Project Report supported by Japan Water Forum Fund 2012

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1 Project Report supported by Japan Water Forum Fund 2012 Summary (within 2 pages) The outline of your project should be summarized here and the below stated items should be included, within max 2 pages. 1. Name of the organization: Ojope Farmers and Rural Dwellers Development Association 2. Country: Nigeria 3. Name of the project: Training, procurement and installation of 3nos plastic water tank for improved vegetable production using drip irrigation system in Ofoke, Nigeria 4. Project time-period: December to March, Description of the water issues/ objectives of your activities (within 250 words): Ojope is a farming community in Apa LGA, Benue State Nigeria, the people are engaged in rainfed farming, because they lack the resources and technology to engage in irrigation farming. Dependence on rainfed farming limits them to seasonal and one source of income which is crop farming. Their desire to engage in alternative income generation through irrigation farming is limited by lack of water and the technology to harvest and use water for farming and processing of crop produce. The water course and brooks in the community are seasonal and dries up very quickly after the stoppage of the rain. The project therefore intends to procure and install plastic water tanks to harvest rainwater for drip irrigation to be used for tree nursery and vegetable crop farming. The project objective is to create awareness and build the capacity of the people on water management through rain water harvesting for domestic and farming use; improve food security and income generation due to increase yield as a result of the harvested rain water used for off season drip irrigation farming; improved on-farm and domestic sanitation/hygiene from the use of the harvested rainwater 6. Description of your activities with the JWF Fund (within 500 words): The JWF fund was used as follows Community mobilization, awareness creation and sensitization activities on water management: 65nos community members with representative of men, women, youth and children attended the awareness creation and sensitization workshop on 2 occasions namely, 18 th December, 2012 and 4 th January, The groups were briefly introduced to the need for water harvesting and its importance to rural people both for farming and domestic use. OFRDDA engaged in community need assessment: the project took the community people through a need assessment process as it relates to socio-economic infrastructure and the need for water came second only to road in terms of community preference. Procurement of materials for construction of water harvester: 2nos plastic tanks of 2500 litres each to give a total of 5000 litres were procured & taken to the farm site. 2nos bundles of corrugated iron sheets, 30nos of 2 by 2 by 12feet, 15nos of 2 by4 by12, 10nos of 4 by4 by 7 feet timbers, 5 pound each of 2 /3 /4 /5 /zinc nails, & 3nos labourers were procured to site A shelter was constructed and water channels made with corrugated iron sheet to channel rain water into the plastic water tanks. The job took the labourers 2 man days of work.

2 Materials for training: the manual used for training the farmers were downloaded from the internet and there include- Rain water harvesting for drinking in rural area (A case study on three villages of Paikgacha Thana in Khulna District) Md. Sohel Rana1 Town Planner Meherpur Municipality (Pourashva), Promoting Rainwater Harvesting in the Urban Settings of Africa Integrated Management of Urban Water Buffering: From Research to Implementation P r e s e n t e d B y : Te k a l i g n Ts i g e UNHABITAT. Rainwater harvesting for crops by PACE New ideas for rainwater harvesting at home By Murray Burt DFID WASH Programme Manager PO Box Nairobi Kenya murray.burt@tearfund.org. 65nos rural dwellers and farmers attended training workshops and were trained on water harvesting and irrigation farming: the water for demonstrating rainwater harvesting and drip irrigation was fetched by women into the tanks from a nearby brook. The reason is that this was not the rainy season (April - October). The Project started in December to March (dry season). Rain water harvesting was however simulated as stated above. The farmers were trained in two batches on January 21 st, 2013 and February 13 th, The number of direct beneficiaries of your project: 40nos farming households would be direct beneficiary of the project, while the indirect beneficiaries are 240 members of the aforementioned households including women and children. Project Description (within 5 pages) A detailed description of your project should be reported here and the below stated items should be included, within max 5 pages. 1. Name of the organization: Ojope Farmers and Rural Dwellers Development Association 2. Country: Nigeria 3. Area: Ofoke Ojope, Apa LGA Benue State Nigeria 4. Details of the Project-site: Address of the site as well as maps are required if possible. Map of Nigeria with Benue State Inserted in Red: Benue State is found in the north central region of Nigeria. The capital city Makurdi is 310km by road from Abuja FCT. From Makurdi to Otukpo is 100km and Otukpo to Ugbokpo (capital of Apa LGA is 48 Km) and from Ugbokpo to ofoke project site is 14km on an easrthen seasonal road. The project site is therefore 472km from Abuja by tarred road. 5. Project time-period: January to March, Project manager: Name: Samuel Abu Ameh Title: Program director amehehi@yahoo.co.uk Phone: Fax:

