But a six-year project funded by Guardian readers and Barclays, with Amref Health Africa as the principal organisation working in the community, sought to improve health services, education, livelihoods, water and sanitation, and community empowerment.
"In places where farmers have been hit by drought to the point that it's impacted their livelihoods, water has become a valued resource," said Paul Reig, senior associate of the Water Programme and Business Centre at the World Resources Institute.
Restoring these lands represents an immense opportunity to improve food security, human livelihoods, water supplies, climate stability, and natural resource management demonstrated through successful examples of restoration in Niger, Nepal, Brazil, India, and Ethiopia.
And in Ecuador, the microfinance support and training we are providing with our partners enables women to establish livelihoods that keep water sources clean for themselves and others downstream, including citizens of Quito.
My desire to set a 100% renewable by 2020 goal was strongly motivated by the alarming climate-induced degradation of the snowcapped Rwenzori mountains, from which the communities here derive their livelihood, water supply and identity.
The report presents Save the Children's work over the last year, looking at each of its priority sectors (health and nutrition, education, child protection, shelter, food security and livelihoods, and water, sanitation and hygiene) in turn.
The tendency for people to move will be associated particularly with the existence (or perception or expectation) of an increased frequency of serious and extreme weather disasters, food shortages (and associated losses of livelihoods), and water shortage.
Though some human security indicators differ between these populations, overall they reflect a relatively stable population at the time of this study, where refugees not only feel safe but also have access to land, livelihoods, clean water, shelter, and wish to remain in their newly adopted villages for many years to come.
says Menye. "There can be no development and improvement in livelihood without water".
But for people who depend on the lakes for their livelihood, lower water means lower profits.
This concept of a so-called "umbrella of care" will focus on developing and mobilizing various types of support (livelihood, microfinance, housing, water and sanitation, paralegal, self-help group initiatives, and so on) (Sekar et al. 2005, p. 49).
