WHAT IS CRIWMP?
Government of Sri Lanka and the Green Climate Fund as an integrated water management project in association with the cascade system which has become a World Heritage, the Climate Resilient Integrated Water Management Project (CRIWMP) or the Wew Gam Pubuduwa was commenced in the year 2017.
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River Basins
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Direct Beneficiaries
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Indirect Beneficiaries
TARGETING BENEFICIARIES:
Within selected cascades the Project will target households meeting the vulnerability criteria (one or more) for specific investments on climate smart agriculture, rainwater harvesting, community water supply programmes and flood early warning dvisories, including:
Women headed households
Young unemployed women in target villages
Households with disability or kidney disease
Conflict displaced/resettled
Flood affected in the last five years
Families with children/women displaying low nutrition (underweight/ anemic)
Households with at-risk subgroups such as children and girls (children charged with householdsduties, neglected children not attending school, girls at risk)
THE PROJECT STRATEGY
The key objective of this Project is to strengthen the resilience of smallholder farmers in the Dry Zone to climate variability and extreme events through an integrated approach to water management. This will be achieved through three outputs that build upon previous experience and best practice:
VIS Rehabilitation
Upgrading village irrigation systems and promoting climate resilient farming practices in three river basins of the Dry Zoon: USD 21.04(SLR3, 113Million)
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Safe Dirking Water
Enhancing Decentralized water supply and management solutions to provide access to safe drinking water to vulnerable communities: Budget:USD 9.9
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Disaster Management
Strengthening climate / Weather and hydrological observing, forecasting and water management systems to enhance adaptive capacity ..
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Climate Smart Agriculture
Amongst numerous activities which improve the resilience of climatic vulnerable farmers, measures to enhance the agriculture-based livelihoods of smallholder farmers have taken a very significant place.
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Other GCF Projects
The Green Climate Fund partnered with Ministry of Irrigation , Multiple Agencies, and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the International Center for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF)
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Wari Saubhagya
National Programme in which the Ministry of Irrigation is empowering the national policy Vision for Prosperity, by implementing the development of 5000 prosperity focused rural irrigation systems