The project financed a cash-for-trees program which part of an erosion prevention activity that provided incentives for smallholders to reforest their lands in the watersheds surrounding the irrigated areas.
The project interventions will introduce the integrated watershed and landscape management approach, and facilitate the adoption of sustainable land and water management techniques and practices. The proposed interventions will increase the overall resilience of the communities to climate-related shocks. The project will have land-management options that enhance carbon sequestration and, concurrently, prevent erosion and land degradation.
The project focuses mostly on the use of terracing and protection of natural areas to reduce land degradation and provision associated benefits, such as flood risk reduction, erion control.
