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
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