3 7. Name of the project or activity: Training, procurement and installation of 3nos plastic water tank for improved vegetable production using drip irrigation system in Ofoke, Nigeria 8. Description of the water issues/ objectives of your projects or activities: Ojope is a farming community in Apa LGA, Benue State Nigeria, the people are engaged in rainfed farming, because they lack the resources and technology to engage in irrigation farming. Dependence on rainfed farming limits them to seasonal and one source of income which is crop farming. Their desire to engage in alternative income generation through irrigation farming is limited by lack of water and the technology to harvest and use water for farming and processing of crop produce. The water course and brooks in the community are seasonal and dries up very quickly after the stoppage of the rain. The project therefore intends to procure and install plastic water tanks to harvest rainwater for drip irrigation to be used for tree nursery and vegetable crop farming. The project objective is to create awareness and build the capacity of the people on water management through rain water harvesting for domestic and farming use; improve food security and income generation due to increase yield as a result of the harvested rain water used for off season drip irrigation farming; improved on-farm and domestic sanitation/hygiene from the use of the harvested rainwater 9. Description of your activities with the JWF Fund: Community mobilization, awareness creation and sensitization activities on water management: 65nos community members with representative of men, women, youth and children attended the awareness creation and sensitization workshop on 2 occasions namely, 18 th December, 2012 and 4 th January, The groups were briefly introduced to the need for water harvesting and its importance to rural people both for farming and domestic use. OFRDDA engaged in community need assessment: in the course of one of the awareness creation workshop the project team took the community people through a need assessment process as it relates to socio-economic infrastructure and the need for water came second only to road in terms of community preference. Procurement of materials for construction of water harvester: 2nos plastic tanks of 2500 litres each to give a total of 5000 litres were procured & taken to the farm site. 2nos bundles of corrugated iron sheets, 30nos of 2 by 2 by 12feet, 15nos of 2 by4 by12, 10nos of 4 by4 by 7 feet timbers, 5 pound each of 2 /3 /4 /5 /zinc nails, & 3nos labourers were procured to site A shelter was constructed and water channels made with corrugated iron sheet to channel rain water into the plastic water tanks. The job took the labourers 2 man days of work. Materials for training: the manual used for training the farmers were downloaded from the internet and there include- Rain water harvesting for drinking in rural area (A case study on three villages of Paikgacha Thana in Khulna District) Md. Sohel Rana1 Town Planner Meherpur Municipality (Pourashva), rana_urp@yahoo.com, Promoting Rainwater Harvesting in the Urban Settings of Africa Integrated Management of Urban Water Buffering: From Research to Implementation P r e s e n t e d B y : Te k a l i g n Ts i g e UNHABITAT. Rainwater harvesting for crops by PACE New ideas for rainwater harvesting at home By Murray Burt DFID WASH Programme Manager PO Box Nairobi Kenya murray.burt@tearfund.org.

4 65nos rural dwellers and farmers were in attendance at the training workshops and trained on water harvesting and irrigation farming: the water for demonstrating rainwater harvesting and drip irrigation was fetched by women into the tanks from a nearby brook. The reason is that this was not the rainy season (April - October). The Project started in December to March (dry season). Rain water harvesting was however simulated as stated above. The farmers were trained in two batches on January 21 st, 2013 and February 13 th, Involved stakeholders: Involvement of relevant stakeholders such as Facilitators from Ojope Farmers and Rural Dwellers Development Association (OFRDDA)/ Community Self Help Groups (men/women/children) and the local government agricultural department right from the beginning help greatly with variety of views, ideas and suggestions that will help to attain the goal of sustainability. The self-help groups in particular are good organizations for promoting sustainable rainwater harvesting. For example, involving the local governments ensured that the projects created collaboration between the self-help groups and the local government authorities that will continue to exist and ensure that the self-help groups are technically supported. 11. Methodology of your projects or activities: Lecture/ participatory learning/discussion/ brainstorming/ hand-on practical demonstration 12. The number of direct beneficiaries of your projects or activities: 40nos farming households would be direct beneficiary of the project, while the indirect beneficiaries are 240 including women and children 13. Achieved outcomes of your projects or activities: *The evaluation of the project must be as quantitative as possible, such as the decrease in BOD/COD concentration, the distance of beach cleaned, the number of water supply or sanitation facilities provided, the number of people educated and so on. The project was undertaken during the dry season and as such we did not have the opportunity to experience actual water harvesting. However from experience and our explanation the people knowing what water harvesting is, participated in all our activities with the following outcomes. 20 male adult, 20 female adult, 15 children and 10 youths participated in all the workshop session 2nos plastic container with capacity for 2500litres each was installed to collect 5000 litres of water from a 2 bundle corrugated iron sheet shelter. 4 nos awareness creation and training workshops held with 65 person in attendance (consisting of male, female and children) 14. Pictures and questionnaires (at least 5 in the report. Additional ones compile with the report should be sent separately, in JPEG format) <e.g. Construction activities of wells, rain water harvesting tanks, etc. >

