| SWELL - Securing Water to Enhance Local Livelihoods
Community-based
planning of multiple uses of water in partnership with service
providers
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Background |
SWELL
- Securing Water to Enhance Local Livelihoods - aims to enable improved
allocation and use of water resources for water-related livelihoods
and to help reduce poverty. The SWELL methodology is based on a
participatory process, which enables villagers, water service implementers
and enablers to gain a clearer understanding of the available water
resources and how these can be further developed and matched with
multiple uses and livelihood opportunities. The process enables
stakeholders to develop a greater and shared understanding, and
to develop strategies and plans together from a collective platform.
It has been developed by AWARD (Association for Water and Rural
Development) in the Bushbuckridge area in South Africa.
The SWELL planning process is divided into 4 phases:
- Preparation with stakeholders
- The Water and Livelihood Strategy Assessment (WLSA)
- The Village synthesis
- The Ward Synthesis and Planning
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Guide to tools |
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Short
Introduction to the methodology
By: Theo Maluleke, Vincent Thomas, Tessa Cousins, Stef Smits
and Patrick Moriarty October 2005, CGIAR, CARE, MUS PDF |
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Guidelines
for implementing a water and livelihoods planning process.
2004. Developed by the Association for Water and Rural Development
in South Africa.
Part 1 - Guidelines pdf
(1336 kB)
Part 2 - Factsheets pdf
(766 kB)
Part 3 - Appendices pdf
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Case
study: the application of SWELL in Bushbuckridge, South Africa
By: Theodora Maluleke, Tessa Cousins and Stef Smits December
2005, CGIAR, CARE, MUS PDF
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