Using flood control trenches to mitigate climate change impacts in Agago district

In 2018, JESE partnered with Wash Alliance International (WAI)/ WASH SDG to implement a WASH SGD in Agago Sub Catchment aimed at contributing to sustainable and equitable access to and use of inclusive WASH services by communities through the adoption and scale up of improved WASH behavioural services.

This project is being implemented in the in 15 Sub Counties and three town councils. These had very low sanitation levels.

Before the intervention, these areas had issues of shortage of safe and clean water and low latrine coverage which was resulting into open defecation and the related water borne diseases.

But that was not all. There was also a challenge of flush floods, which were destroying food crops and leading to the sinking of latrines.

To reverse the situation, JESE with the Agago district leadership, facilitated community members to create a 1.5 Km flood control trench. This has controlled the floods since the running water that would affect the gardens now gets collected into the trench.

Currently, numerous results have been registered including high crop productivity in Kamonojwii, Geregere Sub County.

Also, sanitation levels have been boosted from 12.5 % to 70 % and 06 flood prone latrines were established with due consideration to the vulnerable households (PWDs and elderly).