5 A. Site photographs before project commencement showing men at the site and women fetching water from a brook to the project site B. Site photographs during the course of construction of the Water harvester project C. Site photographs at the completion of the water harvester project <e.g. Educational activities such as holding workshops, symposiums, etc> A. Site photographs of your educational activities (at least 3 pictures) B. Questionnaires for the participants In the course of the training and project activities, the facilitators designed a checklist for participatory need assessment for the community. Checklist question i. What are the uses of water in the community- answers: use for drinking, cooking, washing, farming, processing of agro-produce, use for building ii. Where do you get water from- answer: river, shallow well on river beds, brooks and rain water iii. How permanent are this water sources-answer: there are all seasonal except the ochekwu stream which is perennial iv. What is the distance of the water source from the community- answer: ochekwu stream is between 300metres to 1km at some points. How fare is the permanent stream from the farm-answer: 4km to 7km at some points. v. Where do you get water from for on farm use- answer seasonal brooks and rainwater gutter

6 run-off. What do you use water for on the farm-answer: to process farm produce, drink, apply agro-chemical, irrigate tree nursery and vegetable vi. Have you heard of rainwater harvesting-answer: some chorus YES while others chorus NO! vii. When you collect and store rain water from running gutter, slope, rooftop and or trees either in synthetic containers and or soil it is called water harvesting. How do you collect rain water for domestic or farm use-answer: from roof top, from holes dung along slopy water course. viii. Why is it that you do not dig water wells on your farm-answer it is too expensive/it does not yield water on a permanent basis ix. Do you desire to own a water harvesting facility- answer: YES x. Do you desire to receive training on water harvesting and water management for irrigation and domestic purposes-answer YES xi. Do you what to have water self-help groups and if you do how would you establish and manage a pooled water resources 15. Conclusion, such as lessons learned, remaining issues for future activities. Lessons learned and Challenges Increased collaboration with local government structures; access to vegetable income generating farming initiatives for both the beneficiaries and the trainees; community mobilization, sensitization and awareness raising has been done by the community groups and is therefore considered effective than being done by a third party actors; involvement of communities in project planning and implementation enables them to control project outcome; lower cost of construction compared to boreholes enable even the marginalized groups to afford them Challenges- the project commenced during the dry season and therefore we could not experience an actual water harvesting scenario; it is hoped that self-help group members are committed to the group to ensure continuity of skill development and replication; capacity of the self-help groups to mobilize funds is still low as a result the skills may remain dormant and are eventually forgotten. 16. Table of actual expenditures of your project/ activity with the JWF Fund. *Please note that no additional grants will be paid in case of fund shortage. Item Content Unit cost Quantity Amount USD NGN litres of plastic tank Bundle of corrugated iron sheet x2 x12ft timber x4 x12ft timber x4 x7ft wooden pole nail 200 5pwt nail 200 5pwt nail 200 5pwt

7 9 5 nail 200 5pwt Zinc nail pkt Solignum wood treatment litres chemical Transport of materials to site 72km Lump sum from point of purchase Stationeries for printing, photocopy nos & cost of internet facility pp manual 14 Bank charges Total Amount *Please attach all the receipt which you used for your project *The report must be written in English. *This file shows the basic format of the project report. However, it may be changed depending on the characteristics of each project. * The entire report should not be more than 8 pages, including pictures, figures and tables.