is to make communities comfortable to be able to take good samples and get credible data. This initiative demonstrates the relationship between flow and quality/purity of rivers and springs and tree planting in the watersheds.

BACTERIOLOGICAL MONITORING SUPPLIES

Coliscan Easygel Medium

Petri DishesSterile Pipette

Thermometer

Incubator

Number of E. coli per 100 mLSTOP! >600 relatively unsafe for human contact

CAUTION! 200-600 increasing risk for human illness

GO! <200 relatively safe for human contact

GWW Standards Used for Bacteriological Monitoring

BAMBOO BIOMASS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROJECT

• GBM IS PROMOTING CLEAN ENERGY AND CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN TO DO BUSINESS.

• THIS PROJECT FEATURED IN THE 24 HOUR CLIMATE REALITY

Zones of a River System

Freshwater Systems and Biodiversity Change with Habitat

Size, slope, substrate

PAYMENT FOR ECOSYSTEM (PES)

THANK YOU

THE LEGACY OF THE LATE PROF. WANGARI MAATHAI LIVES ON