REPUBLIC OF RWANDA Ministry of Environment Muvumba Catchment Management Plan (2018-2024) Kigali, October 2018 Acknowledgment We express our sincere gratitude to the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN) through Water for Growth Program for technical and financial supports of Muvumba Catchment management plan. We also take this opportunity to thank the members of Technical Focal Group, members of steering committee of the program, members of Catchment Task Force and staff of Nyagatare, Gicumbi, and Gatsibo Districts who greatly contributed to the formulation of this plan. We would like to thank the local Authorities for their facilitations and cooperation; we would like to thank the friendship for accepting nothing less than excellence from the teams. Last but not the least; our appreciation goes to the staff of Ministries and the IWRM Department for supporting the Catchment Planning process throughout writing this final document which will be used for future water resources management. Content Chapter Title Page List of Abbreviations viii Executive Summary 1 1. Introduction 15 1.1 The integrated catchment planning process ______________________________________ 15 1.2 Institutional embedding ______________________________________________________ 16 1.3 Joint catchment plan implementation ___________________________________________ 17 1.4 Plan structure ______________________________________________________________ 18 2. Integrated situation analysis 19 2.1 Catchment characteristics ____________________________________________________ 19 2.1.1 Physiography ______________________________________________________________ 19 2.1.2 Socio-economic profile ______________________________________________________ 26 2.2 Catchment issues and opportunities ____________________________________________ 31 2.2.1 Issues ____________________________________________________________________ 31 2.2.2 Opportunities ______________________________________________________________ 35 3. Vision and objectives 36 3.1 Catchment vision and objectives _______________________________________________ 36 3.1.1 Vision and objectives development process ______________________________________ 36 3.1.2 Vision statement ___________________________________________________________ 36 3.1.3 Overall objective and specific objectives _________________________________________ 36 3.2 Comparing different plan alternatives ___________________________________________ 38 4. Programme of Measures (PoM) 42 4.1 Enabling environment _______________________________________________________ 42 4.1.1 Catchment restoration _______________________________________________________ 42 4.1.2 Water allocation ___________________________________________________________ 51 4.1.3 Knowledge management _____________________________________________________ 57 4.2 PoM 2018-2024 development process __________________________________________ 58 4.3 Project relevance screening (filter 1) ____________________________________________ 59 4.4 DPSIR analysis (filter 2) ______________________________________________________ 60 4.5 IWRM packages (filter 3) _____________________________________________________ 62 4.6 Multi-Criteria Analysis (filter 4) ________________________________________________ 68 4.7 Highlights of Programme of Measures __________________________________________ 69 5. Implementation arrangements 81 5.1 Sector and agency planning ___________________________________________________ 81 5.2 Coordinated implementation _________________________________________________ 82 i Muvumba Catchment Management Plan (2018-2024) 5.3 Looking ahead – Catchment Plan 2024-2030 _____________________________________ 83 6. Intervention logic and Monitoring & Evaluation 84 Reference list 86 Package management ________________________________________________________________ 264 Funding and budget estimates _________________________________________________________ 264 Annexes Annex 1. The Water for Growth Rwanda Programme 91 Annex 2. Glossary of terms 93 Annex 3. Catchment Atlas 99 Annex 4. Consistency alignment 122 4.1 Introduction consistency alignment ___________________________________________ 122 4.2 Consistency analysis of policies, legislation and regulation _________________________ 122 4.2.1 Key strengths of existing policy instruments _____________________________________ 123 4.2.2 Key weaknesses of existing policy instruments ___________________________________ 124 4.2.3 Effective Catchment Plan implementation ______________________________________ 125 4.3 Vision 2020, Vision 2050, 7YGP and NST1 _______________________________________ 125 4.3.1 Aspirations of Vision 2050 ___________________________________________________ 126 4.3.2 The 7-year Government plan (NST1) ___________________________________________ 127 4.4 Sector Strategic Plans (SSPs) _________________________________________________ 130 4.5 Cross-cutting area alignment _________________________________________________ 142 4.5.1 Gender __________________________________________________________________ 142 4.5.2 Environment and climate change _____________________________________________ 146 4.5.3 Other cross-cutting areas ____________________________________________________ 147 4.6 District Development Strategies (DDSs) ________________________________________ 151 4.6.1 DDS highlights ____________________________________________________________ 151 Annex 5. NWRMP MUV observations and conclusions 154 Annex 6. Infrastructure, institutional and knowledge measures 157 Annex 7. SEA process report 177 7.1 SEA methodology __________________________________________________________ 177 7.2 SEA step results ___________________________________________________________ 181 7.3 Outputs summary of IWRM/SEA process _______________________________________ 196 7.4 Conclusions and lessons learned from IWRM/SEA process__________________________ 206 Annex 8. SDGs and catchment planning 208 8.1 Catchment planning and alignment to SDGs _____________________________________ 208 8.2 Priority SDGs key messages __________________________________________________ 211 Annex 9. Water balance and allocation modelling 213 9.1 Baseline and alternative development modelling _________________________________ 213 ii Muvumba Catchment Management Plan (2018-2024) 9.2 CP 2018-2024 WEAP models _________________________________________________ 213 9.3 Water allocation plan_______________________________________________________ 218 Annex 10. Gender mainstreaming guidelines 226 Annex 11. Rwanda’s INDC on climate change 236 Annex 12. MCA methodology 245 Annex 13. Concept notes of IWRM packages 250 Annex 14. Concept notes of typical CPIPs 266 14.1 Forestry and agroforestry ___________________________________________________ 266 Mining 269 14.2 Incentives for environmental services __________________________________________ 270 14.3 Rainwater harvesting _______________________________________________________ 272 14.4 Small-scale irrigation _______________________________________________________ 275 Annex 15. Stakeholder analysis and engagement plan 277 15.1 Stakeholder analysis _______________________________________________________ 277 15.2 Stakeholder engagement plan ________________________________________________ 278 4GR CROM DSS 284 Tables Table 1: Green water balance entire catchment, baseline .......................................................................... 24 Table 2: Blue water balance entire catchment, baseline ............................................................................. 24 Table 3: Blue water balance Warufu sub-catchment, baseline ................................................................... 25 Table 4: Blue water balance, Mulindi sub-catchment, baseline .................................................................. 25 Table 5: Blue water balance, Ngoma sub-catchment, baseline ................................................................... 25 Table 6: Blue water balance, Upper Muvumba sub-catchment, baseline ................................................... 25 Table 7: Blue water balance, Downstream Muvumba sub-catchment, baseline ........................................ 25 Table 8: Economic drivers in Muvumba sub-catchments ............................................................................ 28 Table 9: Population % identified as poor and extreme poor for the Muvumba catchment (EICV4) ........... 29 Table 10: Land use / land cover classification Muvumba (W4GR, 2018) ..................................................... 30 Table 11: Muvumba catchment Drivers, Pressures, States and Impacts ..................................................... 34 Table 12: Final catchment plan alternatives ................................................................................................ 41 Table 13: Budget estimation for landscape restoration in Ngoma sub catchment ..................................... 47 Table 14: Budget estimation for Drought Management to improve access to water for supporting livestock and agriculture value chains in Muvumba upper and down steam subcatchments ................................... 47 Table 15: Budget estimation for supporting improvements in sustainable water and landscape management (floods and sediments mitigation) through developing the tea and forestry value chains in Mulindi ......................................................................................................................................................... 48 Table 16: W4GR CROM classification of catchment restoration