Assessing the Impacts of Eco-Hydrology Science on Water Quality, Quantity, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, and Gender Mainstreaming in Designated Project Areas

The multifaceted impacts of eco-hydrology science in selected project areas: water quality, quantity, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and gender mainstreaming.
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Last update:10 March 2024

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The ability of ecosystems to assemble carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus is mostly constrained and controlled by water. Global water challenges necessitate extensive, effective, and cooperative efforts from all humankind to prevent catastrophes in ecosystem function, biodiversity, cultural diversity, and human wellbeing, particularly for river capes. In light of global environmental and socioeconomic change, a new strategy for sustainability is urgently needed, with rising pollution and dwindling biodiversity of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems having their roots in considerable changes to hydrological cycles. Assessing the effectiveness of these projects concerning improving water quality, quantity, biodiversity, and ecosystem services is important; additionally, identifying gaps in mainstreaming gender in implementing these projects is crucial to ensure the sustainability of the water ecosystems in the project areas. The study鈥檚 objective is to review and analyze the impacts of implementing eco-hydrology science on the quality and quantity of water, ecosystem service and gender mainstreaming in selected sites in Ethiopia. Asella, Gumera catchments, Hawassa, and Jima, Ethiopia, are among the places where the study will be conducted in Eco hydrology. Science was used. Identification of key ecosystem services, socioeconomic survey, and assessment of gender mainstreaming, water quality, and quantity will be conducted during the study period. Completing the project will require 35,000 USD (Thirty-five thousand USD). The expected outcomes from the project are the efficiency, gaps in implementation, and gender mainstreaming of Eco hydrology science implementation evaluation.

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This Action is being implemented in Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on Ethiopia.

It is part of the Multi-stakeholder Coalition鈥檚 Working Group on Watershed focus for gender integration. It is intended to apply the : Implementing the collection, analysis and use of sex-disaggregated water data to inform water policies through the application of appropriate gender-responsive indicators.