What we do

Associates in the Wetland Action network  undertake a range of activities including practical implementation, research, monitoring, consultancy , with expertise to address a diversity of issues at the interface of human-wetland interactions:

Food Security, Poverty Reduction and Livelihood Development

• Enhancing sustainable wetland agriculture and water use;
• Empowerment of women in wetland management;
• Livelihood development and market analysis;
• Socio-economic analysis of wetland use;
• Protecting wetland water sources;
• Facilitating indigenous technology development and dissemination

Wetland and Catchment Integrated Management – Functional Landscape

• Participatory planning and collaborative management of wetlands and their catchments;
• Wetland restoration and rehabilitation;
• Multiple land use practices for sustainable use;
• Valley bottom and pond utilisation;
• Constructed wetlands for pollution control

Institution and Policy Development

• Local institutional capacity building for good governance;
• Stakeholder assessment and institutional analysis;
• Awareness raising and dissemination activities;
• Participatory assessment and policy development;
• Training and capacity development

Research

• Multi-stage facilitation (research – planning – implementation);
• Socio-ecological systems analysis;
• Ecosystem service assessment;
• Biodiversity assessment and environmental monitoring;
• Hydrological monitoring and modelling;
• Livelihood asset analysis;
• GIS, spatial analysis and environmental modelling
• Indigenous knowledge assessment and facilitated exchange;
• Institutional analysis