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    Adaptive Water Governance and Climate Change Resilience among Rural Communities in Kilosa District, Tanzania
    (Research and Poverty Alleviation, 2023-05-21) Theodory, Theobald F.; Massoi, Lucy
    While climate change and its associated impacts on water resources continue to take their toll across the globe, rural communities in Tanzania are increasingly facing water related problems, such as access to clean and safe water as well as water shortage. Effective governance is needed to sustainably respond to changes in water resource availability and to advance community resilience to the impacts of climate change. This study assessed adaptive water governance and climate change resilience among farmers and pastoral communities in Parakuyo and Mabwerebwere Wards, Kilosa District. This study adopted a cross-sectional research design, whereas both qualitative and quantitative data collection methods were applied. About 10% of the total households per selected village were chosen to form the sample size for this study. Thus, 174 households were selected by the researchers for household questionnaires. The results indicate that climate change is not a new phenomenon in the study area. Rural communities have lived with it and observed extreme climatic events such as reduced precipitations, long drought seasons and shifting of seasons, to mention a few. Rural communities in Parakuyo and Mabwerebwere Wards enhance their climate change resilience through adaptive water governance. Adaptive governance operates in such a way that there is great cooperation between actors in governing water resources, which contributes to climate change resilience. This study recommends programmes that focus on capacitating rural communities with climate change knowledge to enhance their resilience to climate change. Furthermore, this study recommends an integration of informal institutions on water resources governance to complement government efforts in managing water resources.