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The KYB Project's goal, objectives and expected results

The goal of the Project is the equitable and sustainable use of land and water resources of the Komadugu Yobe Basin (KYB) through improved management. The Project started with a purpose of a first phase of contributing to this long-term goal by helping to establish a framework for broad-based and informed decision-making process based on agreed principles for equitable use and sustainable management of the KYB. The Project is using Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) approaches that incorporate ecosystem concepts to develop and coordinate solutions in the basin.

The specific objectives set for the Phase I of the Project were as follows:

• To build decision-support knowledge base so that water management options and other resources management decisions are taken on the basis of up-to-date information on water audit, socio-economic and ecological conditions



• To help establish a legal and policy enabling environment through the adoption and implementation of a water charter and supporting basin-level consultation and coordination mechanisms



• To pilot-test improved water management field interventions so that efficient and sustainable water utilisation techniques and approaches are demonstrated in downstream areas



• To develop a catchment management plan using participatory approaches and on the basis of the results of knowledge, policy and pilot activity components of the Project. This will also build on the existing draft Catchment Management Plan



• To ensure that the Project is effectively managed, monitored and evaluated, so that lessons on managing river basins are learned and disseminated to benefit similar initiatives

The Project was designed and expected to deliver the following key outcomes and/or outputs of the Phase I:

• Improved understanding of the dynamics of water demand and supply in the basin and the socio-economic and ecological condition of the people and other resources;



• The water management institutions in the basin states and/or countries provide an enabling legal and policy environment that supports the institutionalization and implementation of the agreed basin charter;



• Reliable efficient and sustainable water utilization techniques and approaches are available for dissemination among the stakeholders and interest groups;



• A Catchment Management Plan that incorporates an ecosystem approach to basin management agreed by most stakeholders and interest groups; and



• Project effectively managed, monitored and evaluated and lessons learned and disseminated.

The Project is now about starting a second phase with a purpose of providing institutional strengthening support for the successful implementation of the basin's Catchment Management Plan that incorporates an ecosystem approach to basin management.

The specific objectives set for this Phase II are as follows:

• To help in strengthening capacity and social mobilization among the various tiers of governance in the basin



• To establish partnerships by harmonizing programmes of Federal, State and Local Governments and other key participants in the basin's land and water resources activities



• To help in restoring the normalization of flows in the basin



• To commission studies on conservation of water, soil and biodiversity in the upstream communities of infrastructure developments in the basin



• To ensure that the Project is effectively managed, monitored and evaluated, and lessons learned are documented and well disseminated

Other complementary activities being considered by the Project are:

• Planning and management of groundwater and ecosystem services in the basin; and



• Re-optimization of the Tiga and Challawa Gorge dams, irrigation systems and rehabilitating channels to restore human livelihoods and ecological functions in the Hadejia-Jama'are-Komadugu-Yobe Basin.

Donors to the KYB Project as at June 2007 are as follows:

• The DGIS of The Netherlands through IUCN-WANI programme;



• The Federal Government of Nigeria through FMAWR; and



• The LCBC through the LCBC/GEF Project.