Adaptive Water Governance and Climate Change Resilience among Rural Communities in Kilosa District, Tanzania
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2023-05-21
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Research and Poverty Alleviation
Abstract
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.
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Climate change, adaptive governance, adaptive water governance, Tanzania
Citation
Theodory, T.F. & Massoi, L (2023). Adaptive Water Governance and Climate Change Resilience among Rural Communities in Kilosa District, Tanzania. REPOA, Dar es Salaam.