Upper Nyabarongo Catchment Rehabilitation Plan
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2016 UPPER NYABARONGO CATCHMENT REHABILITATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY (VERSION 1) Contents List of Figures ............................................................................................................................................... 2 List of Tables ................................................................................................................................................ 2 1. Background ........................................................................................................................................... 3 2. Rational of the document ...................................................................................................................... 3 3. Issues identified .................................................................................................................................... 3 4. Rehabilitation plan development methodology .................................................................................... 3 5. Intervention measures and implementation strategy ............................................................................. 4 5.1. Huye District ................................................................................................................................. 6 5.2. Karongi District ............................................................................................................................ 9 5.3. Muhanga District ........................................................................................................................ 14 5.4. Ngororero District ....................................................................................................................... 17 5.5. Nyamagabe District .................................................................................................................... 22 5.6. Nyanza District ........................................................................................................................... 26 5.7. Nyaruguru District ...................................................................................................................... 28 5.8. Ruhango District ......................................................................................................................... 30 5.9. Rutsiro District ............................................................................................................................ 33 6. Budget and financial framework ......................................................................................................... 34 6.1. Budget Framework ...................................................................................................................... 34 6.2. Financial Framework .................................................................................................................. 35 7. Implementation framework ................................................................................................................. 37 7.1. Stakeholders responsibilities ....................................................................................................... 39 1 | P a g e List of Figures Figure 1: Conceptual framework. ................................................................................................................. 4 Figure 2: Huye District Interventions. .......................................................................................................... 6 Figure 3: Karongi District Interventions. ...................................................................................................... 9 Figure 4: Muhanga District Interventions. .................................................................................................. 14 Figure 5: Ngororero District Interventions. ................................................................................................ 17 Figure 6: Nyamagabe District Interventions. .............................................................................................. 22 Figure 7: Nyanza District Interventions. ..................................................................................................... 26 Figure 8: Nyaruguru District Interventions. ................................................................................................ 28 Figure 9: Ruhango District Interventions. ................................................................................................... 30 Figure 10: Rutsiro District Interventions. ................................................................................................... 33 Figure 11: Diagram of the rehabilitation plan governance implementation framework. ............................ 38 List of Tables Table 1: Classification of interventions measures per implementation term. ............................................... 5 Table 2: Huye District technical implementation matrix. ............................................................................. 8 Table 3: Karongi District technical implementation matrix. ...................................................................... 13 Table 4: Muhanga District technical implementation matrix. .................................................................... 16 Table 5: Ngororero District technical implementation matrix. ................................................................... 21 Table 6: Nyamagabe District technical implementation matrix.................................................................. 26 Table 7: Nyanza District technical implementation matrix. ....................................................................... 27 Table 8: Nyaruguru District technical implementation matrix. .................................................................. 29 Table 9: Ruhango District technical implementation matrix. ..................................................................... 32 Table 10: Rutsiro District technical implementation matrix. ...................................................................... 33 Table 11: Budget distribution matrix in Rwandan Francs currency. .......................................................... 34 Table 12: Climate Funding Overview. ........................................................................................................ 37 Table 13: Climate Funding Overview Legend. ........................................................................................... 37 2 | P a g e 1. Background Following the Nyabarongo I hydropower plant official inauguration by H.E on March 5th, 2015 in the District of Muhanga, a recommendation was made to manage its upstream area in order to protect the reservoir of the hydropower plant from heavy siltation downstream. In this connection, a distribution of tasks among Governmental Institutions was made and the MINIRENA through the RNRA had the task to develop a rehabilitation plan in order to facilitate the protection of the Nyabarongo Upstream Catchment. A series of technical meetings at ministry and District levels took place during the process of developing the rehabilitation plan based on all the issues contributing to erosion identified and involving all the major stakeholders. From the recommendations of the stakeholders, incorporation in the rehabilitation plan of the ongoing activities and projects in the Nyabarongo Upstream catchment was done. A field validation of the rehabilitation plan was conducted with the concerned Districts and sectors officials in order to improve and finalize the rehabilitation plan. A governance framework and budget was also develop for the finalized rehabilitation plan. This plan is detailed in the document tilted: “Upstream Nyabarongo Catchment Rehabilitation Plan” of January 2016. 2. Rational of the document This document was develop in continuation to the existing rehabilitation plan of the Upstream Nyabarongo Catchment. An implementation strategy of the proposed intervention measures is provided in this document with proposals for financial schemes that can serve for fundraising and implementation of activities. 3. Issues identified The overall impact of soil degradation observed in the Upstream Nyabarongo catchment was the severe siltation in the Nyabarongo River. Generally, all over the catchment the observation indicated that the main reason behind the severe Nyabarongo siltation were related to the primary forest cover being replaced with agriculture under poor practice, together with unregulated highly destructive mining practices. The high sediment loads in rivers pose grave challenges to water supply, the operation of hydroelectric reservoirs and degrade aquatic ecosystems. 4. Rehabilitation plan development methodology A number of steps were applied to develop a rehabilitation plan for the Upstream Nyabarongo catchment that can be strategically implemented. The following is summarized in the conceptual framework that constituted the methodological basis of the Upstream Nyabarongo catchment Rehabilitation Plan development. 3 | P a g e Figure 1: Conceptual framework. 5. Intervention measures and implementation strategy The intervention measures developed in the rehabilitation plan were spatially scaled on hydrologic entities in this case sub catchments. However, for implementation purpose, these were lumped into administrative entities in this case Districts, to facilitate the implementation at District level. To facilitate the implementation of the interventions, these were clustered into different