Dzivarasekwa Environmental Restoration Through Integrated Environmental Management
1.0 The Problem
About 90% of the dwellers in Dzivarasekwa and surrounding areas live below the poverty datum line hence they live in abject poverty. these poor urban communities survive by utilizing the primary natural resources in their surroundings albeit unsustainable resulting in may environmental problems. the environmental problems bedeviling this community are manifold and have resulted in serious land degradation in particular and general deterioration of the environment. there is specifically rampant cultivation of every available land including fragile `ecosystems like stream banks, wetlands and mountain tops. this in turn has fueled soil erosion and river streams . the application of artificial fertilisers and other chemicals to the small plots to enhance productivity, culminating in the pollution of the local streams and ultimately lake Chivero. the illegal solid waste dumps are ultimately burnt and in so doing release a lot of POPs like dioxins and furans which end up affecting the health of the local population.
2.0 Project Goal
It is to halt and reverse environmental deterioration through integrated environmental management to address land degradation, water pollution, solid waste management and the release of POPs and other toxins into the environment.
3.0 Project Objectives
1. To improve health standards of the community by reducing the realse of POPs and other toxins through properly managing the liquid and solid waste
2. To re establish the ecological balances necessary for self purification of the ecosystem through managing and controlling land degradation
3. To build the capacity of the community to manage their own environment
4.0 Project Activities
1. Clearing of water drainages
2. Recording and reporting every sewer burst
3. Clearing of undesignated dumping sites and collection to transfer stations
4. Sorting of waste at transfer stations
5. Composting of bio degradable waste
6. Recovery of recoverables
7. Recycling of recoverables
8. Local authority collects final waste for the landfill
9. Lobby for designation of proper areas for sustainable urban agriculture
10. Promote the use of organic manure.
11. Building a green house
12 Reforestation and aforestation
13. Gully Filling
14. Initiate a banana and sugar cane plantation in the wetlands area
5.0 Project Results
1. Clean and safe environment
2.Improved livelihoods in the communities
3. Less disesse outbreaks
4. Sustainable waste management
5. less use of artificial fertilizers.
6. community conscious of legal implications of deforestation
7. Control of soil erosion
8 Reduced acquifer degradation
About 90% of the dwellers in Dzivarasekwa and surrounding areas live below the poverty datum line hence they live in abject poverty. these poor urban communities survive by utilizing the primary natural resources in their surroundings albeit unsustainable resulting in may environmental problems. the environmental problems bedeviling this community are manifold and have resulted in serious land degradation in particular and general deterioration of the environment. there is specifically rampant cultivation of every available land including fragile `ecosystems like stream banks, wetlands and mountain tops. this in turn has fueled soil erosion and river streams . the application of artificial fertilisers and other chemicals to the small plots to enhance productivity, culminating in the pollution of the local streams and ultimately lake Chivero. the illegal solid waste dumps are ultimately burnt and in so doing release a lot of POPs like dioxins and furans which end up affecting the health of the local population.
2.0 Project Goal
It is to halt and reverse environmental deterioration through integrated environmental management to address land degradation, water pollution, solid waste management and the release of POPs and other toxins into the environment.
3.0 Project Objectives
1. To improve health standards of the community by reducing the realse of POPs and other toxins through properly managing the liquid and solid waste
2. To re establish the ecological balances necessary for self purification of the ecosystem through managing and controlling land degradation
3. To build the capacity of the community to manage their own environment
4.0 Project Activities
1. Clearing of water drainages
2. Recording and reporting every sewer burst
3. Clearing of undesignated dumping sites and collection to transfer stations
4. Sorting of waste at transfer stations
5. Composting of bio degradable waste
6. Recovery of recoverables
7. Recycling of recoverables
8. Local authority collects final waste for the landfill
9. Lobby for designation of proper areas for sustainable urban agriculture
10. Promote the use of organic manure.
11. Building a green house
12 Reforestation and aforestation
13. Gully Filling
14. Initiate a banana and sugar cane plantation in the wetlands area
5.0 Project Results
1. Clean and safe environment
2.Improved livelihoods in the communities
3. Less disesse outbreaks
4. Sustainable waste management
5. less use of artificial fertilizers.
6. community conscious of legal implications of deforestation
7. Control of soil erosion
8 Reduced acquifer degradation
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Project Snapshot
Grantee:
Dzivarasekwa Environment Conservation Trust
Country:
Zimbabwe
Area Of Work:
Land Degradation
Grant Amount:
US$ 500.00
Co-Financing Cash:
Co-Financing in-Kind:
US$ 10,000.00
Project Number:
ZIM/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2009/07
Status:
Satisfactorily Completed
Project Characteristics and Results
Notable Community Participation
A buy in process to be implemented will ensure community participation. This process will involve consultation meetings with the communities where their awareness on environmental issues will be raised and they will be made aware of the benefits of conserving the natural resources and exploiting them sustainably as opposed to rampant depletion of the resources.
Capacity - Building Component
Capacity building trainings will be conducted in the following areas.
1. Waste sorting at transfer stations to the requirements of waste processing companies like Waste Paper Collection and Poly waste
2. Composting techniques to produce organic manure
3. Raising of Seed of indigenous tree species
4. Managing Banana and sugar cane plantations
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SGP Country office contact
Ms. Tsitsi Wutawunashe
Phone:
263-4-338846/44
Fax:
(263) 700946
Email:
Luckson Chapungu
Email:
Address
P.O. Box 4775
Harare, AFRICAN REGION, 264-4-
Harare, AFRICAN REGION, 264-4-
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