Sustainable Highland Rivers Management in Ethiopia
Abstract
Ethiopian highlands are sources of water for all people in the country and contribute a significant water budget for all neighboring countries. The highlands additionally sustain the livelihood of nearly 90% of the total population in an area covering over 45% of the country. Over the past couple of decades, due to various development activities in these highlands, the water quality and quantity of the rivers is showing signs of strong deterioration. Unless some mitigating actions are taken in the near future the problem could be more deleterious for the aquatic system and hence for the dependent population. One way of insuring a healthy aquatic environment is by developing efficient monitoring systems to inform potential decision-makers. Universities and research institutes can be actively engaged in providing reliable monitoring tools in the area of water resources and management. The LARIMA project therefore aims at building human capacity to develop reliable and advanced monitoring tools to assess the health of surface water resources, generate knowledge for understanding the socio-economic development and aquatic ecosystem services, and strengthen participatory management practices in the sphere of aquatic resources in Ethiopia. In addition, this project establishes and strengthens linkages and collaborations in research and education among national partners and between local and European institutions.
keywords Capacity building river ecology benthic invertebrates river catchment
Publikationen
LARIMA - a contribution to re-establish freshwater health and biodiversity?
Autoren: Graf, W; Drexler, S-S; Hartmann, A Jahr: 2022
Chapter in collected volumes
Awareness raising and capacity building as a key role for further development
Autoren: Lakew, A; Drexler, S-S Jahr: 2022
Chapter in collected volumes
Project staff
Wolfram Graf
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wolfram Graf
wolfram.graf@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81221
Project Leader
01.08.2015 - 31.07.2019
Anne Hartmann
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Anne Hartmann
anne.hartmann@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81208
Project Staff
01.08.2015 - 31.07.2019
Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber
ask@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81225
Project Staff
01.08.2015 - 31.07.2019
Ilse Schwarzinger
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Ilse Schwarzinger
ilse.schwarzinger@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-10118
Project Staff
01.08.2015 - 29.03.2017
Herwig Waidbacher
Ao.Univ.Prof.i.R. Dr.phil. Herwig Waidbacher
herwig.waidbacher@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81222
Project Staff
01.08.2015 - 31.07.2019
BOKU partners
External partners
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, NFLARR
Dr. Aschalew Lakew
partner
Ambo University
none
partner